When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
A social realist drama disguised as a horror film The above sentence might be glib but I mean it as high praise. I love horror movies, but it is a genre that is often guilty of chasing cheap thrills rather than something more profound, while The Exorcist seeks to say a lot in a magnetic method. This is a film I rewatched recently on BBC1, during a week off traveling around the country watching North End concede eleven goals in three games, and I was as blown away by it as I was the first time I saw it. Now there is a plethora of literature and analysis out there about The Exorcist (I would recommend people check out Mark Kermode's output in particular) so I am fully aware of what I am going to write isn't insightful but will certainly convey which elements in particular I was struck by. Firstly the sheer richness of the themes. It would be remiss of me to not mention the central theme of faith, with many of our characters learning to rediscover their faith. Father Karris (Jason M
Looooooved it. So gory, the old school visual effects. I wasn't scared but I felt the horror. Amazing. Although not the best script ever, some things were a bit vauge and the ending was rushed. I still loved it.
