The review I'm even too scared to write!

Rating: 10/10 (7 September 2011)

I can not say anything about the initial impact of the film, as it is I was not around in 1973, but I can testify to the lasting effect this film has had. By the time I came around, the film had already been around a couple of decades, but each time it is introduced to a new generation it becomes brand new all over again. I remember that sinking feeling, deep down in my soul, when I realized what was going on in the film. I can never remember being that petrified by any other film before it, or since. I can watch that film today and still get that same feeling I got when I was seven-years-old. No one person can claim all the credit due to how creepy this film is. The voices, noises, and dialogue are a major part. Also, the completely terrifyingly realistic make-up and effects are possible more important. Yet I believe that the part that eats away at us year after year is the subject matter.
We are all scared of what lurks in the dark, whether we admit it or not. What if that creature or being that we are so afraid of was to enter our bodies and steal our souls. It really is absolutely horrifying! The way that this film was made was just perfectly so. It created exactly the atmosphere necessary yo convey the story in all of it's entirety. I am giving myself the creeps just writing about it. Just thinking on it to write a review, little Linda Blair's face scratched and mutilated from the demon inside her, creeped out. Will I sleep with the light on tonight after writing this review? Of coarse.