Captain Howdy made me do it.

Rating: 9/10 (3 April 2005)

Way back in 1973, one Oscar winning director was asked to adapt a top selling novel by William Peter Blatty. This director being Wiliam Friedkin, who has made probably the best known horror movie of all time,The Exorcist.
A 12-year-old girl inadvertently becomes possessed by a demon called Pazuzu after playing with an Ouija board. The doctors think that she has something wrong inside her head, but her mother soon comes to think otherwise. The only way that she can be saved is to be exorcised.
Based on a supposedly true event, The Exorcist was THE most shocking movie of its' time. In this day and age it may not shock as it did then but can still pack a powerful punch for those who believe in the power of possession and God and the Devil.
Acting is top notch with Ellen Burstyn knocking in an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a leading role. The Version You've Never Seen is for hardcore fans only and movie purists, the spider-walk being the most talked about scene and the one fans wanted to see most.
Overall a good movie but not great but definitely influential.