"Why you did this to me?"

Rating: Null/10 (2 September 2005)

William Friedkin's adaptation of William Peter Blatty's supernatural tale of a young girl possessed by the devil himself caused a firestorm of controversy when it was shown. It had customers fainting, storming out of the theaters in droves and demanding that the film be pulled. Religious viewers were outraged by the blasphemous lines uttered by the possessed child. Some scenes never made it to the final film such as the spider walk scene. The religious ideas of the film may be a bunch of bunk but there's no denying that the film is harrowing. People who saw the film initially were freaked out by the infamous 360 degree head turning scene. The Exorcist is a classic horror film that was the uncontested king of the gross-out movies until Alien came along 6 years later and out did it with the chest burster scene.