Vacuous plot --- Gratuitous dreck!

Rating: 1/10 (25 November 2006)

Take a timid soap opera, punctuate it with a self-mutilating contortionist complete with a nasty idiolect, rendered, I might add, in exquisite 'Bronx' (Don't mind the worst lip-syncing this side of Milli Vanilli) and voilà!!! The greatest horror flick of all time? I don't think so...
I found nothing frightening at the visceral-level when viewed at age twelve (immediatly following the film's release -- well, OK! The 'rolling' sound in the attic was kind of creepy) --- Neither do I presently descry a shred of psychological 'intrigue' at 45...
Moreover I regard plots featuring minors in explicit prurient roles as inappropriate (at best) --- Artistic license be dammed!!! --- Granted, ugly subjects must, at times, for the benefit of the aggrieved, be brought home to the public in the starkest possible manner --- However The Exorcist is no PSA --- Rather it's an artistic void 'garnished' with a smattering of gratuitous 'kiddie porn' -- all guised in 'cinematic integrity'...
My rating: (NEGITIVE Aleph[0])
Sincerely Dan Sarandon