Blatty Gone Batty- Page 2

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 8/7/13 at 12:34pm

I love that children these days think they know scary.....


People were throwing up in the theaters! It was seeing someone vomit onscreen that made their gag reflex react and people were up chucking everywhere.

And Mr. Blatty has always been crazy. And the money he made from the movie only made it worse.

[justincharacter]

Posted: 8/7/13 at 12:37pm

Seen A Serbian Film, forgot about that one. I have heard and read about Cannibal Holocaust many times, weren't there some sort of rumors that they actually were murdering people while filming?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/7/13 at 12:38pm

When I finally saw BOYS IN THE BAD, I thought, 'Oh...it's THE EXORCIST with lisps!'

You're right! Merrin's arrival is just like Harold's!

[tazber]

Posted: 8/7/13 at 12:42pm

Yes, there were those rumors.

They started because Deodato filmed a scene in which a real living animal which was butchered and eaten.

Updated On: 8/7/13 at 12:42 PM

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 8/7/13 at 12:43pm

[tazber]

Posted: 8/7/13 at 12:47pm

Lol Borstal.

But to be clear, none of those graphic films I listed are "scary".

Just overly violent.

Scary, to me, is Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, Don't Look Now.


Films with a sense of impending dread and dripping with atmosphere.

[artscallion]

Posted: 8/7/13 at 12:55pm

I consider the original Alien movie to be one of the scariest movies for that very reason, Taz. Not for the baby alien bursting through the guy's stomach. But for all the creeping around wondering what will drop from the ceiling. They actually showed very little of the alien in the first film. Mostly endless anticipation of it jumping out at them.

[tazber]

Posted: 8/7/13 at 12:57pm

Agreed 100% scallion.

It's one of my top 10 favorite horror movies!

[justincharacter]

Posted: 8/7/13 at 1:03pm

After watching short glimpses of Halloween III, I never knew what it was really about.

[tazber]

Posted: 8/7/13 at 1:08pm

It's about a company that sells Halloween masks. On Halloween all the children who wear their masks will have their faces melt off and die when a commercial plays on TV.

It has no connection with the Micheal Myers character. It was intended to turn the franchise into a series of standalone films (like longer Twilight Zones) which would be released every year.

When it flopped they went back to the Micheal Myers character.

Halloween 4-6 are bizarre and supposedly a character arc for Micheal involving Druids or something like that. They make zero sense and have no continuity.

[justincharacter]

Posted: 8/7/13 at 1:19pm

I watched Halloween 6 and I didn't understand where the other characters came from...

Neither did I understand where Jamie and her sister came from. I enjoyed the 4th and 5th one.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 8/7/13 at 1:24pm

I vomit on Blatty. Green.

What a hateful douche! I shouldn't be surprised though. He still believes in posession! I always thought he only expressed that to sell more copies of the dvds.

Still, I can't deny he wrote two great books.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/7/13 at 3:36pm

People were throwing up in the theaters! It was seeing someone vomit onscreen that made their gag reflex react and people were up chucking everywhere.

What's the name of the movie, I think with Burt Reynolds, where he throws up on a coffee table, but the camera angle is from underneath the coffee table?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 8/8/13 at 2:32pm

Are you talking about The End? He doesn't throw up on a coffee table, but spits out the mouthful of pills and liquid he contemplates swallowing.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 8/8/13 at 3:02pm

I actually have/had friends at Georgetown University who have been working for LGBTQ equality (as in covering all the bases of the spectrum which has included trans-student rights) and have to deal with a lot of alums like him waving their fists constantly. They have made a lot of progress despite bigots like him trying to get in their all things considering.

"Oh yeah. A few weeks ago when I was all raving about how much I love the Jesuit spirit of questioning authority, I was thinking how Blatty seemed to miss that part in HIS Jesuit lust."

Oh, that mentality of questioning everything the Jesuit way is still on campus. Updated On: 8/8/13 at 03:02 PM

[strummergirl]

Posted: 8/8/13 at 3:21pm

Well since this got into horror movies:

A Serbian film is just shock. Not scary. You want to place the director in a holding cell for psychiatric evaluation more than anything and also have him take a civics lesson on the history of his country. I can un-hear and un-see some things from that movie.

The Exorcist suffers in the fact the first act in setting up stuff when it has little to do with Regan seems just... cheesy. Mainly, the movie on-location at Georgetown, etc. Did Ellen Burstyn need to be playing an actress? In Washington DC of all places? You can say that Takashi Miike's Audition had a flat first act but to me that seemed so purposely going for misdirection so it can pin you down in Act 3 because...... I am getting breathless just thinking about what happened there. Even as somebody raised in Catholicism, The Exorcist did not really impact me like other horror although I blame the fact I was born long after it was a thing. I feel like Ken Russell's The Devils is more envelope-pushing in ways Blatty would not dare (Priests are the heroes in The Exorcist, after all) on the subject of religion. That director's cut is never seeing the light of day.

Original Evil Dead: Love it. The tree rape scene is the one that did it for Raimi with the censors. It is a shocking sequence but the independent, guerrilla film-making spirit with the crazy camera angles still make it hold up. I still find it scary but I know plenty of people who hate it or thought it aged poorly.

Don't Look Now (Netflix Instant that one!), Rosemary's Baby, and Zulawski's Possession are these artful, off-beat horror movies but so absorbing. You buy the weirdness.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 8/8/13 at 3:41pm

Remember that it's a film of a very popular book. Chris is an actress in the book. Being on location for the film is the reason they are not in their own home, come across Ouija, etc. I never thought that was cheesy.

[suestorm]

Posted: 8/8/13 at 3:54pm

Classic Movie. I thought Emily Rose was scarier though

[tazber]

Posted: 8/8/13 at 3:59pm

I never found any of it cheesy either. I actually think the film is absolutely brilliant.

I revisit it all the time and every single viewing sucks me in completely.

Friedkin's direction is masterful.

Oh yea, I forgot to toss in the French horror film "Inside" when I listed those graphic movies.
There were some scenes in that one that had me cringing in pain.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 8/8/13 at 4:51pm

Taz, I'm with you. Despite the goings-on, I always thought it had that 70s almost verite feel.

My bf, incidentally, is a bit younger than me and grew up on later, much more "horrific" horror films, and "The Exorcist" scared the pea soup out of him, too.

I think the fact that the effects aren't CGI is part of why it's so effective. Whether or not they're completely convicing (like the head spinning), they're happening right in front of the actors, and their reactions transmit to the audience. Someone's body is actually rising in the air in front of them; the room is actually cold. It conveys a "reality" that post-production can't always duplicate.







Updated On: 8/8/13 at 04:51 PM

[artscallion]

Posted: 8/8/13 at 6:09pm

And it made me discover and fall in love with the amazing talent that is Ellen Burstyn.

Updated On: 8/8/13 at 06:09 PM

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 8/8/13 at 6:14pm

I think the fact that the effects aren't CGI is part of why it's so effective.

[insert Star Wars rant]

The Exorcist is still the only horror movie that gave me nightmares. I've seen a LOT of horror movies and I've never found gratuitous violence and/or torture porn "scary" or entertaining, so I'm pretty skeptical about the effectiveness of most horror films I see. I don't care if the film is obscure or trendy. I don't care if it's indie or mainstream. If it makes me giddy with tension, then it works. And the way Exorcist was directed, produced and edited, I have never EVER been able to sit through the entire film in one sitting. The difference between it and other films I can't sit through is, I always return to The Exorcist to finish it. I find it intense, but I still enjoy it. Like a really rough wooden roller coaster. It's thrilling for the full 3-4 minutes of the bone-rattling ride, but I couldn't take an hour of it continuously.

I've seen films far more gruesome and violent, and even films I find much more disturbing based on content I may find offensive or objectionable (I will never watch Looking For Mr. Goodbar again after seeing that final scene one time). The Exorcist just completely rattles me. I think the only other films that came close to having the same effect on me were The Omen and Natural Born Killers.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 8/8/13 at 6:16pm

"Remember that it's a film of a very popular book. Chris is an actress in the book. Being on location for the film is the reason they are not in their own home, come across Ouija, etc. I never thought that was cheesy."

Yeah cheesy was not the right word. I put it more on Blatty who seemed to be very into the Georgetown connection. My general complaints had nil to do with Friedkin, who did a masterful job.

"Oh yea, I forgot to toss in the French horror film "Inside" when I listed those graphic movies."

I've actually have avoided it because the people I know who saw it thought it was too much. That and Martyrs.