seriously overrated

Rating: 3/10 (4 April 2012)

The Exorcist is always ranked amongst the best horror films ever made. I was bored to death by the whole thing. I don't have even the slightest belief in the devil or the Easter bunny for that matter, so I thought that Regan(Linda Blair) spitting out pea soup while her head spun around in a circus like manner was just downright silly.
Blair, along with Max Von Sydow, Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller, and Lee J Cobb are all very good but I thought that Rosemary's Baby and The Devil's Advocate are better movies in this genre than The Exorcist.
William Friedkin directed and stayed loyal to the book with a cold and dark atmosphere but the two hour running time seems longer as the run up to the climactic battle between Father Karras and the prince of darkness was too much build up. I remain unimpressed.