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10. The Actor Who Played The Radiographer Is A Future Murderer - The Exorcist

Early on in The Exorcist, you'll likely remember that young Regan (Linda Blair) is sent for a battery of medical tests to try and determine the cause of her increasingly erratic and concerning behaviour.

The various procedures were mimicked on-screen by actual medical personnel, including Paul Bateson, a real-life radiographer who plays the very same role throughout Regan's cerebral angiography.

But in 1979, six years after the movie's release, Bateson was convicted of murdering film journalist Addison Verrill and sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison.

Worse still, the authorities believe that Bateson may have also carried out the killings of several other gay men living in Manhattan at the time, though have never been able to prove it.

Ultimately Bateson was released on parole in 2003, and there's no public record of his whereabouts since 2008 when his parole term was completed.

This knowledge certainly makes watching the hospital sequence that much more unsettling, well aware that one of the people taking part in it murdered at least one person a few years later.