The Exorcist is probably the scariest movie of all time. A few years ago, director William Friedkin and writer William Peter Blatty decided to revisit the movie, adding deleted scenes, new effects, and multi-channel surround to the original. The changes affect the overall feel of the picture, but mostly in a positive way. The original was pretty damn good as it was.
Visual effects are still fairly top-notch, and the result still terrifies.
However, most of the scenes added in to the Version You ve Never Seen, recently released to DVD by Warner Home Video, are scenes that add to the production. The ending is also slightly changed, giving the feel a more uplifting feel and opening the door for Exorcist III . One of the better scenes in the ordinal is Father Karras dream sequence in which he sees the pale white demonic face of Mr. Howdy. In the new version, the face is digitally imposed constantly throughout the movie, including on a stove. Sometimes it works, but mostly, a bit of overkill.