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.