the Exorcist

[PredBabe]

True, i don't believe anything from a movie is true...

unless it states otherwise...


Some girl in my class from college said the Exorcist was based on a true story.

 apparently, according to this girl(something she read), when filming apparently the set caught on fire for no apparent reason...

to be honest i'm not too sure if i believe that   

It is supposed to be a true story... Though didn't they say it happened to a little boy? 
They had this big show on it, they were talking about all the Exorcist films. They said that one day the people who really did experience this were in the hospital, and they heard this loud "BOOM", so they ran up to check on the kid who was supposedly possessed, and he was just sitting up in his bed looking out the window all calm. Kind of creepy... That show also talked about the fire that started on the set. A lot of things supposedly happened to those that worked on any of the films. It was a type of "curse" if someone worked on an Exorcist film. They were talking about a few strange deaths, I think a couple times a fire started. Someone crossed the street and was killed by getting hit. Things like that. Don't remember the full details though, this was a year or so ago...  (LOL it sounds like all I do is watch TV! I swear I don’t!   )

The way the girl looks alone just freaks me the hell out. It was a really good horror film, very effective if you ask me. Though it did have its moments where you were like "WTF? okaaay..."  I wouldn't say that you could laughed at any of it. The acting was pretty good to not take seriously. I wouldn’t think that you need to be a Christian to enjoy this film and be unsettled by it. Look at it as any other horror film that has some kind of supernatural story to it. 
Its hard to scare anyone these days. This saying really does work well with horror films “less is more.” The sounds and music for the film alone can scare people. You know like the remake of Amityville Horror wasn’t as scary for quite a few reasons. One of them being they showed the ghosts that terrorized the family.  Where as in the original they used eerie sounds, and voices, and situations where the daughter would come up at random and tell her parents what her "imaginary" friend had to say. It made you sit and wonder is this thing that she's talking to really a good spirit or does it want to harm her like the rest?

The best way to view a film is to put yourself in the character's position, you'll enjoy the film more and get those few good scares out of the experience...

[Kaneda]

even the Grudge and the Ring are more shocking than the Exorcist now thats saying something

Myself and many, many, others would disagree. I've never heard any stories from people about how The Grudge or The Ring traumatized them for years and kept them from re-watching it ever again.

[Hunter]

The best way to view a film is to put yourself in the character's position, you'll enjoy the film more and get those few good scares out of the experience...

Absolutely.

even the Grudge and the Ring are more shocking than the Exorcist now thats saying something

They're not even visually more shocking. Lightning fast images of the Pazuzu statue are 10x more effective than a really pale girl being hormonal. Besides, they're incomparable films, The Exorcist more a thinking man's horror and The Grudge a noisy, visceral bloodbath.

[beckmen]

I thought The Grudge was PG-13. Still, not scary at all, IMO. Also not a good movie. I liked The Ring and Ringu, but after that all those Japanese ghost-horror and the American counterparts are the same old shit.

I agree with Izzet. Those subliminal frames in The Exorcist are freaky.

[yautjaqueen]

I guess thats why the Exorcist didn't scare me, probs because i didn't understand the story, yeah i know that a girl got possessed and all, i just don't know there was something there that confused me...

It is supposed to be a true story... Though didn't they say it happened to a little boy? 
They had this big show on it, they were talking about all the Exorcist films. They said that one day the people who really did experience this were in the hospital, and they heard this loud "BOOM", so they ran up to check on the kid who was supposedly possessed, and he was just sitting up in his bed looking out the window all calm. Kind of creepy... That show also talked about the fire that started on the set. A lot of things supposedly happened to those that worked on any of the films. It was a type of "curse" if someone worked on an Exorcist film. They were talking about a few strange deaths, I think a couple times a fire started. Someone crossed the street and was killed by getting hit. Things like that. Don't remember the full details though, this was a year or so ago...  (LOL it sounds like all I do is watch TV! I swear I don’t!   )

The way the girl looks alone just freaks me the hell out. It was a really good horror film, very effective if you ask me. Though it did have its moments where you were like "WTF? okaaay..."  I wouldn't say that you could laughed at any of it. The acting was pretty good to not take seriously. I wouldn’t think that you need to be a Christian to enjoy this film and be unsettled by it. Look at it as any other horror film that has some kind of supernatural story to it. 
Its hard to scare anyone these days. This saying really does work well with horror films “less is more.” The sounds and music for the film alone can scare people. You know like the remake of Amityville Horror wasn’t as scary for quite a few reasons. One of them being they showed the ghosts that terrorized the family.  Where as in the original they used eerie sounds, and voices, and situations where the daughter would come up at random and tell her parents what her "imaginary" friend had to say. It made you sit and wonder is this thing that she's talking to really a good spirit or does it want to harm her like the rest?

The best way to view a film is to put yourself in the character's position, you'll enjoy the film more and get those few good scares out of the experience...

Yes a girl in my class told me the same thing, i sorta didn't believe her but at the same time i wanted to believe her, i was just confused...

[CelticPredator]

I LOVE the Exorcist. Its a must watch every Halloween.

[yautjaqueen]

I LOVE the Exorcist. Its a must watch every Halloween.

I have to agree there