scared/scary i would say no.but it was creepy and apparently,as you all may know it was based on a true story.now that is scary as you never know!ive also seen paranormal activity,which has been mentioned in this thread.this was also creepy imo.both good films.

I think I waited too long to watch it. I didn't see it until I was probably 19 or 20 years old and by then it had no chance of being scary for me. I remember being terrified of screenshots of the movie when I was younger.

My cousin was twenty six the first time he saw the spider walk, and it literally brought tears to his eyes.

Always felt it was to camp to be scary - the Exorcist always felt a bit Monty Python to me...Granted I didn't see it on it's first cinema release but i did on the VHS relwase.

I was 13 or 14 when this movie was released. It made the news many times because of the lines, people running out of the theatre screaming. Fainting. My whole family went (I was the youngest), while everyone else in the theatre was gasping and oohing, we were hysterically laughing. It didn't frighten us then, and it hasn't the other two times I've seen it.

I still don't get what the fuss is about. Though Linda Blair, still hot.

I think you need to take a seat over there..

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I always found the movie rather not so scary, but rather twisted, not in as far as horror or gore, but as the sense of being possessed by satan himself or multiple demons. It's scary to see for the first because you're wondering what's gonna happen next, which keeps you on the end of your seat, but after you see it, it's not scary really.

Linda and I are the same age. So, when I saw it in the theatre, I thought she was pretty. Now she's gorgeous.

I friggin missed her at the Chiller convention years ago. I have a poster of her, sold through Famous Monsters or 16 magazine with her on one side, ,and shots from the Exorcist on the other. I brought it to get autographed, but she had left early.

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I dont think frighten is the right word, distubing and shocking would be more apt, the film is shot in almost documentary style in order to capture Reagan's ordeal, charting the initial onset of her possession to the full blown demonic infestation, not only of her body but her demeanour and physical appearance, here is a twelve year old girl who has seen the breakdown of her family, no father, her mother is a successful actress and so reagan is left in the care of ageing housekeepers and minder, sharon, who on the face of it is too preoccupied with everything other than Reagan and so to no surprise finds entertainment with the Ouija board which consequently opens the door for the possession, the visual aspects of the film are very shocking to this day and the visceral onslaught can leave you numb, I think what the film wanted to show was the collapse of the all American dream, the family unit and the struggle with pre-pubescence, it has been documented that the film was/is based around that very issue as the overt sexual overtones are very prominent throughout the film without being vulgar for the sake of it,

during the sixties the world had changed dramatically after the end of WW11 and values had become more relaxed, so much so that the younger generation of that era ushered in a new and free-er sexual explosion, the rise of the hippy and peace movement strengthened the relaxed attitude to the way people lived, drugs became prominent in many social circles and so gave rise to experimentation in other area's IE; the Occult, the catholic church became very concerned with the attitude of our liberated young men and women and so called for reform on many issues regarding the use of "recreational" drugs and alcohol citing it is the work of the Devil and is due to a collapse in the moral values of modern society, these issues are very evident in the Exorcist, whilst the movie is to all intents a work of fiction it draws upon the issues that govern society to this day and what happens if we dont take responsibility and in its way that is frightening,

I believe the film leaves everyone with some kind of impression, not necessarily fear but certainly an overpowering sense of something, for me I feel it is the impact the film still has to this day that is its power, the ability to shock, disturb or maybe frighten, I think the one question we can all be agreed on is whether good did prevail over evil... I dont think so !

The Exorcist does'nt depend upon gore to be effective in achieving its aim to shock, I think the fact that the subject of an all american family is the focus of the Demonic attack is its strength, a real person in real situations give rise to the repulsion viewers feel about the Devil defiling this young girl, there is the debate as to whether the Exorcist has lost its ability to shock, disturb or frighten and I think this lies in two factors, (1) there have been too many sequels/prequels which tends to stretch the franchise too far, (2) there are too many poor rip off movies made which make the whole topic of demonic possession almost comical which goes a long way toward diluting the effect of the Exorcist, I also believe that through the many slasher movies and gore fests that are out I believe horror fans and movie goers generally have been de-sensitised against being genuinally shocked by a horror movie, many of these movies depict the most horrific and graphic cruelty one human can do to another and through that it loses its ability to become shocking and people become less appalled by these acts as they are deemed commonplace within these movies, how many ways can you behead, disembowel, rip, sexually abuse etc.. and it is this which has made these movies more comic than horror,

I really believe that the Exorcist's true strength is that it had a story, good actors, a plot which had a theme, beginning, middle and end and above all it opened a debate on many levels, that is what a good movie should do whether it be a horror, drama, adventure or whatever, the power to get people talking and the Exorcist did that and continues to do that 37yrs after its release.