Didn't ever do more then bring up questions, I just wanted to know why o.o

It didn't scare me the first time I saw it, but I feel its a great movie.

My wife on the other hand is a pretty devout Catholic and refuses to watch it (but has seen parts by accident lol).

I think your level of religion (especially if you're Catholic) has something to do with how scary the posession scenario is. Thoughts of Religion/God/Satan are rather personal things close to people's hearts for the most part. This movie exploits those fears. The closest those things are to your heart, the more exploitave the film is to that individual. If you're an Atheist, this movie is probably laughable. If all you know is Catholicism, it could be the scariest thing you've ever seen.

Of course, this is just my personal opinion. Yours may vary.

Mine indeed do. I've never been a Christian, but when I saw this in its original release, it was a good scary movie. I never ran screaming from the theatre, but it was the best scary movie at the time.

I don't think I conveyed myself the best I could have. I guess I could've been more clear by saying you can be scared at different levels. For the devout folks, this could scare them at a very spiritual level. My wife is afraid of Nightmare on Elm Street too, but that's a very different level. She's most afraid of the Exorcist because of the attack on her spirituality. This is what makes it the most scary movie in the world to her. On the other hand she can watch movies that are 10X scarier in my opinion, and not be affected by them at all. :)

I'm not exactly the best at conveying what I'm thinking, so I hope everyone can kinda see what I'm getting at.

I grew up in an Irish Catholic family and I saw The Exorcist when I was seven. It scared the shit out of me.

As an adult and father, now the first half of the film contains the scares for me. All the painfull and (ultimately) unnecessary medical proceedures on a child make my skin crawl.

My kids just think it's a cool "spooky" flick.

Exorcist 3, however is SCARY and cool as hell.

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I saw it on its first release at the theatre........pretty creepy for its day, and still holds up very well.

agree on Exorcist 3.......great movie with one of the best scares in any movie.

I don't think it takes being a Christian to fully involve oneself in this movie. I always saw any demons-- there are many, even non-Christian varieties-- to be the embodiment of the choice to commit evil acts.

I remember seeing this on TV when I was all alone at home. Don't think I was older than 12 at the time but since I by that time already loved watching horror movies even though my mom didn't let me.. ehemm. So I thought it would be fun. But hell no, I actually DID throw up afterwards. And couldn't be alone for the next few weeks. It's safe to say that after that scare I have never really been scared by a horror movie. Built up some kind of immunity.

Now I'm on the hunt of finding something similar to give me a scare but these modern (2000-) horror flicks are all so lame that I find them funny instead. And yeah, everyone seems to want the whole jump thing instead of a good story with an eerie feel. They seem to not have the patience in which good horror builds up. For example the Spanish movie REC. The first 10-20 minutes are quite a bore but it builds up and in the end it's pretty goddamn good.

I'm just kind of tired of the typical serialkiller coming after you with a knife kind of crap. Or anything with a bunch of teenagers in a deserted anything. As for taking the piss out of those movies, yeah, I have a fun time.

I grew up in a fairly devout christian-catholic household. My mother is very religious and refused to let me watch this movie when I was a child, but mother's aren't everywhere and my father liked watching action & horror movies with us kids, thankfully. A bit jealous of him though, he got to see it in theaters. Really spooked me when I was around 5 or 6 from what I can remember, but E.T. actually scared me much, much worse. (Something about aliens when I was that young, I guess...)

Didn't really get the chance to see it again until around 3 years ago, got the box set with all The Exorcist flicks and decided to watch it with my girlfriend at the time. Thoroughly enjoyed it, didn't find it that scary, but unsettling at times definitely. Ex found it extremely scary though. She was screaming and kept covering her eyes for a lot of it, then the classic spider-walk scene came on and she started crying like a baby. Almost made me turn it off. She apparently had nightmares of Regan standing at the edge of her bed for a couple of nights, wouldn't let me leave her alone in any room at night. Haha Never thought a 20-year-old could get that scared of a movie.

If anything I think the movie has aged extremely well, 37 years old and still scaring the crap out of some people. Easily one of my top favorite horror movies, and top favorite movies in general.

*runs into thread*

Did someone summon me?