Undeserved Reputation

Rating: Null/10 (11 June 2004)

I wanted to like this movie. I really did. For years I had heard that it was one of the scariest horror movies of all time, and horror fan that I am, I knew I had to see it. So last year I finally did. And let me tell you, it's a bad sign when you find your biggest reaction to a horror movie to be laughter.
The first half of The Exorcist is loaded with long pointless scenes that don't serve to move along the plot or help to develop the characters in any way. The second half contains more of the same, punctuated with unintentionally funny scenes of Linda Blair acting "possessed". Basically the only thing I got out of The Exorcist was the realization that the whole concept of demonic possession is pretty goofy.