A powerful film to say the least.

Rating: 10/10 (30 July 2006)

This movie is, at the moment, tied with the Japenese "Premonition" for my favorite horror film of all-time. Perhaps "The Exorcist" has a slight advantage, though.
First of all, whether it is a true story or not, it still has extremely strange circumstances surrounding the making of this movie.
I think something like 13 people died during the making, the set burned down mysteriously (no one knows why, even to this day) as well as the crew being plagued with minor difficulties.
I have heard conflicting view on whether or not the actual exorcism occurred, but I tend to believe that no matter how improbable, these sort of things do happen.
Call me religious. Call me superstitious. That's just what I believe.
Also, the acting is amazing. I know a lot of it is real, like the angered look on the mother's face when she gets slapped across the room, and the frightened look from the Regan when she is flipping out on the bed. The are REAL emotions the actors went through, because they were being pulled too violently (in both cases) by the men who were pulling the ropes for 'special effects' behind them.
However, whether you, yourself believe in the above mentioned things or not, this is not a forgettable film whatsoever. My recommendation is to watch it either completely alone or with one other person at the most in a pitch-black environment. If you aren't freaked out and/or if your jaw is not dropped open by the end of the film, then I'll know you're watching it from a little cell in an unknown prison, Charles Manson.