![]() ![]() Fundamental human thoughts, which are then challenged by a crisis that is so unlike anything else. It revolves around a man disillusioned with the world. ![]() It’s emotions revolve around a mother’s unconditional love for her child. ![]() What it does is blend ideas and emotions that are familiar and universal, and explores them through a situation that is completely unfamilar, resulting in something truly uncanny and evocative. The Exorcist is so powerful because it speaks to us in ways that we’ve never previously been spoken to. It’s a challenging film, but there’s a unique intelligence to it. It doesn’t rely on gore or a saturation of jump scares, or any of the hefty gimmickry we have come to associate with the genre. ![]() There isn’t a knife wielding stalker hidden in the dark. It isn’t a horror in the mould of its 1970’s compatriots. I found it initially difficult to place what it is that makes The Exorcist so terrifying, what makes it so enormously powerful and evocative. Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Jason Miller, Max von Sydow Written By: William Peter Blatty (based on his own novel The Exorcist) ![]()
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