More Sacrilegious Than Scary

Rating: 2/10 (3 September 2016)

My friend and I were on a couple days binge on horror movies. Of course, The Exorcist was on the top of our list, a movie we hardly knew anything about. We were ready to have a great scare!
Who can forget the iconic scene of The Exorcist--yes, that one with the streetlight (perhaps all books dealing with film have at least one still frame of The Exorcist). The cinematography by Owen Roizman is that good. The acting was okay. The story, horrible.
The movie feels like a two-part story of suspense versus gratuitous sacrilege--the first part full of intrigue and mystery, the latter part a fright-less mayhem. I was shocked at my apathetic response. I actually thought I would be scared. After seeing The Exorcist, my friend and I just looked at each other, shrugged our shoulders, and continued onto the next movie.