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Summary: SCARY AS HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This is one of those movies that will haunt you for a very long time,not one to be watched alone at night,saw the spider scene for the first time,very freaky stuff.One of the best horror movies ever made.How could they compare the Blair Witch to this.There is no comparison!
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Summary: SCARIEST MOVIE EVER
Review: Trust me: there's been a lot of contenders, a lot of pretenders. But this is the most frightening movie ever made. As an underage kid, I snuck into the movie theater to see this and it freaked me out so bad I couldn't sleep alone for 3 months!
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Summary: The benchmark of horror
Review: Before there was "The Blair Witch", there was "The Exorcist". This is one of those things best enjoyed (if that's the right word) in broad daylight, like Stephen King's book "The Stand". Some bits I recall scaring the heck out of me... Grinning demon statue and hellish insect buzzing at the Iraqi archeological dig, with dogs tearing each other apart. Sudden, loud bumps coming from Ellen Burstyn's attic. Ghastly blue faces that appear for a half-second. Linda Blair rearing up in Satanic vengeance to strike at Max Von Sydow. And, worst of all, the original theatrical previews, featuring a sickening series of strobe-like black and white images of the priests and the demon child in mid-exorcism. This is the stuff that resides in your basement, under your bed, and in the depths of a darkened room. This film plays havoc with the rational, and Evil never seemed so, well, evil.
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Summary: Blair Witch, Scarry? Hah!
Review: Not to take anything away from the Blair Witch Project, it is a thrilling movie, but it's as scarry as "There's Something About Mary" compared to William Peter Blatty's and William Friedkin's "The Exorcist.""The Exorcist" doesn't just come out and scare, it slowly builds, making you think things are alright; challenging your intelligence to believe that everything is in the mind, and then captures you until you are experiencing exactly what the characters are experiencing. Is this fair? Yes. It's also great filmmaking.
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Summary: One Of The Best Horror Movies Of All Time
Review: This movie is one of the most terrifying horror movies in year to come. when this movie came out in 1973, it spooked movie-goers eveywhere. No kiddding! By watching it you'll see what i mean. This movie is on of the best Classic horror movies of all time. It can be compared to Halloween, The Shining, A Nightmare On Elm Street, etc.
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Summary: Amazon: "One of the most frightening films ever made"???
Review: This movie is extremely overrated. It moves tooslowly. Regan(who's scared of a 12 year old?) is more funny than scarywith her outbursts. For those of you who find it so scary, you obviously haven't seen many horror movies. Amityville 2: The Possession is a MUCH, MUCH better version of possession. Case closed.
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Summary: Holy Moly!!!
Review: I just recently bought the 25th Anniversary edition. I had never seen the spider scene before. TOTALLY CREEPY!!!!!
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Summary: Truly Frightening
Review: I watched this movie with a friend of mine, and I wasn't expecting much. I figured that hey, this is the ninties, and we're pretty much desensitized to everything, so nothing from the seventies could scare us. And the slow beginning of the movie wasn't convincing us otherwise. But soon enough we were both screaming and turning away from the screen. As others have mentioned, some scenes are hard to watch, but they are so shocking that you don't want to look away. Though the effects aren't completely seamless, something about the way they are handled makes it seem real, like you're watching a documentuary. The priest is an interesting character, and adds a skeptic's point of view to the reasons for Regan's behavior. You sympathize with him, and his feelings of guilt over his treatment of his mother. I'm sure that many people will mock the movie, and the somewhat dated effects, but those people weren't planning to enjoy the movie in the first place. I recommend the Exorcist for people who are tired of horror films with teenagers goring each other after sex, and I suggest watching it with a group of people. You don't want to watch this movie by yourself.
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Summary: Modern Cinematic Mastery
Review: Roger Ebert said he could not be completely sure exactly what kind of movie The Exorcist was or what genre - other than horror - director William Friedkin was trying to achieve, but that, for whatever type of movie it is, it is one of the best of its kind ever made. Although I've seen the movie more than 100 times since the age of 10, although I know almost every shot and almost every line in the movie and although this remains my hands-down favorite film, I can't find a better summation of The Exorcist anywhere. I suppose it's easy to loosen the wrist a little, flutter the hand in the air and wave off The Exorcist as an extreme way to generate revenue. For its time, the movie - made for $10 million - was particularly expensive. But, also for its time, the movie out-grossed just about every other film ever released until then. If you can say anything about The Exorcist and its success, it's that this movie established the bottom-line bar for a movie's profit potential - that, at least for the next 10 years, for high-budget movies to do well, their revenue had to reach The Exorcist levels. And, to this day, that's not easy. For a horror movie to establish that bar and come out with Oscar nominations, Golden Globes, critical raves and condemnation was no small accomplishment. If anything, I can say The Exorcist is, in my opinion, the best high-budget, wide-appeal movie ever made - surely one of the most intelligent, one of the most gripping, one of the most memorable and, ultimately, one of the hardest to sit through. It says a lot to me that people didn't write off the first 45 minutes of the movie, with its exposition and quietness, saying there was no point behind it at all. And, though I've thought about it in different ways over the years, I've come to the conclusion that this movie is not supposed to answer all the questions it raises ... either about plot or about the substance of the topics of religion, spirituality, evil and the casting out of evil. The movie, if nothing else, begins and ends subtly conveying a sense of darkness and, to some degree, despair. Yet borne into all that darkness is a strange sense that something transcending this power of evil - be that evil the devil or an ancient spirit or a very human mental-emotional or electro-chemical imbalance - has the ability not just to exist but to actually stem the tide of that evil. It's not just, as Friedkin says in the 25th anniversary introduction, a story about "the mystery of faith." It is about the reality that, even without faith, a human being still has demons to deal with, be they good, bad or neutral. Of course, it may not be fair to throw such weight on top of a film. Linda Blair herself has said she didn't understand why people reacted the way they did - "it's a movie." And Lord knows Friedkin and author/producer/screenwriter/Oscar-winner William Peter Blatty have profited financially from this jumble of horrific detail, despair and profanity. It can also safely be predicted that any movie like The Exorcist wouldn't - couldn't - incite the same type of response from the movie-going public that the original did. We already know what that kind of detail is about. What makes The Exorcist so engaging is that the horror is unswerving, unrelenting and unformatted. There's very little music to warn you that a terrifying scene is about to ensue. When Chris MacNeil sees Lt. Kinderman to her door and latches the door shut after he leaves, you cannot predict that, as she walks away from the door, she's about to experience such severe violence as watching her daughter viciously thrust a crucifix into her blood-tainted vagina and then having her own face held into that bloody void and then socked to the floor. There's no forewarning. Nothing indicates that, after challenging the demon to identify his late mother's maiden name, Father Kerras is about to be shelled by a mouthful of vomit. And, among the most mesmeric of scenes in this movie, instead of music accompanying the slow march of the priests, Merrin and Kerras, up the stairs toward Regan's bedroom to begin the dreaded exorcism, the slow groans of the demon behind the bedroom door provide a spine-chilling cadence for the march. Their walk, the coldness of the thin-lighting in the hallway, the tears and despondency in Chris MacNeil's eyes ... it's almost like "Taps": the march toward certain death. You, the viewer, are waiting to die. Every time I see it, I learn something new about The Exorcist: the extent of evil illuminated on screen, the shards of darkness and light competing against each other, the grubbiness of the hospital where Mother Kerras has been taken, the blistering of the sun in northern Iraq, the brightness of the reds and marble in the Georgetown cathedral, Regan's cracked lower lip, the eye-twitching blood test and X-ray processes (actually harder to sit through than any of the horror scenes), the look of confusion on the astronaut's face when Regan tells him "you're gonna die up there," the ever-growing emotional chasm in Kerras' face throughout the movie, the humanity of the entire story. This movie is a lot like choreography: you move to its rhythm, timing and routine. The more open-minded you are when you begin watching, the better rewarded you are when Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" theme begins as the shot of Father Dyer walking away from the top of the steps, with the office buildings of Rosslyn, Va., in the distance, fades out. I guess that's what one would refer to as a modern classic.
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Summary: A Very Good movie!
Review: This is a very good movie. I watched it for the first time today. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. Linda Blair does an absolutely outstanding job. There are parts that are difficult to watch, like when she stabs herself in her privates with the cross. It is a very good movie, however parts of it are silly like when the demon says "Keep Away the sow is mine!" Definetly worth seeing.
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