Excellent movie with no virtual reality

Rating: 10/10 (24 April 2007)

Horror films have been reduced to virtual reality images representing demons, monsters, or other evil entities. "The Exorcist" did not use any of this bogus technology that we see in these genre of films nowadays, which makes "The Exorcist" a genuine cinematographic masterpiece in this genre of movies. However, I understand that the author of the book upon which this movie is based got his idea for this story in 1950 and spent many years trying to get his book published without running into censorship. In any event, breakthrough books and movies are usually the ones that do the best. My mother told me that she was quite intrigued when she read the book to "Rosemary's Baby" in the early 1960s, because she had never come across any book like it back during that time period. I don't know what exact year the book to "The Exorcist" was published. I haven't had the occasion to read the book to this movie, but I have heard only good comments about it. However, I can say that whatever the book to this movie is like, if it strongly resembles the movie, it has to be a far cry from the conventional vampire or other scary books that may have been on the shelf at the time of its publication. As for the movie "The Exorcist", by 1973, people were ready for something different than Christopher Lee in vampire makeup or Vincent Price terrorizing his house guests in a creepy dark castle, and "The Exorcist" gave horror fans something new to digest. Hilariously enough, some people I know who saw "The Exorcist" said that they thought that it was a sincere account of a parent dealing with pre-teen hell with their daughter, who can be more terrifying than Linda Blair was in "The Exorcist." Oh, well. It was a good movie in either event.