MacNeil Residence
The rented Georgetown house at 3600 Prospect Street where Regan is possessed and exorcised.
The MacNeil residence is the house in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., that Chris MacNeil rents for herself and her daughter Regan while she makes a film there. The fan wiki places it at 3600 Prospect Street, next to the stairs that drop to M Street. It is the setting of Regan's possession and exorcism in the novel and the 1973 film, and it appears again in Exorcist II: The Heretic.
Quick Facts
- Address
- 3600 Prospect Street, Georgetown (fan wiki)
- Residents
- Chris and Regan MacNeil
- Sharon Spencer
- Karl
- Willie
- Appears in
- The Exorcist (novel, 1973 film), Exorcist II: The Heretic
Facts from the source article.
Background
Chris lives there with Regan, her secretary Sharon Spencer and the household staff, Karl and Willie. Regan finds a Ouija board in the basement (a spirit board in the film) and uses it to talk to 'Captain Howdy'. Her bedroom becomes the heart of the story: it is where she is strapped to the bed, where Fathers Merrin and Karras perform the exorcism, and where Merrin dies. Burke Dennings and then Karras go out of its window and down the stone stairs below. For the film the real house was set back slightly from the steps, so the crew built an extension with a false front so that the window would overlook them. In Exorcist II Sharon gives Father Lamont a tour of the house, and the film ends with Lamont and Regan returning to it.
Source
Text adapted from MacNeil Residence on The Exorcist Wiki (Fandom, CC BY-SA 3.0). Page history: contributors. Codexery summarised the page, and this entry is shared under the same licence.
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