The Exorcist - The Most Terrifying and Controversial film ever
 

After reading some things about this movie. I've come to respect it much more. It had a major impact on the world and changed movie history.

The Exorcist to me is the most classic movie I will ever see.

Controversy

-The Exorcist holds the record for most people having heart attacks while watching in theatres.

-Many people were recorded to have running out of the theatres screaming before the movie finished.

-Ambulance were called on several ocasions.

-Many people had to go through psychotherapy after viewing the film because they were so disturbed.

-Some of the people that ran out of the theatres during the movie were reported to have layed down on the ground and pray over and over again.

-2 Woman had miscarriages (gave birth prematurely) in the cinema because they were too terrified.

-The pope requested every copy of the exorcist reel, tape and any other thing to be burned and banned from the entire world.

-The full version of the movie was banned and never released again until 30 YEARS after its release.

-People protested and threw tomatoes at every cinema that played the movie.

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I find this amazing. If any movie can do this, it's a movie worth watching.

Respect to The Exorcist.

He sooo didn't get it - Church attendance across the globe had been declining throughout the 60s and early 70s and this film quite literally scared thousands if not tens of thousands back into the "safety" of Sunday services.

It did more for the Church than Vatican Council II

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-Some of the people that ran out of the theatres during the movie were reported to have layed down on the ground and pray over and over again.

When did the pope manage something remotly like that? They could use this for what it's worth. Show The Exorcist in church so everyone starts praying more :D

The Exorcist
 

This is the only horror movie that actually put a scare in me.

But I did not pass out or sleep with the covers over my head either.

This was a first rate, classic, chilling horror movie.

It had the most dramatic EFFECT on moviegoers certainly. But this is one of those horror movies that a lot of horror fans find less scary than mainstream viewers. Not that it isn't scary, not that it doesn't have some of the great shots in film history, but I think it's quite overrated in a lot of ways. It's better as a dramatic film than it is as a horror film.

You have to understand that watching this movie today, will have little to no impact on us.

You have to think about the people back then. They had never seen anything like this before. It started a whole new line of horror movies.

What they saw was shocking to them. Back then nothing like this had ever been done. Which is why it caused so much controversy. But thats what makes it a classic.

It's the King and Father of all horror movies.

Well, I saw The Exorcist back in "the day" when it came out. There was a lot of publicity about people puking and passing out and stuff- but who knows how much of that was planted is anyone's guess. It was a good scary movie, but nobody at the theatres I saw it at (I saw it twice) passed out, ran out screaming, puked or anything like that. There were screams!

There were other films at the time I would have considered more controversial and pushing more boundaries- such as Andy Warhol/Paul Morrisey films and early John Waters.

I would love to see that.

I think it was media hype. The Ambulances were plants. You know how it is with the hype bandwagon.
But the film is a really good classic though , and iam just about to watch it again, so i could run out my house screaming, puking my guts up and phoning a Ambulance before i faint. < Just kidding........Mummy!!!!

the exorcist, scary, huh!
 

why do u think the exorcist is scary.
i saw it and it was just a bunch of $h!t.
the girl was shouting and throwing green mucus, wats the point.
lets turn to the movies of now.
dont u see there are really scary movies now
well at least they have better effects.
ill list 7 of them
1. hostel
2. hostel II
3. incubus
4. silent hill
5. vacancy
6. the hills have eyes
7. the hills have eyes II
watch them and say what do u see now.
and if u think the exorcist started the horror movies chain, youre wrong.
it started with Psycho, by Albert Hitchcock.