With THE EXORCIST, William Friedkin (THE FRENCH CONNECTION, THE BOYS IN THE BAND) rivals Hitchcock for heart-stopping terror in this deeply horrifying masterpiece that led to religious boycotts, fainting and nauseous audiences, and a commercial success that forever changed Hollywood. Linda Blair plays Regan, a 12-year-old girl possessed by the devil. After exhausting all the options of science, psychology, and medicine, Regan's mother (Ellen Burstyn) realizes the supernatural nature of her daughter's condition and resorts to a religious solution, turning to Father Karras (Jason Miller) for an exorcism. Aided by the mysterious Jesuit exorcist Father Merrin (Max von Sydow), Karras must confront not only supernatural phenomena but also his own inadequate faith and displaced guilt over his mother's recent death, a personal torment Regan uses to manipulate him, but with disturbing results. Like THE GODFATHER before it and JAWS soon after, THE EXORCIST enjoyed tremendous commercial and critical success that directly transformed Hollywood into the blockbuster behemoth of American culture.
Running Time:2 hrs. 01 min.
Release Date:December 26, 1973
MPAA Rating:R for strong language and disturbing images.
Distributors:Warner Brothers
U.S. Box Office:$39,661,731
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Um......see this review will tell you the truth! - The Exorcist Reviews
I LOVE scary movies and i was told that this is the scariest movie of all time and that i would never be able to sleep for the next month thinking about it.....this is so unture.....it was WAY too long... it took forever to get to the point.
Now even though i say its not that itsnot scary... it is in its own way... the fact that this story is based on a true story and that exorcisms have happend before can be scary... but now that i have seen so many movies with so many visuals and this movie looks really corny next to all of them. So the actual movie wont scare you very much but the idea is creepy and has you thinking.
Mos to fht epople who saw this movie in the 70s say it is the scariest movie they ever saw and alot of us look at them like uhh ok... but rememebr when these people saw this movie they had no idea what was going to happen. Alot of us who are seeing it now... have heard all about it and were expecting all the stuff such as her head spining around and here floating in the bed ....not to mention when her voice would change into a mans voice...and she could also talk in a different language which was strang. Weve also seen many spoofs on it which make it less scary.
So really to me this movie is more sad and gross than it is scary... but hey give it a shot....you never know if Captin Howdy might scare you...
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