Sympathy for the Devil (Hopefully no Spoilers)

Rating: Null/10 (18 October 1999)

This is one of the most powerful, interesing and disturbing films I have >seen in a long time. See it, not as a horror movie, but as a very dramatic film that will compel you to keep watching to see how the characters develop in the film. True, it is prime horror, focusing on the one person/thing.... I was completely terrified of the thing that was inside Regan, while it ranted and raved at the people around it.... but the other people in the film will keep you very much interested with their parts in the film as well. Max Von Sydow is excellent as the Exorcist, as he nearly always is in many of the films he stars in(does he ever stop playing religious parts?)..... Ellen Burstyn is great as the distraught mother..... and Linda Blair creates an aura of malevolence as Regan/Pazuzu (although Mercedes McCambridge voiced the part of the demon, to terrifying extent). This film will terrify you, compel you, and furthermore will lead you to question the eternal question - is there heaven and hell? I certainly believed in hell when this film was over!