The Exorcist

[wembley]

What do you think of this 1973 movie starring Linda Blair?

[stud1al]

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I quite like Linda Blair but the movie's overrated in my opinion.

[Richard1978]

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Quite a bit of it's reputation seems to come from it being "forbidden fruit" as it wasn't available on video.

A Clockwork Orange & Driller Killer had a similar reputation.

[Vegasqueen1970]

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When the Exorcist was shown in our local cinema all those years ago, people were protesting outside at the showing of it and the local paper reported an ambulance being called for someone who fainted in the cinema.

[Hooper68]

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I first saw it on a pirate video in the eighties and it terrified me,I still think that its a brilliant movie and have got the blu ray version but horror films don't scare me any more and I'm still waiting for one to terrify me like the Exorcist or Jaws did in my younger days.

[darren]

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I first saw it on a pirate video in the eighties and it terrified me,I still think that its a brilliant movie and have got the blu ray version but horror films don't scare me any more and I'm still waiting for one to terrify me like the Exorcist or Jaws did in my younger days.

its scary all right mate.
still scares me a bit and im 36.

as u get older get immune to being scared
Have u seen the first amityville film.
its scary.
in fact all 3 are.

[vanhelsing]

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Demon possession (never mind reality and indepth research) has a lot of potential for horror fiction (had a go at demon possession myself) and film making (Evil Dead anybody?). I reckon it only got banned because of waht Linda Blair does with the crucifix and as therre might be kids doing research into history for school on this forum/site I won't go into what she does and says with t. As for A Clockwork Orange, like Reswervoir Dogs, I was led to beleive it was violence all the way through but when I actually saw it I was thinking loudly at the ends IS THAT ALL??? in disappointment

[vanhelsing]

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its scary all right mate.
still scares me a bit and im 36.

as u get older get immune to being scared
Have u seen the first amityville film.
its scary.
in fact all 3 are.

You want scary?
Try:-
Writing Horror/fantasy fiction at midnight.
No lights on

I tried it myself but had to stop becuase the above and the music I was listening to was makingh me too paranoid.

[HG]

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You want scary?
Try:-
Writing Horror/fantasy fiction at midnight.
No lights on

I tried it myself but had to stop becuase the above and the music I was listening to was makingh me too paranoid.

How can you write with no lights on?

[darren]

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How can you write with no lights on?

i think he uses candle light or the light the tv gives off.

does sound scary though.

[victorbrunswick]

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When I was in high school our English teacher, a former Catholic priest, showed The Exorcist as our end of the school year treat! Actually we all liked him cause he had a pretty good sense of humour.

[stud1al]

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You want scary? Take a look at my photo

[sf1378]

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The films really boring. However, the notion of demonic possession is something I believe in and my parents have seen for real way back when on a few occassions. I think the fear the film created in cinemas was psychological as the 'air' of fear breeds fear and hysteria. I've heard of st Johns Ambulance staff literally lining the walls of auditoriums playing the film in 73....when I saw Blair Witch Project there was only a few in the cinema but when the film ended everyone stayed for the end credits-in total silence-it was because some were scared and it bred more fear in us so we all sat there til the credits ended.

[philipdalton]

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The thing I find most puzzling about this film is that I've heard many people fainted during a scene in which she was in hospital having a needle stuck in her neck. Can anyone please explain to me why that would cause people to faint?

[DemonEyeX]

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The thing I find most puzzling about this film is that I've heard many people fainted during a scene in which she was in hospital having a needle stuck in her neck. Can anyone please explain to me why that would cause people to faint?

Well, a lot of people (including myself) are not too fond of needles.
I can happily watch a slasher film no problemo, but if there's a scene involving giving blood or injecting heroin I have to turn away.

On the subject of The Exorcist.
I first saw the film on satellite TV, dubbed in German in the late 80s.
As i'm sure many of you will remember, the movie was unavailable in the UK for many years, so just getting to see it, in any language was a biggy back then.
Then a year or so later I bought a bootleg VHS, in it's original language.
Then I was lucky enough to find the original UK VHS release in a charity shop in the mid 90s.
So by the time it was released on DVD I was more than familiar with it.

However, one night, my friend & I decided to watch the movie again, having both watched it many times before.
But for some unknown reason, on this particular viewing me & my friend were both scared to bits !
No idea why, but when the movie ended we both sat in silence for 10 minutes or so, then he said to me -
"Dude, I dunno why but that scared the @£%* out of me"
I completely agreed with him. Even though we knew exactly what to expect it just totally freaked us out.
No idea what happened that night, but for some unknown reason it really got to us.

Also, in my home town there was a priest outside the cinema during the original screening.