[Magdalen] The Exorcist at Ascension Chicago

[Scott Knitter]

I've made a slide show of screen captures from last night's episode,
from scenes filmed at Ascension. The church and Order of St Anne
convent premises are playing the role of the Convent of Our Lady of
Mercy, apparently OSB.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3051739/Exorcist-Scenes-at-Ascension.pdf

On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow! Our church and the OSA convent are an abbey of Benedictine women.
> The exorcist (played by Ben Daniels) knocks at our front church door,
> looking for the abbess. The nun who answers seems not to have any
> trouble opening it; maybe they fixed it so it doesn't scrape against
> the top step? But I've used it since that filming...maybe they just
> took out the scraping sound and put in a creak instead. They also
> added a lot of greenery to the garden; it's amazing what can be done
> with CGI (or maybe just extra plantings).
>
> Haven't watched all of last night's episode yet.
>
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The first scenes filmed at our church premises will be seen in this
>> Friday night's episode of the Fox network's The Exorcist. They've been
>> back three further times to film there. Geena Davis was on location
>> last time (at least)! Their trailers took up a whole block of Clark
>> Street.
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> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA



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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA