The acting is good all around and it’s well cast.
The makeup effects are neat.
What I Didn’t Like: The pacing, awkward editing, shoddy
storytelling and the idea that this was made into a movie.
Overall Impression: I don’t get it. I sincerely don’t understand why this is
considered not only one of the scariest films but also one of the best pictures
ever. This is the third time I’ve
checked it out and it’s only gotten worse for me over the years.
I can see how the idea of a possessed little girl would work
much better in book form. Trying to
imagine the voice and exact look of the demonic child could invoke creepy
images in your mind. But to attempt to
bring that to a visual medium is gonna be next to impossible. (Full disclosure:
I’ve never read the book nor do I have any interest)
All of the shit with the fucked up Regan (Linda Blair (Roller Boogie)) is comical. The green sludge spitting, head spinning, bed
shaking, potty mouth spewing and etc is so goddamn silly. But that’s just the famous stuff. 75% of the movie is made up of boring
dialogue scenes that go on too long, somewhat interesting dialogue scenes that
get abruptly cut short and a police investigation into the murder of some character
(I really don’t know who was supposed to have died because they don’t show you
the incident or the corpse or setup that character properly enough so you know
who the fuck he is by the time he bites it).
These images are what most of the movie looks like |
They even got the fucking title wrong. I fully admit it sounds bitchin’ but it
doesn’t make sense. The exorcist is
Father Merrin (Max Von Sydow (Strange
Brew)) but this movie is not about him.
And I reject any argument that says Father Karras (Jason Miller (Rudy)) is the exorcist because at most
his story is shared with Regan’s fifty fifty.
The plot really revolves around Regan and her possession. That’s what drives everything. So this should’ve been called “The Exorcism”
or “The Possessed” or some shit.
The scariest thing in here is when the doctors stick that
needle into a vein in Regan’s throat and it starts pumping out blood and they feed
a long string in there and ugh!
Disturbingly real medical procedures, that’s what gets me.
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