DVD : The Exorcist (The Version You've Never Seen)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790751672
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790751674
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 26, 2000
Running Time: 122 minutes
Sales Rank: 1515
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 26, 1973
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Something beyond comprehension is happening to a little girl on this street in this house. A man has been called for as a last resort to try and save her. That man is the exorcist. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/13/2005 Starring: Ellen Burstyn Linda Blair Run time: 132 minutes Rating: R Director: William Friedkin
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Director William Friedkin was a hot ticket in Hollywood after the success of The French Connection, and he turned heads (in more ways than one) when he decided to make The Exorcist as his follow-up film. Adapted by William Peter Blatty from his controversial bestseller, this shocking 1973 thriller set an intense and often-copied milestone for screen terror with its unflinching depiction of a young girl (Linda Blair) who is possessed by an evil spirit. Jason Miller and Max von Sydow are perfectly cast as the priests who risk their sanity and their lives to administer the rites of demonic exorcism, and Ellen Burstyn plays Blair's mother, who can only stand by in horror as her daughter's body is wracked by satanic disfiguration. One of the most frightening films ever made with a soundtrack that's guaranteed to curl your blood, The Exorcist was mysteriously plagued by troubles during production, and the years have not diminished its capacity to disturb even the most stoical viewers. Don't say you weren't warned! --Jeff Shannon
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OK, you've all seen this classic unless you've been living on Mars since 1973. And don't bother even watching, much less purchasing any of the sequels. But this slightly extended version attempts to add a few more minutes to elaborate on Linda Blair's central Regan teenage character before she "involuntarily spirals down" into complete possession. After all, the primary viewer empathy should have always been on Regan and viewer association with the Chris MacNeil character. But instead, the director spent too much footage on incidentals, like Lt. Kinderman, Burke and both Father Karras & Dyer characters. (Nobody actually blamed Karras for sending his mom to an ole-folks home, since she was obviously a whiner anyway.) Concentrating on Regan's own and her mother's ordeal would have been more than sufficient, allowing for a shorter 100 min. story. However, the Exorcist is a classic due to its real-life pace and "audio-mix" (i.e., medical center thumping equip.): Pay attention to the silent scenes that make you lean forward in your chair, instantly followed by [wham!] screaming scenes, loud machine noises and the inverse. And no fair in adjusting your tuner's volume control. Just keep it at the same level as the theatre viewing experience, to appreciate those numerous & genius scene transitions.
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It's difficult to look back on a film "classic" and try to review it through today's eyes...35 years later. It's always tempting to say, "Those effects were great...for 1973" or "imagine how that affected an audience...three decades ago." You almost feel like you have to make excuses for the film.
But I am happy to report that in a very recent, pre-Halloween viewing, THE EXORCIST has withstood the test of time nearly unscathed. Yes, some of the effects (there are actually fewer than you would expect) are not up to the standards of today. The clothing is often hilariously tacky. Technology is primitive.
Yet William Friedkin's classically styled direction of William Peter Blatty's effectively unsettling novel still has the uncanny ability to give us the creeps today. Often (VERY often) imitated, but not yet equaled, THE EXORCIST is simply brilliant.
If you don't know the story: young Regan (Linda Blair, before she was the punchline to a lot of cheap jokes) lives in a lovely Washington DC home with her recently divorced movie-actress mother (Ellen Burstyn). They are a well-to-do little family, with a housekeeper, cook & nanny. But they are presented as a loving pair.
Soon, though, Regan begins to exhibit strange behavior, including rather vivid tales of her talks with "imaginary" friends she clearly believes are real. Her mother begins taking her to doctors and specialists, who at first assume it's just adolescence. ... Read More
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I always liked this movie. Before I saw it I was told that it was really scary. I watched it and was laughing my but off!! The old graphics and plot put together made it kind of funny. But the make-up done in certain scenes was scary.
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The Exorcist starring Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair is considered the best horror film of all-time, I have to disagree. The Exorcist is scary but the language and bodily fluids are a bit much, it's like enough already! The acting is excellent but overall this movie doesn't live up to the hype, sorry.
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One of the scariest scenes for most people in this movie is the so-called "spinal tap" scene, however the procedure in which Regan has a needle inserted in her throat, and blood rhythmically pumps out is an arteriogram. A spinal tap involves inserting a needle into the lower back, and extracting spinal fluid. It does not involve x-rays.
The doctors refer to "doing another spinal" in a following scene, a thought that is repulsive to Chris and with good reason: spinals are very painful, as is the arteriogram. Both procedures are usually performed with local anesthesia, but also occasionally light sedation or general anesthesia. The doctors were looking for a lesion in the temporal lobe, and an arteriogram would be the preferred diagnostic technique for this condition. Nowadays, a CT scan or MRI would also be performed. A spinal tap is also used to diagnose neurological disorders, and would have been employed in a case like Regan's. However, no spinal tap procedure appears in the movie!
This is a well crafted horror flick, and like most horror flicks, its premise is b.s. A suspension of disbelief is required for the rational person to enjoy this movie. The problem is that a lot of people actually believe in demonic possession. The reality is brought forth from Father Karras himself when he says "it just doesn't happen anymore" and that all the old stories of possession were merely mental illness, most commonly schizophrenia. Lacking modern ... Read More
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starring: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn
directed by: William Friedkin
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790751672
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790751674
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 26, 2000
Running Time: 122 minutes
Sales Rank: 1515
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 26, 1973
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