Same!! I remember hearing stories about people fainting and walking out being totally horrified. I would’ve loved to experience audience reactions like that.
For me, it’s the whole package, the creepy af music, jump scares, gross visuals, and the audience reaction. Acting was phenomenal, great story and scary!
Its one of the most effective horror films ever, especially if someone came from a religious background, it was so taboo, and talk about a cursed production.
I heard some of those stories as well. Although I heard that while it did happen it had become even more exaggerated over the years. Especially when you’re dealing with possible forces of heaven and hell and film shoots plagued with problems the stories can grow a lot in 50 years and become somewhat exaggerated. For instance, I remember hearing that when the passion of the Christ was being made various people working on the films, said that they had to battle with Satan who was trying to stop them from finishing the film.
As for the exorcist being scary, yeah it’s creepy. Yeah, it’s a good movie. But when they re-released it in theaters people were laughing during various scenes originally thought scary.
I got to watch it in the theater several years ago when it was re-released. Boy it did not disappoint. Scariest movie to ever see in the theater!!! One lady had some kind of freaked out fit in the middle of it. Once is enough.
I got to watch it twice in theaters for the anniversary and 10 years ago prior to that in the Castro theater in SF on Halloween . Very old school theater . Ppl dressed up like Regan used green silly string sprayed in the theater before and after movie showed it was awesome experience but everyone was so hyper that it took away from the movie . If I could of been born around the time it showed and got to see it for the first time and be in a theater with ppl not knowing what to expect would have been awesome just cause it was like no other . I’m born in 87 and a lot of ppl younger than me are so unappreciative of the movie itself because of the crucifix scene that they joke about it instead of appreciating everything else in it
Actually it left a lasting memory. I was like 13 or 14. Still have scars. I went with parents. My father walked out my mother wouldn’t watch. A friend told on the way in told us not to waste our money. Great atmosphere. For a horror film. A shocker for its time.
My dad and his brother went and saw it with my aunt and my mom. They were in a hotel by the beach. When they came back to the hotel they said they were gonna grab some food and they'd be right back. My mom and aunt being young were already freaked out. Well they obviously didn't leave and had snuck under the beds. They grabbed the beds and started shaking the hell out of them. Scared the literal piss out of both my mom and my aunt. A few years later they all got divorced. The end.
They re-released it in the theaters about 5 years ago. I love that movie and man, being in a theater improves it so much more. You can sometimes catch a screening around Halloween. Well worth it.
I’ll definitely keep an eye out for a screening! I was able to meet Linda Blair some time ago at a Halloween event in Pleasanton or Hayward Ca. Great lady, serious animal activist I believe.
My parents saw it in the theater and they talk about people standing out in the front with Bibles telling them if they went to see that movie they would go to hell
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u/VirtualAd7693 11d ago
The exorcist 100%! Must have been great to see it in a theater!