Post by Arlon10 on Jun 2, 2017 12:28:40 GMT
For many at the time, it was scary shit. And it wasn't some B-movie, it was a major production, with noted actors, it made a lot of money, and won Oscars.
And was banned from video in Britain from about 1984 to about 1999. Which was bullshit! What are we? Pussies? Fucking pansy BBFC!!! Assholes!!!! Way to set us back to the Stone Age, wankers.
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In fact, to show you how stupid that was - it was available on video in the early 80s. It was banned when the BBFC took over censoring videos because of the whole video nasty bullshit, yet Exorcist was never on any nasties list.
The Exorcist
The Exorcist II The Heretic
The Exorcist III
The Exorcist the Beginning (2004)
Dominion prequel to the Exorcist (2005)
I and III are the best, but none of them are edited for television. I would have paid extra for that. I like some of Richard Burton's work especially 1984 (The movie based on the "futuristic" book titled "1984" by George Orwell in 1949, the movie released in 1984).
The 4th and 5th Exorcist movies are the same movie, set in the same place, at the same time, with mostly the same characters. A few characters are different. Some key events are different. That is bizarre, is it not? What other movies have done that?
It seems like picking over junk in a garage sale when they do that.
The 4th and 5th movies were especially anti-militaristic and, perhaps not surprisingly, were not as successful.

