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Summary: Help Me.
Review: This film is still gripping today as it was 26 years ago. It's dated now, but the subject matter is not. Great story, performances and directing. Absolutely a must have for any film collector. As far as the genre of horror goes, this is a cornerstone and landmark film.
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Summary: You can't get better than this
Review: I hadn't seen The Exorcist in years, and bought it on DVD since it was a classic. Turns out, this is the best DVD in my small but growing collection! The picture is beautiful, and the sound is awesome. Besides the brilliant movie itself, the extras go above and beyond with this set. TWO commentary tracks (one by the director, and one by the author/screenwriter), interviews, The Making Of which is very insightful, storyboards,... there is so much it takes both sides of the disc! You will not be disappointed by this title - especially for the price! You will get many hours of enjoyment from this; especially if it scares you!
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Summary: One of the all time greatest.
Review: I saw this film as a child and didn't understand a frame of it, but was terrified to the point of crying nonetheless. For years after that I loved the film, but for some reason always grouped it in with trashy horror films. It wasn't until I watched it again as an adult that I realised what a brilliantly crafted piece of work it actually is. This film walks a line, where it could have been absolutely appallingly bad, but I think because the film focus' on humanity and the human spirit it is triumphant. The DVD release IS the best i have ever purchased. It has everything you could want on this film, the picture quality is brilliant and so is the sound. Overall a top notch film done justice by a perfect edition.
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Summary: This movie is just too creepy!
Review: THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE SCARIEST MOVIE EVER IN THE HISTORY OF HISTORY'S SCARY MOVIES! FOR IT'S TIME IT IS UTTERLY FRIGHTNING! I PROBALEY SHOULDN'T SEEN THE BEHIND-THESCENES BEFORE I SAW THE MOVIE! I WOULD HAVE BEEN A LITTLE MORE SCARED!
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Summary: The Exorcist
Review: I've never really been much of a fan of horror films because I've never been able to suspend my belief long enough to let a monster scare me. To me psychological demons are much more effective than overdone makeup jobs. I prefer The Haunting with Claire Bloom, or The Shining with Jack Nicholson. But the all-time classic has got to be The Exorcist. One of the reasons The Exorcist always scares the bejesus out of me is because it treats an epistemological subject very seriously, even when the one character you'd expect to step forth willingly, young priest Father Karras (Jason Miller), does his best to dissuade Ellen Burstyn that her daughter is possessed by a demon. Of course, by that time Karras has already confessed to a fellow priest that he's started to lose his own faith because he realizes that the problems he has to deal with of his congregation are too much for one man, especially a man who keeps neglecting his own mother during the last days of her life. I think one of the reasons this is such a successful film is that the concept of a demon is treated as intangibly as our imagination's reach: How WOULD the devil deal with us if confronted? By reading each of our souls, finding whatever carefully hidden secrets there are and spewing them back in our faces as spiritual ammunition. Not only that, but when you see Regan (Linda Blair) in the opening scenes gently horseplaying around with her mother and her sister, the charm and goodness she radiates leaves you completely floored when she finally does become possessed and turns into a creature so horrible that you forget all about Regan. The lynchpin is having Max von Sydow cast as the aging priest who comes to finish off the work that Father Karras has started. Von Sydow who has been Ingmar Bergman's spiritual warrior for so many of his films dealing with the epistemological nature of the universe. And credit must go to Mercedes McCambridge for supplying the voice of the demon. I think The Exorcist is one of the best "lit" and photographed films of all time. The use of shadow is brilliant; very low key (simple things like showing a lit hall, yet having the far stairway at the END of the hall not lit...very subtly eerie stuff) yet incredibly evocative. I mean, the shadows damn near have colors. Director of Photography Owen Roizman, whose work can be seen in "The Addams Family" and "Grand Canyon," shot "The Exorcist." Roizman's credits include such famous titles as "The French Connection," "Network," "Tootsie," "Three Days of the Condor," "The Electric Horseman" and "Havana." In a movie that took 180 days to make (three times the average), the exorcism alone took three months-and on some of those days the crew felt lucky to get one shot. That was because director William Friedkin wanted to make it visually clear that the satanic spirit inside the possessed girl had made the room unbearably cold. A refrigerated set representing her bedroom was constructed on a sound stage, and air conditioners worked all night to lower its temperature to 40 degrees below zero. "When we set up the lights in the morning, that would raise the temperature to around zero, which was necessary if we were going to be able to see the frost on the actor's breath," Roizman explained. "We also kept the humidity very high. It was an unbelievably uncomfortable way to work." Look closely using stop-action laserdisc to reveal the flash-frames of Satan's face, which Friedkin inserted almost subliminally at two places, and to reveal a subtle double-exposure in which the evil spirit seems to peer out through Blair's eyes. There are semi-subliminal single-frame shots in this film: when the priest is dreaming of his mother coming up out of the subway, there is a single frame shot of a face (Eileen Dietz), painted black and white, grimacing. There are two other places where this image is supposedly displayed: when Regan, lying on the bed, turns to look at Father Merrin and Father Karras, and just after the head-turning scene. Do not watch this alone.
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Summary: THE EXORCIST
Review: I was very terrified when i watched the movie and it really imperssed me with it's filming and and production. I have seen it's documentery,and compering it with the film, very fascinating. It is a movie that brought up a true story of the unixpected.
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Summary: THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE!
Review: This is the best movie ever made!From beginning to end it's as scary as hell! I am one of the lucky people who have the limited box set with the book and cd soundtrack and much more... I look through it every day. From the first time i saw this movie ( 20 years ago ) until now it gets me every time! Great actors, great special effects, GREAT MOVIE!
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Summary: The Horror That Is...
Review: The Exorcist - Possibly the only film ever made that terrifies you and moves you, all at once. A superb soundtrack, Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells for a start, and a very powerful performance from the young Linda Blair as the demon-possessed Regan, and set of petrifying sequences...the head rotation, the crucifix masturbation and the final exorcism...gripping stuff.
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Summary: NOT SCARY AT ALL. EXTREMELY OVERRATED
Review: All my life I have heard about "The Exorcist" and how terrifying it was. I recently bought it on dvd and was very disappointed. There were only a couple of interesting scenes involving Linda Blair. The rest was very boring. This movie was probably seen as scary when it first came out, but anyone my age who is 18-24 and grew up watching "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "Hellraiser", "Phantasm", etc, will not like this movie. Im not saying that a horror movie has to be very graphic, because I do like the lesss graphic movies like Bram Stoker's Dracula and the original Frankenstein, but The Exorcist is not worth your money if you are looking for a good scare. The Exorcist is honestly the most boring movie I have ever seen. If you really want to be scared, check out the Phantasm series- particularly part 3.
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Summary: pretty good
Review: this movie was scary but it took like an hour and a half for it to get scary.but still a great movie.
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