The Exorcist
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No. I thought it was boring as crap back in the 70s when I watched it.
I thought the head spinning around was funny as crap.
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mitzi
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This movie was such a big deal at the time. People were flipping out. Crying, scared, couldn't sleep, etc. Nothing had been made like it before. I thought it was good at the time but like you I think the decades of gruesome horror movies have numbed me. I don't even bother watching them anymore.
I couldn't see the movie when it came out because, well, I was 10 years old. But I read the book and it was intense.
Chopticon64
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It had some relevance when religion still played a daily role in most folks lives. Back when the Catholic Church was seen as a continual force pushing against Satan, but today we realize the church was just a pedophile ring.
That movie scared the CRAP out of me, too! 
I'm a big skeerdy cat when it comes to satanic and demonic possession movies, but it was only AFTER I saw that movie (and then Beyond the Door a couple of years later).
My mom loved all things like that - she read all the scary books, the True Crime, True Detective mags and such when we lived overseas (no TV!) Those mags described a lot of crimes of gore and stuff. I could never read those, either. I read the Exorcist book after it came out, I seem to recall it was right before the movie was going to be out.
Anyhoo, I was trying to fact check my dates and discovered The Exorcist book's publication date was May 5, 1971 - my birthday.
Wiki said the movie was released in Dec. 1973, but I'm certain I did NOT see it that early. I know that because we did not move back to southern Maryland until April 1974. While looking it up, I saw that the movie was released to only 25 movie theatres at the time in Dec. 1973. It was showing in more theatres sometime that following summer, which would make sense. My mom took me because she wanted to see it, and I had just read the book and wanted to see it, and she didn't want me to go with anyone else. We saw it at the Leonardtown movie theatre (which is now The Rex).
I got up to go to the bathroom, and missed the part where she was stabbing her wimmen parts with the Crucifix. TYJ.
But the movie scared the ever living sh*t out of me and I've never gone to see any of the others that came out after it.
I'm a big skeerdy cat when it comes to satanic and demonic possession movies, but it was only AFTER I saw that movie (and then Beyond the Door a couple of years later).My mom loved all things like that - she read all the scary books, the True Crime, True Detective mags and such when we lived overseas (no TV!) Those mags described a lot of crimes of gore and stuff. I could never read those, either. I read the Exorcist book after it came out, I seem to recall it was right before the movie was going to be out.
Anyhoo, I was trying to fact check my dates and discovered The Exorcist book's publication date was May 5, 1971 - my birthday.
Wiki said the movie was released in Dec. 1973, but I'm certain I did NOT see it that early. I know that because we did not move back to southern Maryland until April 1974. While looking it up, I saw that the movie was released to only 25 movie theatres at the time in Dec. 1973. It was showing in more theatres sometime that following summer, which would make sense. My mom took me because she wanted to see it, and I had just read the book and wanted to see it, and she didn't want me to go with anyone else. We saw it at the Leonardtown movie theatre (which is now The Rex).I got up to go to the bathroom, and missed the part where she was stabbing her wimmen parts with the Crucifix. TYJ.
But the movie scared the ever living sh*t out of me and I've never gone to see any of the others that came out after it.
Grumpy
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I had heard most of the stories about the exorcism prior to the book. Father Edward Albert Hughes participated in the exorcism that the book was based on and he was the head priest at the church my family attended. He also was a priest at a church that my mother attended prior to marrying my father. My first marriage was performed by him. The rectory where he lived in my teen years was across the street from the gas station that us guys hung out at. He would come over and play poker and drink beer with us in the back room of the gas station. He would have Sunday dinners at our house at least once a month and never busted me out for the beer/poker. Good guy, never bugged any of my friends or me, and he had a wicked sense of humor. All of my friends knew the exorcism story but none of us ever asked him about it.
I wouldn't have been able to resist that.
I don't believe in demonic possession because...I don't believe in demons. Not the supernatural kind anyway. But I'd be fascinated to hear from someone legit who's performed an exorcism.
I wouldn't have been able to resist asking, either!
mitzi
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True. A group of us went to downtown DC to see it.
It's surprising to me that my mom DID. She didn't want me to go see it with anyone else. Lordy. I've always hated horror movies and such. I guess I got scared out of my wits when I was little and my mom would watch all the Alfred Hitchcock shows, and Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone.
Those were all before we moved to Italy in 1967!! (I not yet 8) Scarred me for life, they did! 
The only scary films that go hard on me are zombies. I cannot deal with those.It's surprising to me that my mom DID. She didn't want me to go see it with anyone else. Lordy. I've always hated horror movies and such. I guess I got scared out of my wits when I was little and my mom would watch all the Alfred Hitchcock shows, and Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone.
Slow zombies are one thing. The fast zombies from World War Z are a whole other level of hell.