Latest version will scare you beyond belief

Rating: Null/10 (21 April 2001)

All the unfeeling losers on here who claim that The Exorcist is laughable or silly are dumb, cheese-eating rats.
Let me tell you - I just saw the 2000 Director's Cut DVD version and this movie is still vastly unsettling and frightening. Most horror movies we can laugh at, knowing that they would never happen in real life...This movie however, tackles a subject that perhaps DOES happen and that's what gets to us the most.
In the end, we're left with the startling images and sounds of a young girl screaming in pain and evil from within her room. And we're left with the thought that although good can always defeat evil, it's always with a sacrifice.
Check out the director's commentary on the 2000 DVD version....Friedikin's insights are helpful and help flesh out the real depth of the movie's themes. The extra 11 minutes of footage add a bizzare "spider-walk" scene where the possessed Regan comes down the stairs in a horrifying fashion as well as some medical exam scenes. Particularly interesting in the medical scenes is the doctor diganosing Regan with a form of ADD and putting her on Ritlin! Friedikin must consider this particularly ironic in light of the mass prescrptions of Ritilin in today's children.
One of the Top 10 movies of all time and certainly one of the Top 3 horror/sci-fi movies of all time.