Quentin Tarantino on The Exorcist

Quentin Tarantino reacts to William Friedkin's 1973 masterpiece The Exorcist.
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[@Hafsol65]

One of the film's most poignant moments occurs when Chris asks Karras if her daughter will die, and he simply replies, "No." Karras isn’t offering polite reassurance or telling her what she wants to hear-he truly means it. The film is not merely about exorcism or possession but about the emotional and spiritual battles we all face.

[@Njbear7453]

should’ve won best picture

[@mosskey]

The Oscars doesn't mean shit tbh. There are no awards that mean anything except to agents

[@CorbCorbin]

@@mosskey How dare you?!? I earned my participation champion award, for trying my hardest.

[@ricomajestic]

By a mile!

[@tobingallawa3322]

Friedkin was a genius. Saw The Exorcist on video when I was 15. Only movie ever gave me nightmares. If Tarantino still shows this on Saturday nights in October at his movie theater, I would definitely make it part of a trip to LA

[@SLA1975AMA]

I’ve seen this movie a hundred times and I feel the same sense of dread every time. To me it’s not just a horror movie. I put it in the same category as the godfather as far as great movies go.

[@karanvirkooner1993]

The Exorcist(1973) is a masterpiece

[@selinakyle2368]

Just ask Mark Kermode

[@seltonk5136]

It's no good as Leonard part 6

[@juanmanuelbaccino]

No doubt, i am starting to believe that we live in this home we call earth or gaia...whatever the nam is, here among and between common people and great people. I dont want to sound fascist or some other way. BUT, the same way... that we have unforgetable movies, Greaters Movies. The problem present us (viewers, directors, common people...) when we have a terrible movie and we have good or A Very Good Momento! ¿ok? Well that is something that we must tolerate. Thanks.

[@uremadbro]

The Exorcist III (1990) is a great sequel

[@joerestivo6212]

💪💪nice

[@feathermorren4456]

the moment that always got under my skin was when karras is first brought to see regan. Karl is outside of her bedroom door and as they approach he gives the news "it doesn't want straps". He called regan "it" to her mother. This speaks about the evolution that went on in the house, at that point they were calling her daughter "it" without flinching.

[@Scottocaster6668]

Even Chris McNeil said: "And I'm telling you that that Thing upstairs isn't my Daughter!!"

[@polyglot12]

'The Exorcist' succeeds most from the fact that it is first and foremost a well made dramatic film. It takes its characters seriously and invests you in their situation. It builds its horror in layers rather than hitting you all at once with jump scares. And then it just goes balls-out wild with its (at the time) innovative special effects. And then gives you an emotional ending! It's a hell of a good character driven, well-acted film, plain and simple.

[@Danjoker.]

Exactly! What a lot of the sequels, reboots, etc, always fail to do to it's incorporating those human elements in the film. They focus more on the shock factor and cheap scares, rather than creating characters that feel real. What I love so much about the original is the relationship of the mother and daughter, and her complete desperation of trying to save her, as well as father Karras struggle to regain his faith, while at the same time dealing with the guilt of losing his mother. It's all perfectly written and acted. It deserves all the praise that it has been given.

[@polyglot12]

@@Danjoker. That's the highlight of a lot of the 70's movies - the emphasis on character first to drive the story from there. 'The Godfather' works for that reason. 'Annie Hall'. Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver' gives you a look into a twisted mind in depth before becoming a shoot out. You're more invested then.

[@thoth8784]

Ikr. What a lovely day for an Exorcism.

[@AndrewWilliams-v1f]

Perfect film perfect horror film , taps in to the subconscious results of waning religious belief in the latter part of the 20th century, only part of it that made me shout then laugh was believing there’s rats in the loft when it sounds like a 900lb grizzly moving a wardrobe around😂

[@edwarddore7617]

All the relationships in the film feel genuine. Especially the younger priest, with the guilt about his mother (I also like the fact that he tells the mother to get psychiatric help first). Also you really feel like her and Linda blair are mother and daughter.

[@warrenwhitman3005]

The Exorcist 3 was GREAT

[@jesterforhire]

Jeffrey Dahmer loved it. Used to replay it over and over.

[@starshiplazyboy475]

It was a total surprise how good that movie was.

[@jhamler1]

Seriously. It's a masterpiece. You gotta watch it twice, though.

[@MicahMicahel]

@@starshiplazyboy475are you trolling? People say they love that movie. Prince of Darkness is another movie I cant get into. People say they are good but they just seem crappy.

[@josephrother7950]

George C. Scott makes that movie so damn good lol

[@tikitavi7120]

I remember seeing this as a teenager when it first came out. There were literally people in the audience throwing up, crying, and screaming in absolute terror.

[@louispacetime1576]

That’s insane!!

[@90whatever]

People were a weird combination of very tough but also soft and fragile back then. We have been toughened by seeing so much gore and horror in the news and on film.

[@sixtynine2856]

​@@90whateverOn the flip side we all have safe spaces now. 😂

[@marcoadan1]

Snuck down to the spare room in the middle of the night to watch this when I was a child. One of the worst decisions of my life. I couldn't sleep for weeks.

[@mykelhawkmusic]

Dude. I had that exact experience when I was a kid.

[@ciaradonnelly4627]

Salem's Lot had the same effect on me

[@1bcordell]

I felt the same after my Mom took me to see Nightmare on Elm Street.

[@mykelhawkmusic]

@1bcordell that one and The Shining. After the lady in the bathtub scene, I refused to take a bath for at least a month.

[@AndyBibel]

Yup... did the EXACT same thing - regretted it for years!

[@Levipaulsen]

How the Exorcist ruined my life, One of it's promotional posters fell on my windshield while I was driving and I hit a pedestrian

[@grababookfromthelibrary8374]

Seriously?

[@CorbCorbin]

@@grababookfromthelibrary8374 Hell, I fell down them stairs, just trying to get a picture there.

[@scaredy-cat2215]

😭😭 bahahahhahaa

[@jesterforhire]

I’m so sorry.

[@DoroteoVilla]

God works in mysterious ways. The devil is more direct.

[@yamahasuperbike2202]

50 years later, this movie still scares the shit out of me.

[@kevinwhelan9607]

Jason Miller was a playwright who had never acted before - his performance was extraordinary.

[@gogetavsvegito]

Very fond memories of this movie. One of My earliest memories is my parents sneaking me in to see it when I was 4 by pretending I was asleep. Good thing I did fall asleep through it tho all i remember was the “boring” beginning part of it and waking up at home lol thank God I can’t imagine seein that on the big screen as a kid.

[@lpadron13]

If one takes evil seriously one has to take The Exorcist seriously as well.

[@ToThePointCT]

I agree I also take good seriously too. And good prevails

[@midnightmosesuk]

Everyone is a catholic when they watch The Exorcist.

[@kevinwhelan9607]

A superb film and deeply moving. William Peter Blatty, William Friedkin, Jason Miller RIP❤❤❤

[@charlesbronson4282]

The darkest, heaviest, evilist film of ALL TIME...

[@davidfrost901]

I feared this film. I eventually went to see it at a multiplex on Saturday October 31st 1998 just after its ban was lifted in the UK. My feelings after watching The Exorcist... uplifted. Good won at a cost for this girl, and they gave their lives to do it. She was saved because of the father and priest faith in a mercifull god.

[@thoth8784]

Now that's an interesting reaction.

[@garrybaldy327]

It was never banned at the cinema, only on video

[@coreyhall1150]

Thefe was NOTHING uplifting about that thing..... Good lost. Evil triumphs over good. It made god look weak and evil look crazy strong.. I walked away from it feeling depressed I do not fear the devil tho.

[@louispacetime1576]

I remember the first time I saw this movie I was SO scared that I literally thought I’d never be happy again. I felt like there was no hope anymore lol. What a powerful movie it is!

[@GCKelloch]

Just watched it again last week. I didn't get spooked as I did when I was young. I was just so moved by Ellen Burstyn's performance.

[@stevesheroan4131]

Wow. I feel vindicated slightly because I think people often don’t really notice the kiss on the cheek and Linda Blair’s amazing “Why did I just do that?” moment right after. It’s one of the best moments of the film IMO, and QT evidently is very fond of it as well.

[@corbinmarkey466]

Anyone who's able to catch The Exorcist on the big screen absolutely owes it to themselves to do so. It's an experience you won't ever forget.

[@pizmo25]

Unless you're six years old. Well it's true about not forgetting it.

[@matthewstroud4294]

The story is about faith. The way I view it, faith is a requirement of religious belief, because the supernatural is by definition outside of the natural universe and faith is the belief in something for which you have no evidence. In the film the priest is having a faith-crisis and you could be forgiven for thinking his faith is restored as the story unfolds, but in truth he is confronted with strong evidence, witnessed by others that a demon is possessing a little girl. He has no need for faith, he has the proof, and chooses to trade his life for hers based on a mostly rational hierarchy of values. How is that a good recruiter for the Catholic church in the real world? You'd have to have a pretty bad view of humanity to think The Exorcist is going to make us all Catholics.

[@mosskey]

You said it better than I did. Much kudos

[@350125GOW]

also quiet a larf.

[@RichardSchaefer-zx9ig]

I was a sophomore @ Duquesne and saw "The Exorcist" w 2 friends a couple of weeks after it opened. It was a full house and the movie was incredible+ got big audience responses. One friend, a big dude, blocking back on Champion, intermural Football team, jumped out of his 4th floor room crashing on 1st floor roof. Was taken to a pysche hospital. He was a bit freaked out after the movie but we had no idea the huge effect it had on him. He did come back to school a couple years later + graduated.

[@WKelleyLucas_KustomScatterguns]

If you haven't read the book, you really should. Much, much deeper than the movie.

[@GCKelloch]

Not sure I wanna put myself through that.

[@thoth8784]

The book must've gotten into my subconscious because my parents told me I was screaming in my sleep every night.

[@WKelleyLucas_KustomScatterguns]

@@GCKelloch The book goes so much further into the depths of the characters. After years of seeing the movie numerous times, I read the book... the book seemed to me to be less of a horror novel and more about the characters struggles. How they all coalesced around Regan to help her, and Father Karras' struggle with his faith. Really well written.

[@Njbear7453]

My dad read the book and slept with the lights on for 2 weeks lmao

[@jamesomeara2329]

I always recommend that people read the novel. I always thought Karras was better developed. The movie has a brilliant style in itself, but the book delivered the humanity of Karras. When he is dying, there's a description of his eyes, which the movie doesn't do justice to. It's not that Catholicism wins, it's that the faith of one man standing for what is right matters. It's a heroic story just like a Batman tale, but such a more intimate setting of people who have lost or are losing, but find the honest courage to get back up for what is right.

[@jameslangley2196]

Does he win though? I always thought the flash of his mother’s face at the curtains before he jumps shows he was deceived and that all along the target wasn’t Regan, it was Karras and the old guy.

[@jamesomeara2329]

@@jameslangley2196 Maybe he didn't win. When he returns in Legion, you do find out how much he was made to suffer. But at times the heroic value can still be a tragic value. Because whatever the cost to him was, he did accept it to release the child from her suffering. And though I agree that Karras and Merrin were targets, I think the girl was also a target. Did he win, perhaps not, but did he give it up for the sake of the child, I believe so. Anyway, that was my take, thank you for the thought.

[@paulanthony5274]

His mother appearing at the curtains is to give him strength to change back to himself momentarily to do what he must do, she appeared to help him.

[@richardlarson9459]

Probably the only movie that really scared me. In 1978 it was playing at our local theater at the midnight movie. A couple of my friends and I went to see it on a Thursday night. About 5 minutes in, one of my friends got up and walked out. Friday Night another of my friends wanted to go see it. So I told him I'd go with him. My friend who had walked out, also decided to go back and try again. About 10 minutes in, he walked out again. Saturday Night, same thing happened. A third friend wanted to go. So he and I and my friend who walked out went to see it. I was like, Robert, are you sure you want to go? You're kinda just wasting money. He said, "No, no, I want to get through it. I think I can get through it this time". He lasted about 15 or 20 minutes before he just couldn't take any more and he walked out. I talked to him later and he told me that when he was a kid, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang scared him. I laughed so hard. I was like, if Chitty Chitty Bang Bang scared you, you have no business going to The Exorcist.

[@mst3kpimp]

huh? nothing really scary occurs until past 30 min its just the priest digging and character introduction.

[@tikitavi7120]

Hey, your friend was probably freaked out at the Child Catcher in Chitty, he scared me as well.

[@richardlarson9459]

@@mst3kpimp I think the first time he walked out was when Regan peed on the floor and says "You're gonna die up there".

[@mst3kpimp]

@@richardlarson9459 that doesnt happen till well after 30min mark.

[@richardlarson9459]

@@mst3kpimp It was 46 years ago. I don't remember exactly what was going on. Maybe it was when the priest was at the archaeology site and saw the vision, I don't know. Why is it so important to you?

[@torpedoboy4]

I agree about “The Exorcist” being a superb recruiting tool. It must’ve drove people towards Christianity in great numbers. I always said its equivalent would be people in the year 1520 seeing Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights” Hell panel. Also, I have ALWAYS wanted to see a Tarantino horror. “Death Proof” is horror-esque, but I want to see him dip into the supernatural realm. Funny he mentioned “The Sentinel” as it’s still as quirky and terrifying as the day it was released.

[@smokeyowa7612]

He did from dusk till dawn

[@torpedoboy4]

@@smokeyowa7612 true, but I should’ve specified “directed”. He only wrote “From Dusk Till Dawn”.

[@smokeyowa7612]

Just letting you know man incase you hadn't seen it, its great

[@CarlosSpiceyWeiner]

This movie always reaffirms my faith. Love it.

[@nrqed]

It is hard to explain to younger people (I am in my late fifties) how terrifying the movie was. It was the first horror film that I saw that felt almost like a documentary. It was shocking.

[@louispacetime1576]

I can’t even begin to imagine how scary it must have been. I watched it in the early 2000s and I think I’ve never been so scared in my life. I had to distract myself with video games or dvds. In the 70s I think I would have been traumatized 😂

[@joconnell8145]

I actually went to the theater and saw the re-release. The audience was filled with kids and they were laughing during scenes. I was thinking WTF???, this isn't a comedy you dumb*ss kids! They just didn't get it!

[@frankwithrow377]

Messing with the oijia board left her open to possession

[@Barbaste]

I had the same experience in the movie theater around 2000 but with a screening of the old version. Everybody had seen it, maybe many times, many of us were not allowed to see it or watch it on tv as kids, and everybody reacted like it was the first time.

[@ryangettig274]

They say the biblical/religious influence in QT's life was his GrandMother,Heaven Bless Her,Now & Forever,it make's his work so much more rich & real:)

[@lukerhodes216]

70s films just hit different, especially 70s horror, The Exorcist and The Omen are perfect imo, modern horror just doesnt come close. As a grown man The Exorcist is the only horror movie that still makes me uncomfortable and I have seen all flavours of horror

[@whs-waterfox7034]

I watched The Exorcist for the first time with my parents in 1984 when I was 5. It made me scared of stairs. I honestly had no idea that you could die from falling down some steps.

[@Bat_Dad_116]

I hate, hate, HATE what he says at the end. QT, you’re a master at your craft. You could do it and I for one DEFINITELY want you too.

[@UncleWiggily.]

I was 17 when I seen it at a drive-in theatre in '74. It was very disturbing and I loved it.

[@Mal_Freeman0451]

The greatest horror ever made and I doubt it will ever be beaten. The realism, the tone, the dread... It stands alone above all the rest. The 2nd greatest horror ever made doesn't even come close.

[@roncarroll4136]

Well I was three years old 73' The Exorcist came out and Pink Floyd dark side of the Moon . I am a fan of both and Quentin Tarantino is a creativity and captured 70s movie like other movie producer

[@kneuer]

I worked at a theater in KC when this came out. Management told us to have smelling salts on hand. Crowd reaction was expected to be that intense. We never used them.

[@BMG19FUNNYDIE]

The theme song was from Mike Oldfield's album Tubular Bells. One of the best albums of the 70's.

[@Seantendo]

I know so many people who refuse to give the album a chance because The Exorcist messed them up so badly. Damn shame, some sections of Tubular Bells sound like the gates of Heaven opening up.

[@keaton718]

That album was totally tubular.

[@garrybaldy327]

Sorry to sound a dick, but that's like saying did you know both Pacino *and* De Niro starred in Heat

[@thoth8784]

I tried to get into Tubular Bells II and III but they just didn't measure up. Ah, such are the pitfalls of sequels.

[@Njbear7453]

Fun fact Lalo Schifrin was first choice for composer

[@KidFresh71]

If you've never seen a movie at the New Beverly Cinema, I really recommend it. Old school prices, and a cozy vibe. Feels like being a kid again, and I love taking my 7 year old daughter to the old-school "kiddie" flicks on Saturday.

[@gialloflack]

So funny -- We're about the same age, and I also tried to see the X rated Andy Warhol's Frankenstein when it premiered, and was laughed out of the theater lobby (I was 11 years old). I did convince my sister to take me in to the Exorcist opening week at the Cinema One theater in NYC. Needless to say it blew my mind. That was a time of innovative and trendsetting films. I'm so glad I experienced it in that decade at that age.

[@RobertMunro-wb6jb]

Andy Warhols flesh for Frankenstein is great ! Very camp and Warhols blood for Dracula is great too !!!

[@Graterstuuf]

They are both comedies.

[@RobertMunro-wb6jb]

Definitely! I had a good laugh last time I saw them !!!

[@steveskipper6473]

The premise of making a rational mental health clinician "who happened to be a Priest" was in my opinion absolute genius.

[@dutchvanderliege2413]

Tarantino talking about movies ? What a pleasure

[@TylerHendrixO]

I like your videos, and I only mean this constructively, but you do seem to lean pretty heavily on Tarantino clips.

[@ALMOSTMACROSWAG]

it’s partly just because he’s one of the few directors who loves talking about movies constantly

[@_thk]

Tbh if Terence Malick would've talked more, we would've got more Terence Malick clips

[@aliendrone]

And Bill Hader..

[@andypickeringmusic]

Because he knows he can download freely available no rights issues interviews and cut them to footage and make loads of KZbin money

[@johnlangis9313]

POWERFUL! Should have been nominated for best picture at Oscars!

[@iflarnted]

Best actress too. Ellen Burstyn was phenomenal. But she won for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.

[@garrybaldy327]

It was. I think you mean it should have won.

[@BMG19FUNNYDIE]

Wow that shot of Reagan at 7:45 is frightening.

[@John-vw3lr]

Seen it in Lanarkshire ( Scotland ) at 13 years old in a Cinema greatest horror film ever.

[@Joe-d4s4x]

For me The Exorcist is one of the best films ever made, it’s in my top three. It’s just an utter juggernaut of a film, some films just do that “thang” to you, I can’t explain it it. I’ve only had this feeling with 2001, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner also.

[@purdysanchez]

It's the only movie I've found terrifying other than Misery.

[@oilda1926]

Slow down! The Exorcist was released in 1973 not 1974. I was 12 in 1973, on release, when I first saw this horror masterpiece.

[@MrUndersolo]

My mom believed in her Catholicism. That was why she let me watch it as a child, with the note that 'It is a religious movie'. A wonderful moment from my youth! 🤮

[@nenabunena]

Made by an atheist jew?

[@marlinshanklin-ww7em]

One of the scariest seems in the movie. The phone rings in a room what makes it so scary the room was quiet.

[@jamess854]

The Exorcist is oozing with atmosphere. It's genuinely unsettling. I saw it years ago when I was 15, and it didn't scare me very much. But rewatching it as an adult, it f**ked me up. I still think the theatrical cut is far better than "The version you've never seen". Ruins the subliminal cuts of Pazuzu's face during Karas' nightmare sequences.

[@andrewmaximo4485]

The exorcist also works as a movie about a mother whose child is suffering from a mental/physical illness that doctors are giving up on and the mom is left hanging on a prayer. Worst nightmare of a parent.

[@pablotescobar5956]

Rewatched this a while ago. The pre exorcism stuff is far more interesting to me now

[@welshman100]

Would love to see Quentin do a horror movie. Can't even imagine what it's be like.

[@John-ku5uu]

The EXORCISM is simply about the young priest regaining his faith... but losing his life. That's why the theis title IS THE EXORCIST!

[@markkeith9055]

I was 10. I didn't even know what the word exorcist meant. I had no idea what the movie was about until I knew. Scared the crap out of me.

[@jackbedient]

I was born in 71 to a horror fanatic mom. She took me to see The Exorcist in theaters. Do the math. The movie is seared into my subconscious. Some of my first visual memories. Now hearing QT say it was rereleased in 75, I’m thinking that’s when my mom must have taken me, because being two years old always seemed too young for me. Nevertheless, the math is crazy…

[@jamesdelcol3701]

The Exorcist messed with people's minds. Richard Prior and Paul Mooney went to the movies and freaked out. Paul did a good bit on it. A priest would have to mean something for it to be real. The horror is a particularly Catholic vision. Holy water would have to mean something for it to burn her. 🤣

[@ObeseCaligula]

🎃 Mommy didnt let me watch the dancing movie with Kevin Bacon as a kid. Big 80s hit movie but Children of the Corn was ok. 😬

[@Bacalao2929]

Saw it on HBO and it was only movie that had a warning describing the potential dangers

[@Bacalao2929]

I then I developed a big crush on Linda Blair with roller boogie,

[@YouTube-tied]

I also saw it at a drive in when it re-released, in 1976, and I was10 years old. One of my older brothers had seen it the night before and he took me and the rest of my sibs to see it the next night. It didn't really hit me until a few hours later then I was scared shitless for a couple of days after. Still my favorite horror movie. The Evil Dead is #2.

[@caveman3021]

My friend and I saw The Version You've Never Seen at the IMAX in 2000. I have come to like this version better than the original, even though I hated it at first. I find the original leaves us hanging at the end, while the new cut shows us that good has conquered evil and it was back to business as usual. Also Father Dyer sparks up a friendship with Lt . Kinderman, picking up where Father Karras would have left off..🤮

[@mosskey]

It's about a priest's FAITH not their religion.thats why it starts in the middle east, it's not a about an ideology but someone's faith

[@Cheeemmmsss]

QT doing a horror movie? I think horror fans and movie fans in general would race to the theater to see what he has in store. I do hope he does a horror movie in the future as well as some directors who don’t have horror in their catalog yet

[@TheChef470]

A Masterpiece......way ahead of it's time.

[@garrybaldy327]

No it wasn't. It was made in the early seventies when directors were allowed to run free, to an extent. But it is a masterpiece

[@Smokey2Mc]

The Exorcist was definitely perfectly cast.

[@Bisonhammer]

I’d love to see Quentin do a horror film paced at Tarantino speed

[@Citiprime]

It’s interesting, Pauline Kael’s criticism given William Peter Blatty’s concerns with the original theatrical cut. He hated the idea that the audience might leave the movie thinking “the devil won.” And there is an atheistic way to interpret the story, since it’s a story about faith (especially with Father Karras), and there’s nothing that definitively proves the Christian God exists or that the Catholic Church has any power. Blatty believed the excised scene of Father Merrin consoling Karrass on the stairs and explaining the target of Pazuzu is everyone around Regan, not the girl herself. His objective is to make them doubt and despair, and create distance with goodness and God. To Blatty, that’s the entire point of the story, that in the end Karrass finds his faith and in the tradition of Jesus makes the sacrifice of his life to save an innocent and drive evil away. However, if you rewatch the movie, Pazuzu is in almost total control of the situation the entire story. When Father Merrin dies, Regan/Pazuzu is giggling about it, it’s really a moment where it’s like we’re fucked if God is either impotent to protect his priest or refuses to help. And you can make the argument that both religion and science fail, and in the end it’s just a man deciding to do what he can as a human being (beating the shit out of Pazuzu and challenging him) that stops the evil.

[@garrybaldy327]

Pazuzu only "wins" the exorcism because it separated Merrin and Karras. Together, both priests were an unstoppable force and Pazuzu knew that. Alone, Merrin was physically weak (yet mentally strong) and Karras mentally weak (yet physically strong). There's a moment when one of the priests walks around the bed and Pazuzu (Regan) looks very nervous. Had Pazuzu failed to split the priests, it would have lost and been banished back to Hell. Though Karras saved Regan, the devil did win (or at least a demon called Pazuzu that lied it was the devil).

[@reubsbay]

The tests they run in the hospital is the real horror in the film!

[@spencer_fife_and_drum_john9152]

Best horror movie of all time and one of the best films ever made

[@RUBIZEN]

The Excorcist made my aunt crash her new Ford Gremlin...!!

[@garrybaldy327]

That's ironic because Gremlins made my uncle crash his new Chevrolet Exorcist

[@eclat4641]

Some movies you hear about And you think- That sounds way too scary. But then you see it And its awesome.

[@b2tall239]

Scariest movie IMO until "Silence of the Lambs".

[@Dreamy_Dawe]

I've seen the exorcist about a hundred and sixty-seven times, and it keeps getting funnier every single time I see it.

[@thoth8784]

Ya, the Exorcist is the pinnacle of horror. THe only other movie that comes close is The Entity.

[@crisdorcas4655]

Tarantino is guaranteed to give us a horror movie. I put that on everything before he passes

[@thoso1973]

The documentary sober tone shouldn't work for a film dealing with demons, possession and all that when you think about it. But it does. Oh boy it does. Billy Friedkin's masterpiece.

[@giuffre714]

Regan wasn't Catholic. That's one of the things that made it so cool.

[@juanmanuelbaccino]

hi, i think that all faces of the devil in history of cinema can be resumed in two words... Michael Jackson.

[@jasonsanchez156]

My favorite film 🍻

[@drdiva70]

5:00 holy shit! I’ve thought this for years! I think it’s a secular film and the idea that the catholics are equipped to deal with this ancient evil is kind of reductive. The holy water is actually the perfect thing to point to. Great shot towards the end when Reagan takes out father Merrin and we see the flask of holy water on the ground. Didn’t seem to help much, and that is after pretending to be hurt by the tap water earlier in the film. It’s all an act by this ancient evil, playing with the mother, the priests, the doctors, and of course Regan. In the end, Karras’ sacrifice is what saves Regan, not the catholic ritual, they didn’t even get to finish

[@everythingisawesome76]

Saw the 2000 re-release at the Graumans Theater on Sunset. 1st date with my future wife. Not sure she's ever truly forgiven me. But she did marry me.

[@QualeQualeson]

I love it when films dare to get offensive. I also got a good cackle from Rosemary's Baby when they marched around shouting: Hail Satan! These things were not taken lightly at the time, and probably still aren't in large parts of the world. I think Rosemary's Baby is probably an even better film than The Exorcist, especially if you prefer a subtler psychological build up.

[@dornelli1]

I know it's not at the same level, but there's a small movie called 'section 9' that is totally creepy and deserved of attention

[@bigbakaboon]

Would love tarantino to do a straight horror movie. I think most people would.

[@robaquarian]

I prefer the Director's cut. It has the good scenes that the 2000 version has but there's no Pazuzu in Regan's room after Berk gets killed.

[@joconnell8145]

Such a great film, one of my top 3 scariest films ever. Along with Alien and Jaws, when taking within the context given, the reality of what's happening is just frightening. Put yourself into the position of any of the characters in those films, how would you feel in those situations??

[@jasonaugustine3370]

People who run down movies from the 70s because of the acting and obviously never seen the exorcist the Poseidon, adventure or jaws

[@Cliffster420]

The Exorcist is the only movie that ever scared me. The Devil is real, regardless if you believe in Satan, he believes in you, he doesn't want you to believe in God. The world is so chaotic and filled with negativity, pedophilia, and immorality, it's not hard to see that Evil exists. It stands to reason that if the devil exists, then God exists. God is the answer to all your problems.

[@restock_1731]

Watch The Exorcist at night, in the dark by yourself, and tell me you don't feel it.

[@of1300]

Same with my mom.

[@michaelkuhlman883]

Yeah, if Tarantino did a horror movie like The Exorcist, it would have a lot of humor in it.

[@mrdrifter3925]

Great movie, highest grossing for WB when adjusted for inflation.

[@vladyslavkhomenko6081]

I’ve seen the Exorcist about a hundred and sixty seven times, and it keeps getting funnier every time I see it!

[@Seantendo]

...not to mention the fact that you're talking to a dead guy!

[@Njbear7453]

Nice f’n model!!!!!