Apropos of nothing - crowd reactions to ‘The Exorcist’ (1973).
Tremble before THE POWER OF ART.
Posted on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008by kicking_k
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that girl at the end who says ‘I’m not going back in there’, that’s a bit odd, surely no-one is, the film’s finished?
They used to make a lot of those audience reaction compilations - try to find the one for Pink Famingoes “better than Cries & Whispers’ cries one excitable queen.
Posted by Smut on September 3rd, 2008 at 6:00 pm
that girl at the end who says ‘I’m not going back in there’, that’s a bit odd, surely no-one is if the film’s finished?
They used to make a lot of those audience reaction compilations - try to find the one for Pink Famingoes “better than Cries & Whispers’ cries one excitable queen.
Posted by Smut on September 3rd, 2008 at 6:00 pm
great, now I look stupid
Posted by Smut on September 3rd, 2008 at 6:01 pm
but not as stupid as her… i used to be mildly obsessed with The Exorcist. I realised this when we had an earthquake a few months ago, and i woke up and had a burning desire to shout “Mother! Mother, my bed’s shakiiiing!” Mother!” and then throw some cheap pea soup all over the room. It would have been great if i’d had an audience… and had acted quick enough.
Posted by avron on September 4th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Doesn’t anyone else get really scared by horror films? The Exorcist scared tha absolute shit out of me as a child, when I was given the book to read by a sadistic older stepbrother, then again as an adolescent, when I watched the film. I didn’t sleep for several nights. I’m glad I watched the film with only a couple of friends - if i’d seen it in a cinema, on the big screen, with all that human emotion flying around, I think it might have been scarring. I recently watched The Strangers, which effectively prevented me from leaving the window open for about a week, and has since meant I’ve viewed my daily confidential risk reports from the police on violent crime and criminals in the area with… shall we say an enlivened eye?
When I took my niece to the Natural History Museum recently, we saw the dinosaur exhibition, which contained a huge - room-sized - animatronic T-Rex that clawed and bit at the air. She wrapped her arms around me and screamed NO! over and over, even though she understood it was a model, had been discussing how it had been made, had seen an exhibit to that effect. I hear only the echo of that scream when I watch horror films - buried so deep, my imagination. How to unearth it without feeling constantly at risk?
Posted by Petra on September 8th, 2008 at 11:24 am
I haven’t seen a decent horror film in ages - I mean one that actually scares me that’s also a good film. I was probably dulled to primal fear through watching Terminator, Terminator II, Alien and Aliens a lot between the ages of 8 and 10.
The Strangers looked kind of derivative and silly - was it any good?
I don’t remember the Exorcist bothering me overly - I may have fallen asleep the first time, though, which kind of takes the edge off. The Blair Witch Project ruined the local woods of my childhood for me. The Shining was fantastically, confusingly horrific. Ring gave me genuine chills.
More recently, I was seriously underwhelmed by the nasty, unpleasant, weirdly restrictive affair that was The Orphanage. It was pretty nonsensical, and not in a good way.
that girl at the end who says ‘I’m not going back in there’, that’s a bit odd, surely no-one is, the film’s finished?
They used to make a lot of those audience reaction compilations - try to find the one for Pink Famingoes “better than Cries & Whispers’ cries one excitable queen.
Posted by Smut on September 3rd, 2008 at 6:00 pm