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Cultural Impact Of The Exorcist (1973)

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Cultural Impact of The Exorcist 1973:



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:lol:

Some of those audience interviews had me cracking up.

But real talk back in the 70s this movie really shook a lotta people up. Still ranks as the only movie that actually scared me and screwed with my head long after the movie went off.
 
LOL some family peeps of mines still sleep with the lights on after seeing that movie, claims some demons tried to get him after watching it way back :smh:
 
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biggboye5000 said:
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But real talk back in the 70s this movie really shook a lotta people up. Still ranks as the only movie that actually scared me and screwed with my head long after the movie went off.
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This right chea especially as a young, big headed kid who begged to see this without knowing shit about it. Just a shadow outline of the priest @ the door.
1st cable movie I saw years after it came out. That's what I get:smh::lol:

Already recovered from the shookness, pt sleepwalking & being sat the fuck down so it aint shit anymore. Am I in a hurry to watch these though:hmm:

I think Blair said she doesnt even remember playing that shit as a child & real mofuckas died while it was being made:smh:


All other horror movies since this have been comedies with :lol: moments literally (Halloweens, Fri, Freddy, etc)
 
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This right chea especially as a young, big headed kid who begged to see this without knowing shit about it. Just a shadow outline of the priest @ the door.
1st cable movie I saw years after it came out. That's what I get:smh::lol:

Already recovered from the shookness, pt sleepwalking & being sat the fuck down so it aint shit anymore. Am I in a hurry to watch these though:hmm:

I think Blair said she doesnt even remember playing that shit as a child & real mofuckas died while it was being made:smh:


All other horror movies since this have been comedies with :lol: moments literally (Halloweens, Fri, Freddy, etc)
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I was too young to see it at the theater so I saw the cut up edited version on TV with no blood no gore and no cursing and it still screwed with me.

I was hearing back when it came out when I was a shorty that they wanted to give the movie an X rating. I definitely remember hearing the wild stories from audience members seeing the film when it first came out.
 
"On the day after Christmas in 1973, Oscar-winning director William Friedkin followed up the tremendous success he enjoyed with "The French Connection" (1971), with the most daring horror film ever made; an adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s novel "The Exorcist." Blatty, a devout Catholic, had been inspired by a 1949 Washington Post article entitled "Priest Frees Mt. Rainier Boy Reported Held In Devil’s Grip," and carefully crafted his novel around the area in Georgetown where he attended Jesuitical Georgetown University. Although the movie barely escaped an "X" rating by the MPAA ratings board, it was treated as an "X" movie in cities like Boston and Washington D.C. where children under 17 were not admitted into theaters showing the film."

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"It may be that the times we live in have prepared us for this movie. And Friedkin has admittedly given us a good one. I’ve always preferred a generic approach to film criticism; I ask myself how good a movie is of its type. “The Exorcist” is one of the best movies of its type ever made; it not only transcends the genre of terror, horror, and the supernatural, but it transcends such serious, ambitious efforts in the same direction as Roman Polanski’s “Rosemary’s Baby.” Carl Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc” is a greater film--but, of course, not nearly so willing to exploit the ways film can manipulate feeling.

“The Exorcist” does that with a vengeance. The film is a triumph of special effects. Never for a moment--not when the little girl is possessed by the most disgusting of spirits, not when the bed is banging and the furniture flying and the vomit is welling out--are we less than convinced. The film contains brutal shocks, almost indescribable obscenities. That it received an R rating and not the X is stupefying."

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biggboye5000 said:
I was too young to see it at the theater so I saw the cut up edited version on TV with no blood no gore and no cursing and it still screwed with me.

I was hearing back when it came out when I was a shorty that they wanted to give the movie an X rating. I definitely remember hearing the wild stories from audience members seeing the film when it first came out.
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You're lucky.

They played that bitch back then when it was the hottest thing to hit the home box office (back when that bitch had a cord & buttons on their 2 and 3 rowed push plastic loud button remote control).

Even now, IFC channel plays it but they have commercials now, chopped, cropped & shit.
The majors don't run it much but the straight original & now that uncut one in the other spot, played straight through to a child or some unsuspecting adult back then definitely got to some.
They play the prequels & sequels but not the original.
I even see Omen on cable more than this.


The build up of unknown & fear, the imagery, the breathing, the room, the latin, the still like u could actually smell the stench......the spine breaking.....

A cold, somewhat disturbing movie @ & for the time when it dropped.
 
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bborn said:
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This right chea especially as a young, big headed kid who begged to see this without knowing shit about it. Just a shadow outline of the priest @ the door.
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me not knowing what exorcist meant back then,when i first saw that trailer i got the impression that the priest was some kind of boogeyman..was like"no why is she opening that door.." and when the frame froze i was thinking dude was going to kill her :lol:
 
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ThaBurgerPimp said:
me not knowing what exorcist meant back then,when I first saw that trailer I got the impression that the priest was some kind of boogeyman..was like "no why is she opening that door.." and when the frame froze I was thinking dude was going to kill her :lol:
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:yes:
Yet ironically precisely the opposite happens:lol:

By the way, wtf is a 'trailer'? hbo's slick marketing strategy was to be a unassuming as possible, similar to how Jaws was promoted in press ads @ first.
Straight still shot outline with the Title.

Somewhere else some years later,
an even dumber child wanted, no insistently begged to see an R rated flick on cable where the vague assed still shot ad in the guide screams "boogeymen" & death:rolleyes::hmm:
 
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bborn said:
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:yes:
Yet ironically precisely the opposite happens:lol:

By the way, wtf is a 'trailer'? hbo's slick marketing strategy was to be a unassuming as possible, similar to how Jaws was promoted in press ads @ first.
Straight still shot outline with the Title.

Somewhere else some years later,
an even dumber child wanted, no insistently begged to see an R rated flick on cable where the vague assed still shot ad in the guide screams "boogeymen" & death:rolleyes::hmm:
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They were real smooth with that marketing. It was a mystery to me as a kid because the movie posters and the trailers always showed you most of the story or at least the best parts of it or the setup.

This movie did none of that. They showed you nothing. If you hadn't read the book you were totally unprepared for the onslaught. All of the hype was pure word of mouth. And even then nobody could really describe or explain it. You just had to see it for yourself.

I had a vague idea of what to expect but was still unprepared by the time I finally saw it.

And the first hour or so in Iraq especially for a kid or the average popcorn munching moviegoer was pure boredom. As I got older I appreciated all of it from a film lover's perspective. The whole Iraq thing is all backstory.
 
Interesting in that this movie is just as much a character study of how the priest had lost his faith and regained it.

That bitch's face still fucks with me though, and Goddamnit should be banned for having it as his avy.
 

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