Review of The Exorcist (1973) by Kyle L — 10 May 2014

Scary, well crafted and extremely terrifying The Exorcist is one of the scariest and the most impressive Horror movies ever made in the 1970's since Halloween, Jaws and The Omen. The plot of this film is about a young girl name Regan Macneil who lives with her mother, famous actress Chris Macneil in a normal home.

But soon Chris' learns that her daughter is not who she is after she starts displaying strange behavior towards her like spitting out bad language, attacking other people and starts to show aggresive behavior.

Chris soon learns that her daughter is possessed by an evil spirit and now Chris must call a priest to perform an exorcism on her daughter in order to save her life. I seriously love this movie and I admit that it is one of the best Horror films ever made and it is very true.

Horror fans still pick it as one of their favorite Horror movies of all time. The reviews are extremely positive and the ratings in several movie websites for this movie are very high. I use to remember my mom told me that during her High School days she watched this film because she has to make a reaction paper for this movie and when she told me about the film I became extremely interested in it.

When I watched it I so love it and I agree with every critic and every Horror fan this movie completely blew me away and I will never forget this movie I consider it as one of the most memorable Horror films I've watched since Insidious 1 & 2, The Conjuring and Poltergeist.

One of the magnificent things about this movie is that the reason why this movie is considered to be one of the most terrifying films ever made its because there are so many super scary, frightening and horrifying moments that everyone will never forget in this movie(Regan Macneil showing first signs of strange behavior, The Spider Walk sequence, The exorcism finale and the super scary levitation sequence along with Regan Macneil spinning her head)and these moments will give everyone nightmares where most people will end up leaving their lights on when going to sleep after seeing this film.

The other highlights of this movie is that the film has loads of fantastic settings and of course the movie is extremely suspenceful and atmospheric plus the pacing is amazing because it starts out slow first but it never gets boring it is intriguing and intense rather than having any boring or dull moments thanks to the magnificent script of author and writer William Peter Blatty and the soundtrack is extremely haunting in this film and I so adore the theme song of this film.

But the true main highlight of this film is the performances of the casts. All of the casts are magnificent and amazing with their performances in this film no wonder it was the first Horror film nominated for an academy award for best picture before Silence of The Lambs came even Linda Blair was nominated for best supporting actress as Regan Macneil and to be honest all of the casts are extremely talented in this film Linda Blair's performance is extremely terrifying and superb in this film and I love how her character changed from a sweet, lovely woman to a super scary possessed girl that starts doing crazy and scary moments throughout the film.

The same can be said for actor Max Von Sydow who delivers one of the best performances in his movie career and this is one of my personal favorite performances he ever did on film since Minority Report and Linda Blair, Max Von Sydow and Jason Miller are one of the true main highlights of this film because their performances are so wonderful and they seriously delivered the best performance in a Horror film since Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie in Carrie as Carrie White and Margaret White I so adore the performances in this film a lot.

Director William Friedkin did a terrific job with his work on this movie and he managed to turn the script of William Peter Blatty into a terrifying yet magnificent thrill ride that every Horror fan will always remember and they will always consider this as one of the most memorable Horror films ever made and this is the movie that gave William Friedkin a name in the Horror genre and he shows proof that he is a talented director and I wish he can make another Horror film again since I haven't heard from him after he made a couple of good films along with this movie.

Overall The Exorcist is a memorable, terrifying and super scary film that will impress Horror fans and critics at the same time and will remain as one of the best and the most memorable Horror films ever made William Friedkin you are a pure genius! This movie gets an 11/10.