The Exorcist - Who thinks it's scary?

[geaj]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 10:21pm

Just wondering... I have a feeling people over forty find it terrifying and those younger will find it humorous? Your thoughts....

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 10:24pm

Oh yeah, that must be it.

[futurenala]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 10:26pm

Ive been too scared to watch it.

Updated On: 10/31/07 at 10:26 PM

[CJR]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 10:26pm

I am not exactly a youngun on the board and I'm definitely not over 40, but I am absolutely terrified of this movie. In fact, I was marginally afraid to open this thread for fear there would be a picture of a possessed Linda Blair.

Maybe it's my strict Catholic upbringing that makes this movie so utterly terrifying.... or the fact that this could (and does) actually happen. I'm not sure what it is, but to this day I cannot watch this movie without it scaring the living bejeezus out of me!

[futurenala]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 10:28pm

We were talking about this movie in class.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 10:29pm

I have a feeling people over forty find it terrifying and those younger will find it humorous? Your thoughts....



and todays pick for most moronic post is above......

[CJR]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 10:32pm

I'll give that to ya, Elphaba. Not for nothing, when my cousin was 7, she sat through the Exorcist completely and utterly unphased. I walked into the house, heard it on in the other room and had to leave. Even the music kills me.

[bschneid76]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 10:32pm

It is a truly terrifying film. I got to see the re-release of it, and it scared the crap out of me! It certainly was a one of a kind film experience. Loses a lot of scares on the small screen, but still packs a punch.

[uncageg]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 10:37pm

I am over 40 and and still find the movie unsettling. Not terryfying. When the movie was 1st released, I was not able to see it. I was a year under age. So I saw it for the 1st time when I was in my 20's. I have seen it about 3 times since then and every time I wastch it it gets under my skin.

What I do find a bit "terryfying" is that you think people under 40 will find it humorous. I don't really find anything humorous about the movie.

[misschung]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 10:42pm

That movie really disturbs me. I've seen probably 90% of the horror movies out there, but that one is by far the hardest for me to watch, except maybe Clockwork Orange.

I have a very good friend who saw it and thought it was funny - the part with the crucifix, in particular. She and I are the same age. I think she's the only one I know who has that view though, everyone else that I ask thinks its unsettling. The part with the cross really upset me, and it still does. I can't watch that part

I don't see anything funny about it either, except maybe the spoof in Scary Movie 2.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 10:51pm

didn't phase me at all...loved it, especially loved the music and the little pee scene in the living room was priceless.

[Mamie]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 11:03pm

There is a MAJOR difference in seeing it for the first time, in a darkened movie theatre, on a big screen, with absolutely no preconceived notion of what it is you're in for - and sitting in your living room, watching it on the TV.

Don't even try to compare the experience - it can't be done.

[Jane2]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 11:07pm

Well, I'm over 150 and found it extremely frightening. I"ve seen it too many times to still get that scared, but when her head swivels around, it never fails to creep me out.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 11:07pm

I've only seen it on tv and I think it's the scariest movie I've ever seen. I hate it, but realize how great it is at the same time.

[vbplayer]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 11:07pm

I can watch it....but the sound is what scares the crap out of me.

Have you seen the spiderwalk scene? It's so wrong...........YIKES!

[geaj]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 11:08pm

Well, here was my thinking. People my age, forties, were about eight or nine when it came out. We wanted to see it due to all of the advertising, but we were too young, and most of our parents wouldn't allow it. When I talk to kids about it today, they are so immune to gore that they think it's a funny movie, not a scary one. When I finally saw it as a ninth grader it scared the heck out of me because I had never been exposed to anything like that - hence the question. Moronic, Elphaba, I don't know about that, it was just a question?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 11:10pm

People in their 40s were 8 or 9 when it came out? When do you think it was released?

Ignore Elphaba. He's on a kick to declare several posts a day the "stupidest."

[geaj]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 11:12pm

1972-73.

[D2]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 11:14pm

The movie was released in December 1973. I was 13 and not allowed to see it. So of course I talked my sister's best friend into taking me. Scared the crap out of me, and I haven't seen it since.

[Mamie]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 11:14pm

I used to work in a building that overlooked the Georgetown campus and the alley where the famous stairway was located. We could look out the windows during the day and see the klieg lights on the quad for the filming.

The book was extremely popular and I think there were about 40 of us who were all sharing the same paperback. I was about #27 in the line and I got it at lunch and started reading it. As soon as I got home that night, I took it out and kept on reading. I couldn't put it down! I actually sat up all night reading it and finally finished about 3 am. I was so terrified that I was afraid to go to bed. I couldn't even close my eyes until the sun came up!

When the movie finally came out a group of about a dozen of us went to see it together because none of us wanted to see it alone. I remember sitting in that theatre, all squinched down in my seat, keeping my hand in front of my face and watching it between two fingers. When something particularly terrifying happened (and the music kind of gave it away) then the fingers immediately closed.

I've never been so scared of a movie in my life. Before or since.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 11:18pm

Awww, this makes me go downtown and run down the Exorcist steps.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 11:27pm

I think Exorcist 3 is scary. The Exorcist is intense. Exorcist 2 is funny.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 11:28pm

I saw the movie when I was like 15, I think. I had heard it was terrifying, so I really had myself worked up to see it. I didn't think it scary. By then we had been bombarded with the Jason, Michael and Freddy thing. Had I seen it in a darkend theatre, it might have been worse.

[CJR]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 11:48pm

I saw bits and pieces of it when I was about 9. Ive blocked most of it out, I just remember crying and wishing that I was watching Child's Play instead (which I was also terrified of. I watch that now and it doesn't phase me). When it came out remastered and was re-released in the theaters stupid me went to see it. I dont think I will ever again in my life be so terrified of anything

[uncageg]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 11:52pm

The spiderwalk was not in the original released version. I went to see it in a theater when it was re-released and when Tubular Bells (The first time you hear any soundtrack music in the movie) started as Ellen Burstyn's character is walking home gave me chills beyond belief.