Recent Movie Purchases, part 2

[zombie no.one]

THE EXORCIST

by my reckoning this will be my 6th or 7th attempt to watch this all the way through. this time I have faith... for a change I'm going to approach it with the mindset of treating it like it's 'just another 70s Linda Blair tv movie', because I like those. SUMMER OF FEAR rocks.
 

Kino Lorber is running a sale, so I ordered 19 blu-rays (including some 1970s TV movies of the week).


Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo

this is on bluray? hah. I don't know why but that's funny to me.

[zombie no.one]

ridiculous artwork for that 

[Trevor]

THE EXORCIST

by my reckoning this will be my 6th or 7th attempt to watch this all the way through. this time I have faith... for a change I'm going to approach it with the mindset of treating it like it's 'just another 70s Linda Blair tv movie', because I like those. SUMMER OF FEAR rocks.

I can't believe that was banned for almost two decades here 😳

[zombie no.one]

THE EXORCIST

by my reckoning this will be my 6th or 7th attempt to watch this all the way through. this time I have faith... for a change I'm going to approach it with the mindset of treating it like it's 'just another 70s Linda Blair tv movie', because I like those. SUMMER OF FEAR rocks.

I can't believe that was banned for almost two decades here 😳

well I'm pretty sure it was banned for 25 years here in uk. cinemas raced to start showing it as soon as the ban lifted in 98(ish?). I went to see it at a local one and everyone started laughing at it virtually from the start, which kind of spoiled it for me... and I managed to fall asleep, in the cinema.

[Trevor]

THE EXORCIST

by my reckoning this will be my 6th or 7th attempt to watch this all the way through. this time I have faith... for a change I'm going to approach it with the mindset of treating it like it's 'just another 70s Linda Blair tv movie', because I like those. SUMMER OF FEAR rocks.

I can't believe that was banned for almost two decades here 😳

well I'm pretty sure it was banned for 25 years here in uk. cinemas raced to start showing it as soon as the ban lifted in 98(ish?). I went to see it at a local one and everyone started laughing at it virtually from the start, which kind of spoiled it for me... and I managed to fall asleep, in the cinema.

Oy 😳😃😄😀

[zombie no.one]

watched the whole thing. at last, I have been truly exorcised.

it's not a bad movie, just strangely lacking in atmosphere I thought. the 'scary' bits aren't really. it has disturbing themes, yes. whole film just felt oddly static and uninvolving to me.

compare and contrast with THE OMEN which (again in my opinion) is darker, scarier, more intense, and yet also more 'fun'..... hey ho.

[M.10rda]

I agree w/ you 100%, ZNO. Original EXORCIST has a few effective moments and the acting is good, but I don't find the final act scary at all and instead think it's borderline silly at times. I imagine early 70s audiences were just so shocked at the onscreen blasphemy that it whipped them into a panic state.

Now that I'm putting this into words, I reflect that the final act of David Gordon Green's EXORCIST sequel was also a complete embarrassment... a bigger trainwreck by far than the original's ending. Perhaps that was DGG's "homage" to Friedkin! 

I dunno, I think the idea of demonic possession and exorcism is scary. I wish I could think of a movie that translates that scariness. I didn't like EMILY ROSE or LAST EXORCISM, either...

[zombie no.one]

I dunno, I think the idea of demonic possession and exorcism is scary. I wish I could think of a movie that translates that scariness.

good point, I think LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH might be the closest vaguely parallel example I can think of which managed to creep / scare me.. not 100% in the same ballpark though

EXORCIST is my favourite movie critic Mark Kermode's favourite film of all time, he said he's seen it over 200 times and every time it seems like a different movie... I have movies that are a bit like that for me (USUAL SUSPECTS), but I'm all maxxed out on EXORCIST now

[M.10rda]

I like Mark Kermode. His comment makes zero sense to me, but to each his own. I haven't seen LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH and should.