Something almost beyond comprehension is happening to a girl on this street, in this house... and a man has been sent for as a last resort. This man is The Exorcist.
When the subject of iconic horror movies gets brought up,
there is one that almost always tops the list.
When the subject of the most
terrifying films of all time gets brought, it’s also pretty much guaranteed to
top that list as well.
When The Exorcist was released in 1973 it
shook the very ground it stood upon. Nothing like it had ever been presented on
the big screen, and people didn’t know how to react to it. It opened to mixed
reviews, but the general consensus was the same. This was the scariest movie of
all time. Critics didn’t know how to react to it, many of them claiming that it
was a “claptrap” and nothing but “religious schlock” with one general
direction: perverse scares.
Call it what you want, The Exorcist did what every horror
movie strives to do. It horrified, disgusted and revolted. It caused fainting
and vomiting, it caused countless sleepless night and it continues to scare
every subsequent generation since its release. While it garnered plenty of bad
reviews, they did not carry the blow intended by the critics. Calling a horror
movie disgusting, vile and perverse does nothing but to blatantly promote said
horror film, and everything that these critics said was in fact true. It is a
horrible film, but in that is what makes it one of the greatest horror films of
all time.
I will give a bit of a warning, this review will be long.
This is the first major classic that I will be touching upon in this blog so
forgive me, but I have no intention of making this a short one.
Now, please read on.
