The Exorcist (1973)

And don't lie that you weren't afraid of that screamer

in my opinion, the film has not survived the test of time. the film is not scary at all, only slightly repulsive (although fans of golden rain from little girls will not understand me). only its high citation made this film famous. look at your own risk, but rather worth a look, because you will understand all the quotes on it.

In 2023, watching this movie is frankly boring. Although the acting is good, pleasant characters with personalities, and the atmosphere of those years. You won't find such a thing in modern horror.

Boredom, it was undoubtedly scary for his age, but now it's about nothing.

Reading the comments of the people above, I don't understand them, as for me this film has a great combination of a good plot and acting, yes, the special effects look a little weak ... but you have to understand that the film is 73 years old!!!
The director was able to create an eerie atmosphere. And the plot at that time was experimental. I believe that this work of art, there is no other way to call it, has a place to be in our lives. And understanding people will understand that this film had a strong influence on the development of films of this kind.

This screamer kept all the children in fear...

I've always liked this movie, and I think it can be compared in terms of the intensity of the plot and the acting to Rosemary's Baby. I really sympathize with the people who are bored by these films. All they have to do is watch newfangled action - free American charabikes , and use the language of the Anglo - Saxons , who openly laugh at us and continue to shit on our heads . These "screamers" are not to blame, they do not have a developed sense of taste due to their lack of intelligence. I would advise them to read more and learn our beautiful Russian language.

It's funny how different the perception of films is at different times. I read the news about the new film in the franchise and decided to review the 73-year-old original, which I once rated 8 points. And something didn't go off at all - it doesn't look so scary and creepy anymore, I watched it quite calmly, even with a feeling of boredom. Except that I disliked vomiting. The very structure of the film is disgusting, apparently because of the editing - it's ragged, jumping to different events and introducing new characters, often one can only guess how it came to these events and who this suddenly appeared character in the frame is. The acting is pretty weak. The pace of the narration is very slow. Yeah, I think this movie would have been in the cinema now - it would have been classified as a B movie, or even an arthouse movie, and would have gone unnoticed by most people, and the average score on the same KP would have been 5.

I put off watching it for a very long time, because even those small fragments that came across scared me terribly. But the film is an absolute classic and it is impossible to analyze the genre and its development without checking the Exorcist, so I sat myself down according to all the rules to watch it - at night, without a phone and other distracting moments.

And here I disagree with the commentators, who are not afraid. Maybe it was the horrors of the 00s and beyond, with an abundance of dismemberment and screamers at every turn, that dulled our sense of fear. And the creeps of the early Internet hardened us by forgiving us.)

But for me, the film holds the bar, I was both creepy and scared, and in some places disgusted by makeup.

Yes, the exposition seems a little long (I watched the director's version, maybe an extra 10 minutes flew in here), but as if this is a sign of the regularity of cinema 50 years ago. But how much better this long-term illness looks, you have time to feel how long and painful it is to make a diagnosis, and to what state everyone is brought to seriously consider treatment with exorcism (the doctor suggested, by the way). It seems to me that the followers who remove this trope about obsession are in too much of a hurry for the sake of quick entertainment and lose realism even where it could be preserved.

Although the movie is very old, I had never seen it before, I knew the plot, of course. The film is somewhat delayed in the first half. Perhaps just typical for its time, but unusually slow in modern eyes. At the same time, the final part is quite intense. It was interesting and disturbing to watch it. The girl was made up very scary.) In general, it's not bad as an introduction to retro classics, when you take many strange moments for granted only because of the age of the film.