There will NEVER be another like it...

Rating: Null/10 (16 October 2000)

I just felt that it needed to be said that...I don't know WHY filmmakers have seemingly degenerated in talent sooo much since The Exorcist, but...there will NEVER be another of this genre of film as good or better than The Exorcist. I didn't have the luxury of seeing it the original time in the theater as I was born in 1973, but I've seen it MANY times on video/DVD and just recently in it's newest incarnation in the movies. It has never "scared the hell out of me" as most say, though I think it is absolutely intense and very much a fearless film in its presentation. They depicted scenes so graphically and most importantly INTEGRAL to the story...no movie has even come close! The list of pretenders is seemingly endless: Stigmata, Lost Souls, End of days, Ninth Gate...so many like themed films...and all nowhere near as good! I feel sorry for current moviegoers think that they maybe scared when seeing a current film because it just doesn't happen anymore...The House on Haunted Hill, the Haunting...these "horror" films are simply HORRID!! I've seen Exorcist twice now and it is still 100 times more enjoyable than seeing "The Watcher", which is dubbed on tv commercials as "the scariest movie you'll see this fall". So everyone, rejoice in our late 70's religious horror flicks (Exorcist/Omen, etc.) because filmmakers have completly chickened out...