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Summary: A realistic horror epic a hellish masterpeice.
Review: There's not much reveiwing you can do on this powerful film.If someone were to write a review on the hole movie you could spend a very long time perhaps a lifetime reviwing it. This is a moving film on how people view this movie is what your opinon on good vrs. evil.The movie's outline is more on faith vrs.hopelessness religon vrs. chaos and hell.In the midst of all of this happning a poor 12 year old girl, and unexperienced preist who has lost all but his hope.And a man who belives in faith and the word of god but sacrifices himself to something he cannot defeat or begin to understand. All in all Peter Blattys Exorcist will test your mind to belive in faith and religon.And for your hard earned dollars your going to get a great masterpeice on dvd and a very intelligent and thought prevoking movie.And a wild ride into the closest thing your going to get to hell.A truly epic masterpeice.
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Summary: SEE IT AGAIN,AGAIN, AND AGAIN!
Review: THE EXORCIST IS THE BEST MOVIE MOVIE EVER MADE OF ALL TIME.IT DESERVES NO LESS THAN 5 STARS.IT IS A MUST SEE AND SEE AGAIN.THE WIZARD OF OZ OF ALL HORROR FILMS.IT IS THE MOTHER OF ALL HORROR FILMS.THIS IS MY ALL-TIME HORROR FAVORITE.
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Summary: Terror Based On Reality
Review: I believe the genuinely horrific effect of "The Exorcist" on the viewer (at least, on this Catholic boy!) is best explained by Blatty himself. He said the following in an interview: "The point was, if there is a Satan and he works in the world, his object principally is to make us despair by coming to despise our own humanity and thinking of ourselves as so bestial and repellent that, if there were a God, he couldn't love us. That was the moral center. That's why the possession of Regan MacNeil took place, being a struggle for the soul of Damien Karras, not the body of the little girl". In response to the interviewer stating: "That may be one reason why some people avoid The Exorcist: it seems closer to reality than most horror fiction". Blatty responds: "That is very much a part of it. Some people don't want to be subjected to that kind of experience, because this is terror based on reality --- at least, I believe it is. I don't think of The Exorcist as a horror tale at all. It's frightening but quite real. Its power to frighten derives from its credibility. And there was the unavoidable obscenity of The Exorcist. Newsweek, in its review of the novel, said: 'The Exorcist is obscene in the highest possible sense. It restores the proper meaning to the word 'obscenity'" --- which was to make you aware of something that should not be, that has no right to exist. When you are made aware of that, it's laudable. So one never reveled, hopefully, in the vulgarity in the film, because it was set in its proper context: something not to be desired". In conclusion, I would say that the ones upon whom this film did not have the same deeply disturbing impact seem to fall roughly into two categories: those who simply do not believe in God, therefore Satan, in the first place, and as a result dismiss the credibility of which Blatty speaks, and those who have become emotionally-numbed by the myriad post-Exorcist hyper-violent action/horror films, for whom "The Exorcist" is just another piece of software to be consumed and forgotten. Some surely have a foot in both camps.
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Summary: THE EXORCIST
Review: THIS MOVIE IS PRETTY GOOD. BUT A BIT OVERATED. IT IS NOT THAT GREAT. PRETTY GOOD FOR A 70'S FLICK
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Summary: Desert Island DVD
Review: The DVD reproduction is excellent! The video and audio are both crisp and clean due to an outstanding remastering effort--all DVDs should have this much care given to them in the digital transfer process! The story of course remains the same, but what will really enlighten all of you who have been haunted by this film since it debuted in the early 70s, is that the 70 minute documentary adds context and perspective that is both edifying and exceedingly entertaining...kind of brings you down from the andrenaline surge after the film is over. If you haven't seen the film yet, this will be an added treat, and will help realize that the monster is not the little girl with the revolving head, but the man who's lost his faith. This is not a story meant to proselytize folks to Christianity (as the director is not a Christian), but illuminates deeper truths that plague humans of all walks and creeds.
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Summary: Classic horror, and more...
Review: I am a die hard horror fan, and therefore had to own this one. I would have to say that I have seen films that were more frightening, but few that strike so dirrectly at such a common social nerve. The film moves slowly at first, but when it takes off, look out! For me, however, the best part was all of the extras on this DVD. The documentary alone was worth the purchase. The sound is finnally worth listening to, and there deleted scenes that are not to be missed! A must-own for horror fans.
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Summary: True classic!
Review: Theres not a lot of words to describe this horror classic except...Scary! Although it never actually scared me I hear so many reviews saying how bad it was. They have re-released THE EXORCIST now here in Britain(About time too) and it is one film that definately belongs on my video shelf.
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Summary: Scare Tactics Marred By Overbearing Illogic
Review: Friedkin's cinema classic was, for me, little more than a collection of razzle dazzle threaded by a relatively thin plot. Out to settle some sort of vendetta, a demon holds a girl hostage in apparent hopes of luring an elderly priest he encountered years earlier in a Middle Eastern archaeological excavation. And what sort of role does he have in mind for the girl? It seems he doesn't. Rather, he hurls himself inside the body of the innocent bystander and turns her into some sort of parody of a spastic circus freak. The child becomes functionless. The Exorcist is certainly a better movie than the many budget horror flicks preceding it but, like them, it strays too far from logic and believability. If Satan is to be feared, his threat should make at least a little sense. Why is the demon doing this to her? That is, what does such action accomplish? Visualize the entire population in such a state. Is this Lucifer's goal? The movie demands additional gullibility when Regan's head spins a full revolution without snapping her neck. That's just plain nonsense. I understand there was a dispute over the use of this scene. Friedkin should have dropped it. The episode of the attempted exorcism itself is long and banal. Besides, if Lucifer can miraculously spin a girl's head around without killing her, why can't he simply vaporize his two adversaries and be done with it? Yet amid such turbulent evil power, a mere splash of holy water succeeds in delivering a blow to the creature. Really now. That sort of hogwash parallels the notion that a cross will kill a vampire. The film did manage to generate a moment of disturbance when Regan tormented her mother. But even there, the result was more depressive than horrifying. I indeed felt a hurt for her mother, but experienced only a feeble moment of shock and no notable sense of fear. For me, the best ingredients of this movie was its cast. My favorite episode is, ironically, the final one. Noteworthy is Cobb's brilliant rendering of the police lieutenant and the unusual predicament he faces at its conclusion. Good ending, okay movie. Popcorn works well with the flick, but stay away from soup.
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Summary: The Exorcist
Review: A film which was banned - was there any reason? Looking at this film again (superbly made for DVD)I find it a mixed bag. On one hand I think it is a great film about relationships with some brilliant performances - the only thing is that I don't find it very scary. Perhaps it is that I am not religious in any way so the shocks that are implied through the demonic imagery now just look dated. The Exorcist is not as scary as the Omen, or indeed the Blair Witch Project - but watch the Flash trailer on DVD - it's scarier than the entire film. This is not to say that I did not enjoy the film, but it is not for the reasons why I usually like horror films.
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Summary: Still in Awe
Review: I saw this film as a young man and it still is one of the only movies that sends chills up my spine. This is true classic.
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