SmugKitZine
Tied for the best movie I have ever seen
Maidexpl
Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
Janae Milner
Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Benas Mcloughlin
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
agro_sydney
I recently revisited this film on Blu-ray after some 45 years. It still rates as one of my favourite horror films, one of my top ten films and a masterpiece of film making. Beautiful photography, great locations, sets, special effects and acting.
It still stands up as a great film today
Sam Panico
What do you write about a movie that pretty much created modern horror? Sure, you can point to Night of the Living Dead and even Carnival of Souls as starting points, but from a mainstream blockbuster perspective, this is where the rules of modern supernatural horror begin.Inspired by William Peter Blatty's 1971 novel, which itself was inspired by the 1949 exorcism of Roland Doe ("The Pope's Exorcist" Malachi Martin claimed that he was the inspiration, a point that Blatty denied) the legends around this film - it was a cursed set, it's filled with subliminal messages - supersede a very simple fact: this movie is frightening as hell, even 40 plus years later.Do I even need to tell you the story of how Pazuzu finds its way into an Ouija board and into the soul of the daughter of an actress? Probably not. What's striking is that how long the movie takes to get there. Scenes of Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) acting take precedence over the sad life of Father Karras, who has to deal with the death of his mother and his increasing lack of faith.When do we realize something is wrong? When it is too late. When Regan (Linda Blair) intrudes on one of her mother's boring parties, pisses on the floor and tells an astronaut "You're gonna die up there." Science can't solve these issues. Detectives cannot. Only the Church can help.What follows is a haunted house of scares that have been imitated ad nauseum (pun intended) so many times that we know the beats: head spinning, pea soup vomit, masturbation with a cross, blood, strange voices, levitation. A priest must show weakness before showing great sacrifice. And in the end, two old men find friendship in the aftermath.As for viewers today, they may be surprised at the sinister power that this movie still holds.
loganalaxanian
This film is one of the greatest horror films of all time for a reason. William Friedkin did an excellent job bringing William Peter Blatty's 1971 novel to life. Not only did this movie keep me awake at night out of fear it also kept me up wondering how they did these amazing effects. The effects were ahead of its time and is one of the reasons why people needed therapy after watching it.
dmetzger22187
It's exactly what everyone wants, but can hardly put a name to. It's creepy, but not overwhelmingly. It's clever, but not trying to be. It's emotional, but not so much you get lost in it. The story is so creatively and perfectly well told that I can't help but gush. It's one of those movies that was directed perfectly, and also has the other cool things that probably just happened by luck. I don't know how to explain it, but its got those super-natural supernatural parts. Awesome. Everyone like the "super-natural supernatural" pun little thing?
