Boo!

Rating: 9/10 (19 September 2008)

Everybody talks about how scary this movie is. It didn't scare me. Everybody talks about faith. I have none. Everybody talks about how it makes you THINK! Think about WHAT??? It's a good flick, in its day it was a great one. I avoid horror movies like the plague. I've only seen 2 others. "The Omen" (suckered into it by my liking for Gregory Peck, it upset the hell out of me, god had nothing to do with it, it was things like people getting their head cut off! I've hated Gregory Peck ("Arabesque," "Moby Dick" and all) ever since) and "The Revenge of Frankenstein" which I saw when I was 10 years old and was in a state of terror and horror for days afterwards. These were trash. "The Exorcist" had some class. But it's well to remember that this is nothing but a movie. It is not a documentary of science failing and religion saving the day. It is a movie! It's not the holy grail. It's not even holy. Except the little rows of punched out squares along either side of the celluloid.