Is the movie The Exorcist possessed?

[Michael_Mayo]

Isn’t “The Exorcist” regarded as, well, a black comedy - a camp classic - on par with “Mommie Dearest” these days?

I can’t say I ever found it to be scary - what’s so scary about a little girl spitting pea soup?

How about the facts that it was based on a true story. Probably though what is more pernicious is the grip that Satan has one some people who otherwise seem normal. I think the mass shootings are the tip of the iceberg.

I remember when the movie came out I think in 1973. I was a freshman in college. i think it helped to sober me up and made me ask myself, “what do I believe?”

 

[IWantGod]

Isn’t “The Exorcist” regarded as, well, a black comedy - a camp classic - on par with “Mommie Dearest” these days?

I can’t say I ever found it to be scary - what’s so scary about a little girl spitting pea soup?

If a little girls head twisted around and started spewing green soup you would be scared.

 

[ineeda]

There was a real Jesuit priest in the movie that was on EWTN. He was on the Aging Gracefully segment. Also, I believe there was a real neurosurgeon that played in the movie.

I was not permitted to see it when it came out in theater. I was 17 at the time. I saw it four years later when it came out again.

 

[IWantGod]

There was a real Jesuit priest in the movie that was on EWTN. He was on the Aging Gracefully segment. Also, I believe there was a real neurosurgeon that played in the movie.

I was not permitted to see it when it came out in theater. I was 17 at the time. I saw it four years later when it came out again.

I’m interested to know the psychological effects it had on you. What was your experience like?

 

[Arizona_Fat_Gir]

Objects cannot be possessed. However, a demonic attachment can exist.

A doll named Annabel, in Lorraine Warren’t Occult Museum is supposedly an evil doll, and she keeps it locked in a cabinet.

If I had such a doll, it would not last a moment in my house.

 

[petra22]

I’m interested to know the psychological effects it had on you. What was your experience like?

My Aunt and Uncle told me not to go see it when I was 17. They said it was evil. I thought to myself “how will I ever know if I don’t go see for myself…?” I snuck off to see it. Guess what? It was evil (for me to see–I was so easily drawn in with the “willing suspense of disbelief” meaning I get so involved in the action of the movie that I put myself in there…). It had a life-long effect on me. I still shudder when I think of it. I wish I had listened to wiser minds who had my best interest at heart… Can’t un-see what I saw. The music still gives me a chill when I hear it… but it was just a movie. CD not possessed. Still, I would throw it far, far away or maybe burn it. But I did that to some nasty books I found in my attic (from a time when I would read ANYTHING…God, forgive me!) Just no reason to have them around…

 

[KevinAK]

Apparently when the movie was first out in the cinema it caused hysteria.

They made the same claims for the 1930’s versions of Dracula and Frankenstein.

And let’s not forget get a little radio show that Orson Welles did in October 1938.

Pretty sure most of this was just hype.

 

[mdgspencer]

I agree that an inanimate object can’t be possessed (though there could be a demonic attachment).

There actually are videos of audience reactions to the showing of “The Exorcist” in the 1970s. See this here if you like, now that the matter of viewing it has come up: [lat(name removed by moderator)ost.com/articles/56359/20150529/the-exorcist-news-watch-footage-of-audience-reactions-to-film-in-1973-42-years-ago-video.htm](http://www.lat(name removed by moderator)ost.com/articles/56359/20150529/the-exorcist-news-watch-footage-of-audience-reactions-to-film-in-1973-42-years-ago-video.htm)

Perhaps it is because my quirky mind, but I find this a bit amusing.

Personally, I was in my 30s when it came out, but wouldn’t see it, myself.

 

[MtnDwellar]

Discard it. What do you have to lose?

 

[mikekle]

Isn’t “The Exorcist” regarded as, well, a black comedy - a camp classic - on par with “Mommie Dearest” these days?

I can’t say I ever found it to be scary - what’s so scary about a little girl spitting pea soup?

Its not scary to most people today because we have all been overly desensitized to stuff like this since then, people back then though, it was extremely frightening, just like the most frightening modern movie, will be pretty tame 20 yrs in the future.