The Exorcist - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

This film’s title character, who appears at an archaeological dig in Iraq in the opening scene, was played by Max von Sydow, a frequent collaborator of Ingmar Bergman. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this 1973 horror film directed by William Friedkin. In this film, the priest Lankester Merrin rids the young girl Regan MacNeil of her demonic possession.

ANSWER: The Exorcist

[10m] Friedkin’s decision to insert flashes of the demon’s face was inspired by jarring shots from Night and Fog, Alain Resnais’s (“reh-NAY’s”) documentary on this subject. Claude Lanzmann made a nine-hour documentary about this subject.

ANSWER: the Holocaust [or the Shoah; or the concentration camps; accept descriptions of the genocide of Jews in Europe during World War II or equivalents; prompt on World War II or WWII; prompt on genocide] (Lanzmann’s film is Shoah.)

[10h] This film’s depiction of a resurrection inspired Friedkin to show the actual exorcism. In this 1955 film by Carl Theodor Dreyer, the seemingly mad Messianic figure Johannes brings Inger back to life after she dies in childbirth.

ANSWER: Ordet [or The Word]

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California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	33%	67%	33%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	14.00	90%	30%	20%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	12.00	40%	60%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	10.00	78%	11%	11%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	11.25	75%	25%	13%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	15.71	100%	43%	14%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	16.25	88%	75%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%

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Berkeley A	Berkeley C	10	10	10	30
Berkeley D	Stanford B	0	0	0	0
McGill B	McMaster A	10	0	0	10
McGill A	McMaster B	0	0	0	0
Toronto E	Carleton University	10	0	0	10
Western C	Toronto F	10	0	0	10
Guelph	UBC A	10	10	10	30
UBC B	Toronto D	10	0	0	10
Waterloo B	Western A	10	0	0	10
Simon Fraser	Toronto Metropolitan	10	10	0	20
Toronto B	Toronto G	10	10	0	20
Waterloo A	Toronto C	10	0	10	20
Central Florida C	Central Florida A	10	10	10	30
Central Florida B	Florida B	10	0	0	10
Florida A	Florida C	10	0	0	10
Michigan State	Michigan A	0	10	0	10
CWRU A	Michigan B	0	0	0	0
Ohio State A	CWRU B	10	0	0	10
Ohio State B	Pittsburgh	10	10	0	20
Ohio State C	Michigan C	0	10	10	20
Duke	North Carolina C	10	0	0	10
VCU	North Carolina A	10	0	0	10
Liberty C	North Carolina B	10	0	0	10
NC State A	South Carolina B	10	10	10	30
South Carolina A	Virginia	10	0	0	10
Wake Forest	James Madison A	0	0	0	0
Liberty B	William and Mary	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	James Madison B	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech B	NC State B	10	0	0	10
Illinois B	Chicago B	10	0	0	10
Chicago C	Indiana A	10	10	0	20
Chicago D	Indiana C	0	0	0	0
Chicago E	Northwestern B	10	0	0	10
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Purdue A	Northwestern D	10	0	0	10
Chicago A	Notre Dame A	10	10	10	30
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Brown	Bowdoin A	10	0	0	10
Brandeis A	Bowdoin B	10	10	10	30
Dartmouth B	Brandeis B	10	0	0	10
MIT	Dartmouth A	10	10	0	20
Harvard A	Yale	10	10	0	20
Carleton College	Claremont	10	0	0	10
Minnesota A	Missouri B	10	0	0	10
Washington A	Georgia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Missouri A	Washington B	10	0	0	10
Texas A&M A	Murray State A	10	0	0	10
Texas A	Texas B	10	10	0	20
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Louisville A	Tennessee B	10	0	0	10
WashU B	Mississipi State	10	10	0	20
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Birmingham	Edinburgh A	10	0	0	10
Cambridge A	Manchester	10	0	0	10
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Southampton A	Oxford C	10	10	0	20
Warwick B	Imperial B	10	0	0	10
Georgetown	Catholic	10	10	0	20
Columbia A	NYU A	10	10	0	20
Swarthmore	Columbia B	10	0	0	10
Rutgers A	Columbia C	10	10	0	20
John Jay	Johns Hopkins A	10	10	0	20
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