Terrifying

Rating: Null/10 (6 May 2011)

What is truly terrifying about this movie is not the effects of the pea soup, or the make-up of Linda Blair, but the unknown. What the person doesn't know will terrify them. In this movie, the characters do not know what is haunting them, and therefore make it more difficult for them to fight it. Amazing acting from 10 year old Linda Blair. The act of possession alone is terrifying, but to hear an innocent 10 year old girl swear and curse they way she did as well as speak and use the cross the way she did was much more terrifying than any effect or make-up. After watching other horror movies, this movie did not scare me as much in effects, especially the scene were Reagan's head spun all the way around. Because I live in a world where any special effect is perfect and flawless, it did not affect me as it did with the people viewing it in the theaters for the first time. Extremely haunting movie.