The Possession of Joel Delaney - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[leo]

This movie was bashed by critics upon release due to a scene in which a young boy is forced to strip. In a 2004 Entertainment Weekly article, author Stephen King cited the movie while addressing issues of censorship. King said had this movie been released today, it would be rated NC-17 for that scene alone.

[carl]

Shirley MacLaine turned down the lead female role in The Exorcist (1973) in order to make this movie.

[bryan]

Erika's (Lovelady Powell's) house and office is decorated with African ceremonial masks and statues: a foreshadowing this movie's voodoo theme.

[toni]

Pre-dating the release of The Exorcist (1973), this movie is considered amongst genre fans to be one of the first movies to deal with the theme of possession.

[mathew]

The first movie starring role for Perry King (Joel Delaney).

[aaron]

Perry King credited Shirley MacLaine for helping him with his performance in this movie. Being only his second movie role, MacLaine took the budding yet serious young actor under her wing during the production.

[miriam]

The Benson's dog, Clancy, is a Labrador Retriever.

[christina]

Appropriately enough, Joel (Perry King) sings the theme from The Twilight Zone (1959) as he leads his party out into the street to "conjure" up Sherry's (Barbara Trentham's) missing earring.

[chad]

The actual New York City Public Library was used for the scene where Norah (Shirley MacLaine) looks up the news stories of Tonio Pérez's (José Fernández's) murder spree. Actual patrons served as extras during the sequence.