Shocking...atmospheric...intense...One of the great landmarks in the history of cinema...

Rating: 10/10 (30 July 2007)

The Exorcist (1973)
Number 1 - 1973
Top 3 Greatest Horror Movies Of All Time
In my opinion the most terrifying film ever made. Why? There are no masked maniacs slicing people or cannibals eating people or zombies, nothing like that. Like a few other horror films (The Shining), this is an experience in psychological and supernatural terror.
The Exorcist while it peaks into the supernatural, it does not go to far as to leave the mind comfortable that this thing is 100% impossible to happen. Yes OK, the hovering over the bed and the lacerations on the body maybe. But being possessed by spirits? Well we can't rule that out completely. There is some boundary; the element of the film is bordering some possibilities; it may just happen; could someone really be possessed?
The film that shocked a generation and laid the path for horror films to be made; only a few match the calibre of the Exorcist and that absolute ease to terrify and engulf the viewer. This is landmark cinema.
Grossing $405,000,000 at the worldwide box office, it is still nearly 4 decades on, the most financially successful horror film, even without adjusting it to inflation.
William Friedkin's film is a powerfully shocking and savagely intense horror film that still holds the spot as the film most likely to shock, haunt and terrify. A technical and cinematic landmark.
10/10