Have you seen "The Exorcist"?

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Simple question, just out of curiosity šŸ˜ƒ

Its finally dark outside and im gonna watch it for the first time šŸæ :dancing:
 
Yes and Exorcist II (not as good as the original) as well as the remake (bad).
 
Yes. Such a good movie. Actually, I know someone who was a lapsed catholic, saw the film, and the scene where the priest is serving mass man him reconsider the faith, and led him back to the Church.
 
Ive seen the majority of it and I was kind of sad about the ending.
 
No, I have not seen it. Iā€™m not sure I want to either since Iā€™m pretty sure itā€™s just gonna creep me out for a few nights like the one movie about Emily Rose! O_O
 
suko said:
No, I have not seen it. Iā€™m not sure I want to either since Iā€™m pretty sure itā€™s just gonna creep me out for a few nights like the one movie about Emily Rose! O_O
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:D:frighten:

I saw The Exorcist. I did like it. I like William Blatty (sp?) he also directed The Ninth Configuration, which I love!

This movie is done in a certain taste, I think. Not sure about Emily Rose?
 
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Simple question, just out of curiosity :D[SIGN][/SIGN]

Its finally dark outside and im gonna watch it for the first time šŸæ :dancing:
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The first one is quite decent. Except for the ending, which doesnt make much sense. I felt mostly sorrow for the girl being possessed. Another decent movie is The Rite (though a bit morr disturbing).

There is a big issue with modern movies about exorcism: the horror part. Good exorcism movies are not supposed to be scary. Disturbing, but not scary. There is much nonsense in many modern movies, like the devil can do whatever he wants.
 
Watched it for the first time about 12 yrs ago. Husband was working 3rd shift, kids were in bed, we lived in the middle of no whereā€¦HUGE MISTAKE! Lol!! It was a great scare!
 
This is one of the only ā€œhorrorā€ movies I like. One thing about Hollywood ā€“ when a little girl is possessed, they donā€™t go looking for a southern Baptist or Pentecostal preacher ā€“ even Hollywood knows to bring in the Big Guns of a Priest of the Catholic Church!! šŸ™‚
 
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This is one of the only ā€œhorrorā€ movies I like. One thing about Hollywood ā€“ when a little girl is possessed, they donā€™t go looking for a southern Baptist or Pentecostal preacher ā€“ even Hollywood knows to bring in the Big Guns of a Priest of the Catholic Church!! šŸ™‚
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Great point!
Mary.
 
Not the whole thing but we studied the story itā€™s based off of in theology class and it was pretty scary
 
Wowā€¦ the movie was epic. i sooo wish i could have been there seeing it as it was modern. The effects are pretty old so its not AS scary anymore. But it still had that real ā€œterrorā€ feeling about it :eek: I love that we got to follow the WHOLE incident from the start to the finish line, instead of just getting thrown into an already out of hand situation like in ā€œThe Riteā€.

I truly recommend this movie.
ā€œThe riteā€ awell :rolleyes:
 
Thereā€™s a lot going on in the film that lifts it above a standard ā€œhorror movie,ā€ I think.

Fr. Damien Karrasā€™s last name Blatty adapted from ā€œCaritasā€ (Christian love of humanity, charity) and his first name came from Saint Damian, one of two twin priests who ministered as medical doctors (as Fr. Karras is in the movie - heā€™s a Jesuit psychiatrist), as well as St. Damien of Molokai, who ministered to lepers in Hawaii before contracting their disease himself (as Fr. Karras takes the demon into himself to free the suffering girl, before falling to his death.) I think Jason Miller (who was best known as a playwright before appearing in this movie - he wrote ā€œThat Championship Seasonā€) gave an amazing performance.

Unlike most straight-up horror films, thereā€™s a lot of nuance in character and relationships. Thereā€™s a good view of the Jesuit collegiality in how Karrasā€™s friend and fellow priest (played by a real priest, incidentally) looks after him throughout the film and gives him the last rites. The sense of foreboding in the opening scenes in Iraq, and Fr. Merrinā€™s sense that his last battle with the forces of evil is coming. There are some really memorable characters, like Lee J. Cobbā€™s police detective or the insulting Irish director played by Jack MacGowan (who I remembered best as the toady for Squire Danaher in ā€œThe Quiet Manā€). Ellen Burstyn did a great job showing the panic and confusion of a woman who doesnā€™t know what is going on or how to how to help her daughter. The relationship between her and Fr. Karras is well done - they are interested in each other, but not really sexually - they play off a mutual fascination with someone who is completely outside their usual scope of acquaintances (Hollywood film star and Jesuit priest).

Often overlooked is the place the Eucharist has in the film - after Fr. Karras goes to see his mother and deals with his own sorrows, and before a confrontation with the possessed girl, we see him celebrate the Eucharist - and thereā€™s a sense that he is fully involved in the moment of the Sacrament, that it is a moment of peace and strength for him between his trials, even as he fears he is losing his faith (which Blatty has said was the intent of the scene.)
 
I thought it was a good movie, and it didnā€™t scare me (though I remember watching it in a theater full of screaming people!).

The Emily Rose movie, on the other hand, bothered me quite a bit. I didnā€™t sleep well for a long time after that one,
 
I read the original book, which was pretty scary all by itself, and based on an actual exorcism of a young boy. The only thing distracting about the plot is the character of the young priest. The older priestā€“Merrinā€“is a believable exorcist. The younger priest would never be allowed into an actual exorcism in any diocese!
 
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