Ceticultsot
Beautiful, moving film.
Nayan Gough
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Keeley Coleman
The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
Kaelan Mccaffrey
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
cinephile-27690
I am a Christian and do not find this offensive. It's just a movie, and Satan is shown in a negative light. Despite a slow beginning, it is essential and the rest of the movie is the payoff. There are many scary scenes such as a scene where a girl must jab her groin with a crucifix(to which she says the above quote.) She spins her head, spider crawls backwards while vomiting blood, she vomits all over people, pees in front of house guests, and more. While I can't personally say it's the scariest movie I have ever seen, or of all time as my DVD case claims, it was definitely terrifying and made for a good horror movie. I say it's worth a watch.
Sam Panico
What do you write about a movie that pretty much created modern horror? Sure, you can point to Night of the Living Dead and even Carnival of Souls as starting points, but from a mainstream blockbuster perspective, this is where the rules of modern supernatural horror begin.Inspired by William Peter Blatty's 1971 novel, which itself was inspired by the 1949 exorcism of Roland Doe ("The Pope's Exorcist" Malachi Martin claimed that he was the inspiration, a point that Blatty denied) the legends around this film - it was a cursed set, it's filled with subliminal messages - supersede a very simple fact: this movie is frightening as hell, even 40 plus years later.Do I even need to tell you the story of how Pazuzu finds its way into an Ouija board and into the soul of the daughter of an actress? Probably not. What's striking is that how long the movie takes to get there. Scenes of Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) acting take precedence over the sad life of Father Karras, who has to deal with the death of his mother and his increasing lack of faith.When do we realize something is wrong? When it is too late. When Regan (Linda Blair) intrudes on one of her mother's boring parties, pisses on the floor and tells an astronaut "You're gonna die up there." Science can't solve these issues. Detectives cannot. Only the Church can help.What follows is a haunted house of scares that have been imitated ad nauseum (pun intended) so many times that we know the beats: head spinning, pea soup vomit, masturbation with a cross, blood, strange voices, levitation. A priest must show weakness before showing great sacrifice. And in the end, two old men find friendship in the aftermath.As for viewers today, they may be surprised at the sinister power that this movie still holds.
loganalaxanian
This film is one of the greatest horror films of all time for a reason. William Friedkin did an excellent job bringing William Peter Blatty's 1971 novel to life. Not only did this movie keep me awake at night out of fear it also kept me up wondering how they did these amazing effects. The effects were ahead of its time and is one of the reasons why people needed therapy after watching it.
hayleygorman-43033
The Exorcist, a film more than forty years old, still holds up today as one of the definite greatest horror masterpieces ever. It left audiences shaking and in cold sweats, never sure what was coming next. The special effects are still superb, blending reality into fiction with the dedicated craftsmanship of the production team. The dialogue is absolutely bone-chilling, especially when such despicable words are uttered out of a girl's mouth in a demon's raspy voice. And something that may fall by the wayside in a viewer's conscious mind but absolutely was a key component in making the movie great was the cinematography; shots of chilling streets and spinning heads. The Exorcist is a movie any film buff should see and an absolute delight for any horror fan.
