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Excuse me for butting in here, but I think personally that the exorcist had been out of circulation for so long, that most of the hype was built around peoples memories about it. You have to remember that the time this was made, things were nowhere near as horrible in the real world as they are today, so people were probably a lot easier to shock than they are now.
Yeah, so I've seen the exorcist, I wasn't shocked, but then I'm not old enough to have seen it the first time round (just!). I saw this film only a few years ago, when it was first re-released on DVD. I'd already by this time seen a hell of a lot worse!
I saw Salems Lot when I was younger, and it scared the fucking living daylights out of me. And do you know what, it's still my best all time horror movie next to hellraisers first 3 films. To this day I still absolutely shit myself when I watch it, but I still have to watch it! But after all these years, it still makes an impact on me, and I think that's my exorcist.
The shining for instance though, I absolutely fucking love that movie too. It has jack nicolson as the main dude, it has stanley kubrick as the director, stephen king was the writer! For a combination in a horror film, it doesn't get much better than that. It's the perfect cocktail!
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