The Exorcist - is it actually that scary?

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Anonymous wrote:I love horror movies. I’d say 7/10 on a scary level. The Ring is the one movie that scared the sh*t out of me when I was in high school and I had to sleep with the tv on for over a week!

+1 on Ring

Omg the Ring is terrifying and also a great movie. Scared the shit out of me. Still does even though I'm 20 years older.

See.. I don't find the Ring that scary. A bit creepy, but not scary. I think it's the combination of the face and voice of the girl that scares me. I can't get it out of my head.

The face of the girl in the Ring isn't as scary, and she doesn't talk so no scary voice to go wit it.

The part that creeped me out was her coming out of the hole and towards the TV. Legit goosebumps thinking about it!

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting, I also watched it as a child way before I should have, and it scarred me. I watched it one more time as a tween at a friends house and couldn't sleep well for days. I also wonder if I would find it scary if I watched it for the first time now, but I will not, under any circumstances, watch it again. I pleaded with my horror-movie loving daughter to never watch it, but she did anyway (when she was a more appropriate age) and it was no big deal to her. I generally don't like scary movies (although campy ones are fine), and I think that goes back to the exorcist.

Side note - I ended up going to Georgetown for college and always declined to hang out at the exorcist steps or run up them when coming back from the bars (both of which were "things" at least back then).

I also went to Georgetown—they show the Exorcist in Gaston Hall every Halloween. Everyone gets dressed up and most are inebriated—there’s a lot of cheering when you see the Key Bridge or the Car Barn or the Exorcist steps—you should have joined in! With the crowd like that it wasn’t very scary at all.

[Anonymous]

It didn't scare me. The Omens terrified me.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it was scarier in the 70s as more people had the faith back then.

Yup, as pedos:
https://fordhamobserver.com/40974/news/jesuit-living-at-fordham-accused-of-sexual-abuse/

[Anonymous]

I saw it as a child and it messed me up, and it's still too scary to watch. The voice and the face. Plus, the acting is superb. Ellen Burstyn was fabulous.

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I find the movie scarier because it was made in the seventies- something about the colors, style, etc. of that era of horror movies makes it scarier to me than ones filmed now.