Six films and a two-season series that are all sequels to the same 1973 film and almost none of which acknowledge each other.
Only the 1973 film is required reading. Everything after it is a sequel to that film specifically rather than to the one before it, so this is a menu rather than a queue, and the job is choosing which follow-up you want instead of watching all seven in a line.
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Nothing comes before it and every other title is a sequel to this one. Two cuts circulate: the 1973 theatrical version and the longer 2000 re-release subtitled The Version You've Never Seen. Either works as a first watch.
The best regarded of the sequels, written and directed by the author of the original novel and following the detective from the first film fifteen years on. It skips Exorcist II completely and loses nothing by doing so.
Ten episodes that turn out to be a direct sequel to the 1973 film, built around a reveal about who one of its characters is. It is the only follow-up that spends real time with the original family.
If you want Father Merrin's origin, take this version. Two prequels of the same story exist and this is the director's original cut, which reviewed far better than the reshot one that reached cinemas first.
Then what? Series two is a fresh possession case with the same two priests and no connection to the original film, so treat it as optional. Exorcist II: The Heretic is the one people skip, and it is worth a look only once you care enough to be curious about how badly it went. The Exorcist: Believer is the 2023 sequel to the original, and it contradicts the series over what happened to Regan MacNeil's mother, so you cannot have both. Exorcist: The Beginning is the other prequel: watch it only if you want to compare the two versions.
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