the EXORCIST (1973)

[RCMerchant]

Still one of the best horror films ever made.
Though lotsa folks think it's boring! Or they just won't watch it.
Tiana and me just rewatched it again the other night.
Never gets old.

[claws]

One of the greatest horror movies ever made. So glad you didn't post this in the bad movies forum   

[Trevor]

Another classic film banned by our dumbass censors 

The sequels were also banned.

[retrorussell]

When I get into a conversation with someone about the 10 greatest horror films ever made, this always comes up #1 for me.  The sheer audacity of the film..!  A little girl saying such incredible filth.. shovin' her mom's face in her womanhood after stabbing it with a crucifix.. holy crap, and this is from the seventies!

Also, the part when the girl says (in the dead guy's voice) "Do you know what she did?  Your c**ting daughter??", I just was stunned silent!  What the hell did I just watch?!

Love this flick.

[Gabriel Knight]

I will never forget my first time watching the infamous "crab girl going down the stairs": we were with a bunch of friends from the school, we had like, 13 at the time. All was jokes and laughs until that damn scene came up - it was instant silence from everyone. I almost shat my pants. I haven't watched it in ages so memory can be a tricky thing, tho...

[Allhallowsday]

Definitely THE EXORCIST holds up as one of the greatest Horror films made, and is a masterpiece. 

[Svengoolie 3]

The scene of the vaguely "ape in kiss makeup" creature in the dark was maybe the scariest. It was the true face of the demon possessing her,  Pazuzu.


https://exorcist.fandom.com/wiki/Pazuzu

[bob]

fantastic film, which holds up very well

I own the Extended Director's Cut of The Exorcist on bluray

[Svengoolie 3]

Dig this:

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[The Burgomaster]

This and ROSEMARY'S BABY are the cream of the crop.

[Trevor]

Dig this:

https://the-line-up.com/paul-bateson

  Yikes!

[Rev. Powell]

I think it's boring for about the first half hour. Then it rips.

ROSEMARY'S BABY has a similar thing going on.

[Paquita]

I read the book when I was 11 and saw the movie when I was 12.  I was really intrigued by it because I kept hearing how everyone thought it was so shocking and scary.  I wasn't really shocked by the movie, but maybe it's because the book was a little more detailed.  Plus I was 12 and trying to push my limits.  I couldn't imagine letting my daughter read or watch The Exorcist at her age now (almost 11) though.  Weird how that works. 

On a slightly related note, I recently learned that, if I got it right, in Mesopotamian culture, the demon pazuzu was actually not evil.  He is supposed to be super ugly, but the sworn enemy of a demoness called lemashtu that was said to eat freshly born babies and pazuzu was supposedly called upon, or amulets depicting him were used, to ward her off when a mother was in labor.

   

[claws]

This is probably just me but it always feels like the screen is on fire whenever Ellen Burstyn and Jason Miller have scenes together. I think they were meant to be together, and I always sense some sort of attraction to each other. Very subtle (Ellen Burstyn's character asks somebody at the party about "the priest" she saw on her way home) but it is there.

[Trevor]

I read the book when I was 11 and saw the movie when I was 12.  I was really intrigued by it because I kept hearing how everyone thought it was so shocking and scary.  I wasn't really shocked by the movie, but maybe it's because the book was a little more detailed.  Plus I was 12 and trying to push my limits.  I couldn't imagine letting my daughter read or watch The Exorcist at her age now (almost 11) though.  Weird how that works. 

On a slightly related note, I recently learned that, if I got it right, in Mesopotamian culture, the demon pazuzu was actually not evil.  He is supposed to be super ugly, but the sworn enemy of a demoness called lemashtu that was said to eat freshly born babies and pazuzu was supposedly called upon, or amulets depicting him were used, to ward her off when a mother was in labor.


   

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