Scares the crap out of me time and time again.

Rating: Null/10 (8 August 2002)

Yeah... that pretty much says it all. The Exorcist is one of those movies that is going to continue to have an effect upon audiences for a long time. It'll get you, too. Don't worry. You'll find something in it that freaks you right the hell out someday. The performances are great. The use of light is absolutely perfect, particularly when it comes to hiding creepy iconography in the shadows that you're not reeeeally sure you saw in the first place. It is probably one of the only movies that consistently scares me, hand in hand with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It IS dated, and lends itself to moments of retrospective absurdity for audiences more used to modern conventions - both social and cinematic. But, when you get right down to it... it's damn creepy. Really damn creepy. I mean... damn. Creepy.