The Exorcist

[pcg79]

Any of you seen this? What do you think? Scary?

I'm just asking because its on Channel4 on Saturday and I was thinking of taping it [but im a real fraidy-cat :/]

 

[Testin da Cable]

I've seen the revamped version and the old one (the oldie when I was 10 or so - teh eep!)
they're medium scary I guess, so get yourself all prepared with lots of darkness, candles and munchies!!

 

[Embattle]

Saw it, didn't think any thing of it and that was about 10 years ago.

 

[Fex]

Got it on video a while ago, watched it once or twice and it is a good film, just not as scary as i was lead to belive, I think it's more disturbing than scary. Well worth a watch though.

 

[old.tRoG]

Not particularly scary, but worth a watch.

 

[Jonaldo]

Only real scary bit is the kind of subliminal face that appears for a split second and you're just left thinking 'er? did I imagine that?'. Scary face it is too

 

[Sar]

Saw the original, and then the newer version.

S'ok, not scary at all. More unintentionally funny and interesting tbh.

 

[SoWat]

The original was very scary when it was released; not to mention controversial (It was to horror what 'Last Tango in Paris' was to sex).

These days it's not very scary at all, as we've all got used to seeing horrible things on our tellys*








* and I don't mean Richard and Judy

 

[old.tRoG]

Originally posted by SoWat

* and I don't mean Richard and Judy

I watch that almost every day

The Excorcist is good fun, though. Lots of head spinning stylee moves.

 

[Tom]

Originally posted by Jonaldo
Only real scary bit is the kind of subliminal face that appears for a split second and you're just left thinking 'er? did I imagine that?'. Scary face it is too

Where is that then?

 

[WPKenny]

One face flashes up, if I can remember the film from years ago, when the priest is crossing the road. I think he's just come out of the subway or something.

I didn't think much of the film tbh. Maybe because it's been parodied so many times it's just not scary any more.

I read "possesed" which is supposedly the diary of the priest involved in the true story that the film was based on. That's quite freaky.

 

[pcg79]

kenny cam

 

[~Lazarus~]

Originally posted by pcg79
kenny cam

now THATS scary!!!

 

[~Mobius~]

Yeah I'm going to watch it. Blair Witch was a bit scary, Wickerman and Bram Stokers Dracula wasnt though.
Hope it doesnt start before 10pm otherwise I'll miss it.

 

[Yoni]

Originally posted by ~Mobius~
Yeah I'm going to watch it. Blair Witch was a bit scary

for me that is nothing more than 3 people running round in the woods screaming. I fell asleep within the first half hour

 

[old.Dillinja]

Originally posted by ~Mobius~
Yeah I'm going to watch it. Blair Witch was a bit scary, Wickerman and Bram Stokers Dracula wasnt though.
Hope it doesnt start before 10pm otherwise I'll miss it.

Watched Japanese Ring last night thought it was average. Better than the yank version but still not brilliant, creepy in places but never scary.

 

[S-Gray]

Im just wondering... this movie was actually based on a real life event wasnt it?

But... im curious... what happened (head spins etc) was fake surely? but no one i guess would ever know

 

[tris-]

i thought it was quite scary when i was about 11. but i also got some condition where when my heart beats it makes me feel like im moving and one time i thought my bed was shakin like on the film hehe. i think most of the stuff in the film is made up but the idea was from a true event. for the lads head to spin irl like that he would need the str of a whole man in just his neck muscles then he would die instantly after i would of thought.

 

[old.Dillinja]

It's a girl not a boy.

 

[.Cask]

Watched all of the exorcist films one after the other on my own at a friends house while everyone else was asleep. Only scary bits I can rememer are in the first film when her head turns 360 and in the third (I think) and that old person crawls across the ceiling.

Not that I like horror films or anything. Even today you couldn't force me to sit down and watch nightmare on elm street or anything with that freddy guy. My sister made me watch the first one when I was 8 or something and I didn't sleep properly for months afterwards. Still don't

 

[tris-]

Originally posted by old.Dillinja
It's a girl not a boy.

irl im sure it was meant to be a boy. they used a girl in the film because of some agreement with the family or something.

 

[~Mobius~]

Well it's on now but I'm not watching it alone.

 

[Stazbumpa]

Probably more "horrific" than "scary" tbh. Not a bad film though, certainly a landmark movie though.

 

[echo]

That's the difference between Horror and Thriller, no?

 

[Scouse]

I think it's excellent. But TBH you have to believe in god/the devil to be scared by it...

I was in my youth - and I dare say if I watched it alone, in the dark now it'd still poo me up to walk up the unlight staircase to bed afterwards...




/scientist inside Scouse makes "tutting" sound..

 

[WPKenny]

Originally posted by tris-
irl im sure it was meant to be a boy. they used a girl in the film because of some agreement with the family or something.

Yeah, the story comes from a boy who was possesed.