Dramatic and powerful!!

Rating: 9/10 (19 July 1999)

A famous actress's adolescent daughter is possessed by a demon.Her desperate and frantic mother decides that her child's only chance lays on a old, seen-it-all priest. Horror film that revolutionized the gender and caused great polemic.Director William Friedkin transformed the William Peter Blatty's story in a powerful and frightening visual show about possession and salvation, and changed the conception of how to construct a really scary movie.At the time "The Exorcist" was filmed, horror flicks were in frank decadence and reduced to Frankenstein and Dracula's films, but Friedkin made the difference with this memorable motion picture and i believe that after Friedkin ,the only movie maker who reached such quality of fear and tension was Clive Barker with "Hellraiser". If "The Exorcist" is in some moments dramatic, in others violent, "Hellraiser" is a psychological thriller with almost unbearable cruelty ,and as Friedkin, Barker also could count with a terrific cast, beginning with the great and talented english actress Clare Higgins. Good part of "The Exorcist" quality resides in the cast's dramatic and true actings (to begin with young Linda Blair,who was nominated by the Academy for her role) and to the great special effects, that even have been done through simple and old techniques, surprise and help to show the exorcism's scenes in a faithful and raw form."The Exorcist" is not a film recommended for sensitive people. This great public and critic's success had two inferior continuations.