Shortly after its premiere, Sir John Boorman went back to re-cut the film in response to poor audience reactions, although this version fared no better. Boorman shortened and changed the order of certain scenes, deleted lines of dialogue, changed some musical cues, and added an introduction with narration by Richard Burton, and cutting all footage of Burton after his character, Father Lamont, fights Regan's doppelganger, cutting immediately to the end credits after Regan walks out of the rubble of the townhouse. This gives audiences the impression that Father Lamont dies during the climax. The only other significant change of the recut ending is that Sharon's death is not shown, leaving the viewer presuming that she survived at the end of the film. The major plot, though, is not significantly different between the two versions of the film. The version is known as the director's recut and, for a long time, was only available on VHS until Shout Factory released it on Blu-ray alongside the theatrical cut in a special collector's edition.

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