Still the no.1 horror movie !

Rating: 10/10 (18 November 2002)

The Exorcist still ranks in my top 100 films, and is by far the
highest ranked horror movie of the lot. It is far scarier than The
Curse of Frankenstein (another landmark horror movie) and still
beats off all its imitations (including all of its sequels and naff
rip-offs like The Devil Within Her). I can't make it clear in mere
words just how spooked I was after seeing this film for the first
time. I'm equally hard-pushed to describe how disturbing it is to
see a young girl possessed by the Devil, inflicting sexual pain on
herself and spouting out obscentities. Any good horror film needs
to make you think, make you believe and disturb you enough to
push you out of your "comfort" zone. This movie dfoes all of those
things and a whole lot more. It is the yardstick by which I measure
any modern horror film, and so far I have yet to see a film which
surpassed it.