The Exorcist (Blu-ray)
The Scariest Film of All Time.
Controversial and popular from the moment it opened, The Exorcist marks its historic Blu-ray premiere in a 2-Disc Edition featuring Stunning Hi-Def Presentations of the Original 1973 Theatrical Version and the 2000 Extended Director's Cut. The frightening and realistic tale of an innocent girl inhabited by a terrifying entity, her mother's frantic resolve to save her and two priests - one doubt-ridden, the other a rock of faith - joined in battling ultimate evil always leaves viewers breathless. This greatest supernatural thriller of all time astonishes and unsettles like no other movie.
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SEE REVIEW - CaptainRhodes
The Exorcist is the kind of movie that makes you want to summon the dead for kicks.
USELESS FACTS:
Ellen Burstyn agreed to doing the movie only if her character didn't have to say the scripted line: "I believe in the devil!" The producers agreed to eliminate the utterance.
John Boorman had been offered the chance to direct, but declined because he felt the storyline was "cruel towards children". He did, however, accept the offer to direct the sequel, Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977).
Mercedes McCambridge had to sue Warner Brothers for credit as the voice of the demon.
Jane Fonda and Shirley MacLaine were approached to play the role of Chris MacNeil. Audrey Hepburn was also approached and only agreed to do it if it was filmed in Rome. Anne Bancroft was another choice but she was in her first month of pregnancy and was dropped.The Finest Horror Film Ever Made - TheDandyist
Without question, the original Exorcist is the finest horror film ever made.
Featuring the perfect mix of suspense, gore, scripture, and scare, the Exorcist does not dissappoint. The opening sequences featuring Max Von Sydow in his Iraqi archaelogy expedition sends chills down my spine, as he begins to unravel an ancient evil that would later become the nemesis, that just may become his undoing.
The cinematography is excellent; as is the score. The scene where he arrives at the house, and leers at the house as the light shines from the window above, is, and will always remain, one of the finest shots in film history.
Do yourself a favour and zip this film if you haven't seen it. Puts all modern horror to shame.Best Horror Film. - sampid
The fact that the movie resists the temptation to jump right into the acknowledgment that Regan is possessed continues to build up the epic Good versus Evil, God versus Satan, the exorcist versus the demon, feel. Like the characters, the movie doesn't want it to be true, it doesn't want to go there and embrace that possibility, but we the audience know what must inevitably happen. And it's almost magical how the movie finally acknowledges Regan's only hope. There's no glorious fanfare nor is there boastful ultimatums, instead the movie lamentingly and silently surrenders to it as we watch Lancaster Merrin walking up the sunny garden path, staring down at a newly delivered envelope. He doesn't have to read it. He already knows what it says, as do we.
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SEE REVIEW - CaptainRhodes
The Exorcist is the kind of movie that makes you want to summon the dead for kicks.
USELESS FACTS:
Ellen Burstyn agreed to doing the movie only if her character didn't have to say the scripted line: "I believe in the devil!" The producers agreed ...The Finest Horror Film Ever Made - TheDandyist
Without question, the original Exorcist is the finest horror film ever made.
Featuring the perfect mix of suspense, gore, scripture, and scare, the Exorcist does not dissappoint. The opening sequences featuring Max Von Sydow in his Iraqi archaelogy ...Best Horror Film. - sampid
The fact that the movie resists the temptation to jump right into the acknowledgment that Regan is possessed continues to build up the epic Good versus Evil, God versus Satan, the exorcist versus the demon, feel. Like the characters, the movie doesn't want ...