Your mother's in here with us Karras, you wanna leave a message?

Rating: 9/10 (24 February 2008)

This is widely considered the scariest movie of all time, and for good reason. The year is 1973, and the scariest movies up-to-date are just monster movies for the most part, like The Trollenberg Terror and Night of the Living Dead. However, this movie soon outdid them all. This movie starts off normal enough, an actress (Chris MacNeil) living a happy life with her daughter(Regan). A priest (Damien Karras) dealing with his estranged mother and his loss of faith. Then suddenly things start to turn for the worst. Things go downhill and eventually leads to Regan being possessed by Pazuzu, a demon lord. This is where the movie is seen as the scariest movie ever, her actions, language, everything was just shocking to people at the time since no movie before it had done things this way. I read that people were hauled away in ambulances from the theaters because of how shocking it was. When I saw this movie, even in 2007 I was surprised by her actions. I can only imagine how scary it was back in 1974. This movie was great, if you want a classic horror film, this is the one for you. Beats the Poltergeist any day. 9/10.