A winner in any version.

Rating: 10/10 (6 February 2007)

My Take: In any version available, THE EXORCIST maintains tension, shocks and indisputable drama.
Even famous horror icons of today like "The Ring", "The Grudge" and even the prequel "Exorcist:The Beginning" is inept to "The Exorcist". Even through all this years, even in these times where "horror" means more gore than story, it's still very convincing.
The Performances are excellent. Ellen Burstyn, Max Von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb and Jason miller give performances that deeply highlights the story's essence. But Linda Blair is the real star of the show as the possessed girl of the story, a role that she will be deeply remembered.
The script is well pressed into William Peter Blatty's superb novel. While William Friedkin directs with great talent and creativity.
This film really deserves its title as the "scariest movie of all time.". "The Exorcist" really deserves to be the highest-rated movie in the horror genre.
The film is either distributed on DVD on a restored original format or the "Version You've Never Seen". But in any way, both versions sum up an excellent movie that has, well, words hardly can explain.
Rating: ***** out of 5.