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The Exorcist, that movie just never hit my scary bone at all.
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There's always huge expectation before you see
The Exorcist for the first time, such is it's notorious reputation for being outrageous, blasphemous, disgusting and scary.
Same goes for
TCM, The Shining, Halloween, The Blair Witch Project etc. (though all for different reasons, but "terror" is a word often flung around with glee).
Trouble is, this build up invariably has the effect of crushing disappointment on the viewer who finally hopes to find out what all the fuss is about... perhaps it is because by the time you actually get round to sitting down in front of these movies ("OK guys, this is IT! Here we GO!"), you are far to well armed and defended against all the elements of it that should really hit the spot.
In recent years, watching
The Blair Witch Project on video with next to no background information on either the film or the hype (apart from a very brief nose around the famous website) proved to be a fantastically scary and engrossing experience I hadn't had for
years of watching movies - and I'm certain my lack of scepticism (not about the "is it real?" element, but how supposedly scary this film was meant up to be) helped this no end.
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The Exorcist, gotta love that horrible, yellowing, demonic little face and those ghastly sneers in a man's voice coming from a 12-year-old girl... brrrr!