Best Horror movie !

[ital8]

yeah, i agree... i was born in 71, so i was too young to understand the initial craze, which much have been something from all i have heard. but i remember around 1977-78 or so as cable tv began becoming more widespread, and TBS and HBO and other tv channels began to pop up, they would always show it on halloween, and that was when the fear began to build for me from this initial moment: they were showing it on regular TV some time around 1977 or so, and they were advertising it on TV commercials (it was heavily edited obviously), but they were running the commercials for it in the afternoons and early evenings...and i would see these and they began to terrify me...i was in hysterics for days over it and had nightmares for years afterwards, and it was so upsetting that my mother, who was one of the biggest anti-censorship types ever was so enraged that she and several other mothers led a boycott that got the laws at the time changed so that one would not be able to advertise really scary movies during the time when children may have been likely to be viewing a TV, i.e. before 8:00 pm or so...

i forget what the agreement was, but it was rather sensible...

but that was where it all started for me.:frown1: strange that one movie should cause such a journey of torment to eventual acceptance of how good it was while still retaining that grip of fear over me so palpably, and my inability to still fully get over it, even if i can handle it now.

that is what truly makes it a landmark film...


on a sidenote, the worst thing that happened was i fell asleep one night about two years ago with the TV on AMC,

it was one of their classics nights and they always have good stuff...it was a "films of the 70s" or something, where they would pick a film from each year of the decade (70, 71, 72, 73, etc) and run them over the course of a day i looked at the evening schedule and saw Patton, then the French Connection, then Deliverance, and i did not check beyond that as it would be around 2:00 AM by the time Deliverance ended

so first i watched "Patton" (1970) then i was watching "The French Connection" (1971) and i fell asleep around 11 pm probably... right after it was "Deliverance" (1972)...

so i am asleep....i start having these terribly vivid nightmares about the Exorcist, which i had not had in awhile and i am hearing all the lines pretty clearly and i suddenly bolt up in bed in shock, and i have a big 48 inch LD TV directly on the opposite wall from my bed, and there in high def, is the final exorcism scene and her face closeup, and i literally hit the ceiling, and the volume was so loud, and i couldn't find the remote in the dark and i was flailing around trying to find it just to change the channel...christ that was horrible. :frown1::frown1::frown1:

Just out of curiousity, have you ever read the novel? It was published in 1971. I've read it three times (I know call me crazy, but I'm a big horror novel buff) and it is a great novel that goes into a little more detail than the movie. It wasn't as scary as the movie because one, I was older when I read the book, and two since I saw the movie several times I knew what to expect. Needless to say, there were some parts that made my hair stand on end and it definitely gave me goosebumps.

 

[Anything4you]

i read the novel a long time ago. It was just as bad if not worse than the movie. In the film, most of the bad stuff happens in Regan's bedroom, but if I remember correctly, the book has her possessed and going all over the house terrorizing people. It freaked me out. I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight if I keep writing about it. I'm watching The last american virgin now, a classic from the 80's.

 

[MalakingTiti]

"Night of the Living Dead" and "The Exorcist". You can throw "Rosemary's Baby" in there too.

 

[Flashy]

Just out of curiousity, have you ever read the novel? It was published in 1971. I've read it three times (I know call me crazy, but I'm a big horror novel buff) and it is a great novel that goes into a little more detail than the movie. It wasn't as scary as the movie because one, I was older when I read the book, and two since I saw the movie several times I knew what to expect. Needless to say, there were some parts that made my hair stand on end and it definitely gave me goosebumps.

never read the book...i had enough trouble with the film, i do not need any more exorcist induced horror in my life, thank you very much :smile:

 

[Flashy]

i read the novel a long time ago. It was just as bad if not worse than the movie. In the film, most of the bad stuff happens in Regan's bedroom, but if I remember correctly, the book has her possessed and going all over the house terrorizing people. It freaked me out. I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight if I keep writing about it. I'm watching The last american virgin now, a classic from the 80's.

i am curious, did they have "the spider walk" in the book?

i always wondered if there could have been more scenes where she chased people once she had gone fully demonic, maybe sort of trapping them in a room, with the power out, and then when they open the door, there she is in full on demon mode...i would probably have a heart attack...

i think the spider walk would have been more effective if it had come when she was much more "demonic" later on...when she does the spider walk, her face is still relatively normal, so it is not as scary, though it is rather spooky...when i heard about the "spider walk" before i ever saw it, i always thought it was more extreme than it turned out to be...i always assumed it was done when her face was full on in demon mode, and that her limbs were twisted (hyperextended) in the wrong direction, and that her head was turned the other way...

i think it would have been terrifying if they had done it that way...

it is amazing to think just how much more they could have done with her..and it was already pretty extreme...certainly more stuff around the house would have been scary

 

[jason_els]

The Other is very good too. It's a movie about two boys who live on a farm.

 

[Meniscus]

The Other is very good too. It's a movie about two boys who live on a farm.

Yes it was. It was quite a pleasant surprise when I rented it.

 

[ital8]

i am curious, did they have "the spider walk" in the book?

i always wondered if there could have been more scenes where she chased people once she had gone fully demonic, maybe sort of trapping them in a room, with the power out, and then when they open the door, there she is in full on demon mode...i would probably have a heart attack...

i think the spider walk would have been more effective if it had come when she was much more "demonic" later on...when she does the spider walk, her face is still relatively normal, so it is not as scary, though it is rather spooky...when i heard about the "spider walk" before i ever saw it, i always thought it was more extreme than it turned out to be...i always assumed it was done when her face was full on in demon mode, and that her limbs were twisted (hyperextended) in the wrong direction, and that her head was turned the other way...

i think it would have been terrifying if they had done it that way...

it is amazing to think just how much more they could have done with her..and it was already pretty extreme...certainly more stuff around the house would have been scary

To answer your question, yes the spiderwalk was in the book.

 

[Flashy]

To answer your question, yes the spiderwalk was in the book.

interesting...how was it described? did she spit the blood and chase them etc? or was it more tame?

 

[ital8]

If I remember correctly I believe she flickered out her tongue like serpent and licked Chris' assistant's leg. In fact, that was a deleted scene from the movie. But I'll double check the book.

 

[ital8]

Here is the passage from the book.

"Gliding spiderlike, rapidly, close behind Sharon, her body arched backward in a bow with her head almost touching her feet, was Regan, her tongue flicking in and out of her mouth while she hissed sibilantly like a serpent. "Sharon?" Chris said numbly, still staring at Regan. Sharon stopped. So did Regan. Sharon turned and saw nothing. And then screamed as she felt Regan's tongue snaking out at her ankle. Chris whitened. "Call that doctor and get him out of bed" "Get him now" Wherever Sharon moved, Regan would follow.

 

[Flashy]

Here is the passage from the book.

"Gliding spiderlike, rapidly, close behind Sharon, her body arched backward in a bow with her head almost touching her feet, was Regan, her tongue flicking in and out of her mouth while she hissed sibilantly like a serpent. "Sharon?" Chris said numbly, still staring at Regan. Sharon stopped. So did Regan. Sharon turned and saw nothing. And then screamed as she felt Regan's tongue snaking out at her ankle. Chris whitened. "Call that doctor and get him out of bed" "Get him now" Wherever Sharon moved, Regan would follow.

creepy!

i remember her doing the tongue flicking in the deleted scene (qwhich you can see on youtube, and was in the re-release)

can't remember when she spit the blood though...i think there were two versions of the spider walk...

 

[D_Ivana Dickenside]

stephen king's "it" is so super scary. i hate clowns because of that movie and i still get scared watching it.

"the exorcist" will always scare the shit out of me too. even if i see linda blair as an adult, she still scares the shit out of me.

a more recent horror movie that scares the shit out of me is "the unborn," which came out earlier this year. OMGGGGG!!! i couldn't sleep for days without leaving the light on.