Hi, all, slowly getting the hang of this review writing, and enjoying reading many of them.
Hi, all, slowly getting the hang of this review writing, and enjoying reading many of them.
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The Exorcist (Directors Cut).
I'm pretty sure that by now, most people would have heard about the Exorcist film, either Film, Dvd, Video or just from memories of parents.
The later of this summary is what I'm basing my review on. I was one of many who stood outside the cinema in the pouring rain, of the first showing of this movie, at our local cinema in the early 70's.
I thought it was quite funny at the time to listen to; Priests and Nuns outside telling us not to watch it, in fact this had an adverse effect on me, it just made me want to watch it more.
Yes at the time it was truly horrifying, and left a real chill down the spine, every time I heard a bird in our loft after that I was convinced it was the devil looking for another possession. But time moved on, and 100's of Horror films later, it all seemed a distant memory, and then I came across this DVD, the Directors Cut, it had me intreaged, what would be different and would I notice any difference.
My son who is nearly 17 asked to watch it with me, I thought oh well, they see many demons/ghouls/ghosts etc: surely it wouldn't do any harm, after all this film is some 30+ years old, How wrong could I have been?
The Film, Everything was as I remember it to be, Reagan (Linda Blair) the demonically posed child, Her single parent mum, struggling to come to terms with what was happening to her daughter, The hard looking boxer type Father Damien Karass (Jason Miller) who is struggling to come to terms with his faith, the Dodgy looking trench coat wearing detective and the Old Father (Max Von Sydow) on the edge of his death bed trying to perform an exorcism on the possessed girl.
Lots of foul language, spinning of Reagan's head, the vomit that stretches the length of the room, and cold stare of evil from Reagan, actually reminds me of my teenage Daughter when I tell her she cant go to the youth club,
I was doing well, not really a problem, but then! Who the bloody hell stuck in the part when Reagan walks down stairs in a crab positition, like a deranged spider, talks in Latin and then vomits lashings of blood, my God I nearly fell of the chair, my son was speechless, now I saw why this was omitted from the original film, what a terrible moment.
There is a few little bits and bobs that I thought were different, but nothing on the scale of this scene.
After watching it again, I still totally agree with its 18 rating, the fact that it leaves you believing it could really happen is still there, must send this film into the archives as one of the all time scariest movies
In the words of my son, "One HELL of a film" seems to be quite appropriate.
Rated 18
Dvd Special features include audio commentary by the Director William Friedkin, Four TV interviews and two radio interviews, with his views on the film and an insight into the making and his personnel feeling about the film.
Production Year: 1977 - Horror - Director: John Boorman - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Ned Beatty, Richard Burton, Linda Blair, Louise Fletcher, Max Von Sydow, Kitty Winn, Paul Henreid, James Earl Jones
Production Year: 1973 - Horror - Director: William Friedkin - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Jason Miller, Max Von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Jack MacGowran, Kitty Winn
Along with Psycho the greatest gritty horror film ever, amazing stuff.
miss_d_bus 09.03.2006 14:37
There was this fashion when it was re-released for 18 yr olds to go and see it and talk about how "crap" it was.
I think they missed the point somewhat. The most terrifying moment for me was when Reagan makes a rude comment regarding what one of the priest's mother is doing in hell. (i'm being polite here...!) The dramatic element of this was the fact she knew the mother had passed away. Its the subtle parts of this film that makes it a classic.
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