Review of The Exorcist (1973) by Luis M — 09 Sep 2017

I was probably only nine or eleven when I first saw this film and couldn't watch it in its entirety. It was far beyond scary at the time and extremely disturbing. Unfortunately, it wasn't meant to be an everlasting movie; most people today can view it without any problems.

The performances by the people who played the priests were right on, Burstyn didn't really have to act so much as to provide a performance of any kind; Friedkin took care of that, and Linda Blair was just a beautiful kid turned exceedingly devilish.

I'm not sure if it was the makeup, the well written screenplay or the profanity, but one thing is for certain; an experience was created to have people remembering, panicking and even dying from its jolt of terror that had a paranormal activity coming to a near quota.