Merrin

Lankester Merrin - In The Film
... Merrin's depiction in the 1973 film The Exorcist is faithful to the novel ... The character of Merrin reappears in the sequel Exorcist II The Heretic (1977), in extended flashbacks detailing an exorcism he performed in Africa following the Second World War ... Both films revisit Merrin's experiences in Africa immediately prior to his first exorcism, but each presents a different version of the events and neither agrees with the events as presented in Exorcist II ...

Dominion: Prequel To The Exorcist - Plot
... before the events in The Exorcist, the young Father Lankester Merrin (played by Skarsgård, who played the same part in Exorcist The Beginning) travels to East Africa ... Merrin has taken a sabbatical from the Church and devoted himself to history and archaeology as he struggles with his shattered faith ... of the war, a sadistic Nazi SS commander, in retaliation for the murder of a German trooper, forces Merrin to participate in arbitrary executions in order to save a full village from slaughter ...

List Of Septimus Heap Characters - Other Important Characters - Merrin Meredith
... Introduced in Magyk, Merrin Meredith is a boy who was mistaken for Septimus and was apprenticed to DomDaniel ... circumstance had it that her own son, Merrin, was taken away by DomDaniel and the real Septimus ended up in the Young Army ... After his apprenticeship, Merrin is continuously looked down by DomDaniel who always expects him to do brilliant magic (thinking him to be Septimus ...

Lankester Merrin - In The Novel
... Merrin, an elderly priest on an archeological dig in Iraq, finds images of the demon Pazuzu and subsequently experiences other unusual phenomena ... Merrin does not appear again until much later in the novel, when he joins the protagonist, Father Damien Karras, in Washington D.C ... Merrin, who has a heart condition for which he takes nitroglycerin, dies during the ritual, leaving the inexperienced Karras to complete the exorcism himself ...

The Exorcist (film) - Plot
... dig in Northern Iraq, archaeologist Father Lankester Merrin (Max von Sydow) visits a site where a silver Roman Catholic medallion along with a small stone amulet resembling a grimacing, bestial creature are found ... Merrin, an experienced exorcist, is summoned to Georgetown to perform the exorcism, with Karras assisting ... Merrin requests that he and Karras take a break, whereby he administers to himself the viaticum, a sign of his impending doom at the hands of the demon ...