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About The Exorcist

• For me THE EXORCIST still remains the scariest, or at least most disturbing movie I have ever seen, even after the watching the documentaries.

• THE EXORCIST 25th anniversary edition (VHS) contains the movie plus the documentary 'The Fear of God - The making of The Exorcist'. Go scare yourselves!!!

• The DVD version is also worth a look as it contains some quite interesting commentaries by Freidkin and Blatty and there are some sound tests of Mercedes McCambridge making some strange noises too! Although the documentary features on the DVD it is a shortened version of the one on the UK VHS version.

• 'The Version You've Never Seen' contains the 'Spider Walk' (spookier than I expected!) and the original ending., well worth a look, includes the first hospital visit (eerie), a conversation between Karras and Merrin during the break from the exorcism, the original ending, and not forgetting the spiderwalk or course! There are a few more subliminals too.

Previously - The Exorcists' History:

Pre-release:

The BBFC say in their commentary 'THE EXORCIST should be classified - but at a level which minimises the likelihood of the work being viewed by young and impressionable persons'. For the full commentary click on one of the links below.

What the BBFC said before the UK release

What the BBFC say about the release

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About the movies

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The Exorcist:

THE EXORCIST is the story of a twelve year old girl who becomes possesed by the devil in order to test the faith of those around her. It is in my opinion clearly the best film ever made, and for it's time (1973) the special effects (all mechanically achieved with the exception of the flying vomit) are excellent and realistic enough to believe what is happening.

I wouldn't class this film as horror as many do, I'm not really sure what to class it as particularly as the Catholic Church still use the film as a training aid!

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Exorcist II

THE EXORCIST was followed, rather diappointingly four years later by EXORCIST II - THE HERETIC, which focuses on the nightmares that Regan has been having and a Preist who has been assigned to investigating Father Merrins' death in the first movie. Has anyone seen this movie? What is the reason behind the flashing at the end, is the whole movie in hypnosis? Let me know your views!

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Exorcist III

After the flop of EXORCIST II, EXORCIST III came along in 1990 which ignored THE HERETIC and carried on where the original film left off. This movie, based on William Peter Blattys' Legion, picks up on the relationship between Detective Kinderman and Father Dyer, and involves Detective Kinderman 'studying' Patient X in a psychiatric hospital, who bears a resemblance to Father Karras and the Gemini Killer!!!

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