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Post by ck100 on Sept 15, 2021 0:05:08 GMT
Some people look at it more like high camp with the shocking moments being funny.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Sept 15, 2021 0:19:41 GMT
I wasn't nearly old enough to watch it when it came out. When I finally did watch it many years later (can't remember if it was at home or at a repertory theatre) it scared the shit out of me. I am pretty sure that at the time I would have agreed with the "scariest movie ever" proposition. Today I don't, although not being a big fan of horror movies I am not sure which one I would pick instead.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Sept 15, 2021 4:52:56 GMT
There are movies from the 70s alone that are scarier.
I know that it frightened a lot of people terribly back in 1973, but the kinds of special effects on display were very new and novel at the time. Audiences weren't yet desensitized to visual gore, etc.
The religious angle also struck a chord with a lot of viewers, especially back then. As a non-religious person with no belief in Satan/demons that aspect had no impact on me.
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Post by onethreetwo on Sept 15, 2021 4:58:40 GMT
Martyrs (2008) probably is.
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Post by Sarge on Sept 15, 2021 20:13:19 GMT
I was a teenager and not fully weaned from Christianity when I first saw The Exorcist, but don't remember it as scary, just gross. I was more creeped out by The Omen. Found Halloween to be scarier. Rosemary's Baby more dread inducing. S1 of The Exorcist television series was pretty good, in some ways scarier and more effective than the movie. I haven't been scared by a movie since I was 9 years old so I can't name the scariest movie ever made.
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