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The Exorcist: Extended Director's Cut (Limited Edition SteelBook) [Blu-ray]

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All my life I have heard about "The Exorcist" and how terrifying it was. I recently bought it on dvd and was very disappointed. There were only a couple of interesting scenes involving Linda Blair. The rest was very boring. This movie was probably seen as scary when it first came out, but anyone my age who is 18-24 and grew up watching "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "Hellraiser", "Phantasm", etc, will not like this movie. Im not saying that a horror movie has to be very graphic, because I do like the lesss graphic movies like Bram Stoker's Dracula and the original Frankenstein, but The Exorcist is not worth your money if you are looking for a good scare. The Exorcist is honestly the most boring movie I have ever seen. If you really want to be scared, check out the Phantasm series- particularly part 3.

I know that everyone thinks that the exorcist is the best film ever made, but now I have seen it, I think that it is complete & utter CRAP!!! I was really looking forward to seeing it because of what I had heard about it, but when I finally saw it, I found it disappointing & not scary at all, and I saw the uncut version and I am only 13!!!

Ifn this is the scariest movie, then people are scared really, really easy. Disney's "Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" is scarier than this. This is a long movie, that could be shortened to half an hour and be sufficient. Only scary if you're highly catholic.

I don't see what's so scary about this movie. Maybe it's because I'm an athiest that this doesn't scare me like I was assured it would. Everyone I know and countless reviews have said that this was the scariest movie ever, and I was really letdown when it was just a long, boring, and frankly silly Christian flick. I also read that it might offend you if it didn't scare you. This movie didn't bother me in any way, aside from making me sleepy. It was the same story with Rosemary's Baby, another big letdown for me. I almost don't want to see The Omen for fear of another dissappointment. Once again, I'm an athiest, so this might be scarier for a religous person. That's all I have to say about that.

This movie is a work of darkness. Coming from satan.

This movie produces no fruit, and is unprofitable for gaining faith towards God. William Peter Blatty says that this movie will help your faith in God, but it won't. It will only make you despair.

If you wan't to see a movie that will help you have faith in God, then watch Mel Gibsons "The Passion of the Christ."

This movie is obscene, gross and dirty. Especially having 12-year-old Linda Blair, a child doing those grotesque things. What kind of adult would allow a child to say and do those wicked things, even for the sake a making a movie?

Perversion. I wouldn't allow my kids or my parents or friends to see this wickedness. If you want to have faith in God, you don't need to watch a movie that's filled with kitsch, shlock, and profanity. Just get out your King James Bibles.

And another thing. You don't need to go through a "Roman Ritual" to expel unclean spirits. That whole exorcism scene was a waste of time. Read Mark chapter 5, in your King James Bible.

This movie scared the living day-lights out of me. I haven't watch it, or another horror movie since.

I just don't understand the avid adoration of this film! It's right up there with the over-rated "Amityville Horror"...neither one of these films is scary or even necessarily watchable. Yes I watched it alone. And at night. I was bored out of my mind.

It's graphic. It's necessarily rated R. It's about a little girl who gets posessed for some reason that no one wants to share with us. And um...that's about it.

The makeup and special effects are laughably bad and haven't stood up well to time--maybe people think this was good for the 70's? I've seen better from back then. I'm old!
Why is a fake rotating head scary? I know this film is from the 70's. I know it's a "classic". I know Avacado was a really popular color back then, but PLEASE people, vomit is rarely--if ever--bright green. And I'm still trying to figure out why a demon would make a kid pee on the floor. What does that have to do with ANYTHING? Why is that scary?!!

I don't feel anything for these characters. What did this kid do to get posessed in the first place? I'm pretty sure it doesn't happen like that... don't you have to invite that sort of thing on yourself? Why do people always assume that demons care what religion you are? That demons would care about religious stuff at all for that matter? I think 99% of this film was done for shock value which is the ONLY reason it's a cult classic.

Please, for the love of God, watch the original 1960's version of "Psycho" or "The Changeling" or "Jaws"...just watch something else! There are so many other good movies that are worth watching.

As for me, I want my two hours back.

When I first saw this film by Director William Friedkin and William Peter Blatty at the age of 9, I couldn't help but laugh at how absurd this film was. The notion that peoples are somehow possessed by evil spirits seeking to wage a war against a supremely good absolute deity seemed obviously preposterous even then.

Perhaps it was intentionally done to make it mysterious, but the audience is never informed why the demonic entity chose the young girl played by Linda Blair. I must say that Jason Miller and Max von Sydow played their roles well as the priests and Ellen Burstyn convincingly portrayed a skeptical but desperate mother.

The unfortunate thing about the film is its portrayal of ignorant religious mumbo jumbo rituals as being an effective way of curing what are obviously serious psychiatric disorders. Perhaps the film should have also shown how religious entities successfully performed exorcisms in the past by drowning, burning at the stake, and simply torturing to death "possessed" peoples to chase the demons out: peoples such as Joan of Arc whom the Church somewhat apologetically cannonized almost five hundred years later. Indeed, we must remind ourselves of the very reliable scientific methods of the Church that convinced countless peoples for centuries (through regular threats and acts of excommunication/ostracism, death, and/or torture of course)that the Earh was only 10,000 years old, flat, and at the center of our solar system. The movie should also show the success rates primitive societies have in curing medical conditions with similar rituals and the life expectancies of their inhabitants. With such an insight, the idea of exorcisms as cures will be the only thing to be seen as horrifying in horror films such as this one.

I really don't know why, but I though this was kinda funny. Don't go by me though. What I will say is if you're a fan of horror flicks, this will scare the living daylights outta you. So scared that you might even consider refunding/trading it in. That is the only way I can see you wasting your money. If you were a fan of the original, this one has added scenes to "enhance" the experience. A lot of people also say this movie was the start of blasphemy. Rent it, see how it is.

I brought the special edition on video just because it might scare me and I thought half of the movie wasn't scary. There were just a bit few scenes that were scary and those scenes are the Spiderwalk scene and the scene were the girl's head is twisting. I thought this horror movie was dumb and it didn't even scare me. I thought it was kind of funny actually because in the movie Scary Movie 2 they make fun of this movie and that's why it didn't scare me. It does have good acting, best special effects. But the whole movie wasn't scary and it didn't give me nightmares. So if you plan on seeing this movie you won't get scared. I guess back in the old days in the late 70's everybody was scared when they saw this movie but it didn't scare me. If you want to see a good horror flick go see The Others.

Stupid!Stupid!Stupid! Dumb, pointless hard to watch without falling asleep. Bad acting.This has to be the worst movie ever!!