Nothing to drop your head for

Rating: 5/10 (14 February 2010)

I've read the novel, but this is the first time i've seen The Directors Cut, (the movie) which contains extra materials, such as removed scenes and so on. Due to i read the novel, i have never cared to see the movie, for the reason that the movie use to be not that good as the novel.
Over all, this movie wasn't scary at all. I cannot prevent myself from making parallels to the move REC, where everyone also freaked out and kinda overreacted. Does people know what a horror movie is? Or have they just forgot how a real horror movie shall be?
Anyway, if we looking at this particular move, The Exorcist, we still have too keep in mind that this movie was made of it's time "best" special effects. So it got its own charm. At 1970 the computer wasn't Rock And Roll in every scary movies, that they are these days.
However; the story is perfect for a horror movie. A demon taking over a little girls body and turn her into some kind of a monster. The problem starts when you're suppose to visualization the plot into a movie. Stephen King's movies, to take one example. His stories only works on book, but not on the screen. Same thing here.
Folks saying; "This is the scariest movie of all time". Well, maybe a bit too much saying? A girl who runs on her back downwards a stair, and rotating her head around and masturbate with a crucifix. Those was the three climax scenes during the whole movie; and the Head-Spinning thing just left the biggest hole in the plot ever; sure, it may work on paper, but, honestly, that girl would be so dead afterward. It isn't a sci-fi movie after all.
The thing that scared me most in this movie was the short scene cuts where they show the devil, or his face. Except that, this movie was a regular horror film, where people overreacting (like for REC), but it think it has to do with that this movie theme considering the Religion in some way.
I give The Exorcist a rate of 5, because i like the story, and the acting where also good. In overall it is a 5, but the scary score will sink to just 2/10. The Novel however; is like ten times better than the movie tho!