Like did it deeply unsettle you or, as the cool kids say now, did you laugh at it? Enquiring minds, mainly mine, would like to know. There's a great doc, that I can't link, called The Cultural Impact. It's on YouTube.
If you watched The Exorcist as a child, or in theaters please tell us what it was like for you.
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Scared the crap out of me. End up seeing it 3-4 times after that. One of those films that really affected me. Great performances
Thank you for an honest response. Thanks @Tannerdad. It's appreciated.
Same - scared me silly.
I saw the trailer at the drive in when I was 10 and that was so unsettling. For some reason that led me to read the book at around 13, another bad move. Not sure what made me watch the movie after reading the book but I did and it truly made me ask my young teenage self; why are you doing this to yourself.
Never watched it again not will I.
I saw the trailer at the drive in when I was 10 and that was so unsettling. For some reason that led me to read the book at around 13, another bad move. Not sure what made me watch the movie after reading the book but I did and it truly made me ask my young teenage self; why are you doing this to yourself.
Never watched it again not will I.
Never seen it to this day, but along the same lines: When I was small, we bought a property where a man had burned to death in his home. Dad built a new house there. I was probably 6 or 7. I slept with a knife under my pillow to fight the night monsters for years.
Not as bad as that profile pic you have w/ a mask on.
I havent watched it and wont. I really want to but just dont want those thought processes in my head. Saw the trailer for The Nun in the theatre when I saw Oppenheimer and same thing. I am sure I would like it but dont want f'd up thoughts in my head.
I’ve never watched it. I know now it shouldn’t be that scary, but I definitely remember how afraid it made me as a kid.
Jesus Christ, the mask is on upside down and inside out. I thought I'd make a joke about it but you like the 5th person to bitch about it. Believe me I'd of changed it long ago to my full face but a bunch are scared to do that, and I don't know how with this phone.
That's crazy cause two people died in my childhood bedroom. My old neighbors son and and his friend purposely overdosed in there. Me and my sister switched rooms when I was 12, she was 9. I'd hear her talking to people and burst in and she'd tell me how her two friends didn't like me. I told my mom and she told me what happened in there. Hell we had a preacher cleanse the house. My sister just got an 8 year sentence for drug related crimes, her 3rd prison stint since she's been 18. If their were ghosts, they screwed her over lol.
It'll def mess with your head. Hell the book is even scarier. But God wins in the end. It's a powerful message after you've been asking the whole movie where's God.
Great story and I appreciate your honesty. The movie traumatized me. I read the book years later and I found it even scarier because the demon is present more and it's a lot more malevolent.
I believe the first time I saw it was the first time it was broadcast on tv, and that was a pretty big deal at school. I thought it was scary and that was the tv version. My friend’s family saw it in a theater and walked out less than halfway through, but they are kind of charismatic Catholics. They’re big into omens and premonitions. We asked them about it and they wouldn’t discuss it.
I watched it when I was 10, no lie it scared the living shit out of me. I didn’t miss mass for 2 months and wore my crucifix 24/7 and even asked father Gino to bless me with holy water. For the longest time I always had the feeling my bed was moving. That was my experience with the original exorcist
Kind of related. The scene from The Shining where they zoom in on the dog-costume guy down the hallway, was utterly terrifying for me. That movie in general was (and is) sometimes too scary and dreadful for me.. but I watched that scene with hands covering my eyes until I swear, I was like 20.
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Watched it in the theater when I was 16. Thought it was creepy. I don’t believe in any supernatural nonsense so it didn’t have any lasting affects on me. But was definitely the scariest movie I had seen up to that point.
That's crazy considering Catholics attended Mass but attendance rose by 20% in the weeks after The Exorcist was released. I mean like directly the reason.
I was an atheist the first two times I watched it. The first time I had no idea what I was watching. Then I read a book that explained what was happening, watched it and felt panic like I've never felt lol.
I saw The Exorcist when I was around ten, though it was kind of meh, and never had a desire to revisit it (though I've watched it at least once since, around 20 years ago, with a friend who'd somehow never heard of it before and thought it was a new movie). Like Wildcatfaninohio, I've also never believed in supernatural stuff. It's all good, but just personally I prefer killer robots (ED-209, MARK-13, the little bastards from Runaway and Chopping Mall, et al.) and cosmic horrors (the Cenobites, the Thing, Nyarlathotep, and so on) over ghosts and zombies and vampires and cryptids and stuff like that.
