Father Lankester Merrin (Novel: c.1892-1971;Film: c.1896-1975) is a fictional character in the novel, The Exorcist (1971), and its film adaptation, The Exorcist (1973). He was born in Holland, the son of a Dutch father and an English mother. Merrin, an elderly priest on an archeological dig in Iraq, finds a statue of the demon Pazuzu, with whom he had previously wrestled many years ago while on an exorcism in Africa. Other than in the...
Father Merrin explains from within what he was doing in the world, and is doi...
In her dreams, Regan sees Father Merrin in Africa as he questions the relatio...
Dr. Tuskin is using her machine to take Father Lamont into Regan's dreams of ...
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