[Neuro]

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.