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Did people exaggerate about The Exorcist movie?
EbbyEbs · 09/09/2022 20:16
DH and I have just been talking about horror movies and we have both heard the same stories off our parents about how people were fainting in the cinema and how there were constant ambulances being called to the cinema etc
I saw someone saying this on a documentary about it too that there were “ambulances lined up outside the cinemas”
Surely not?
We’re not old enough to know for sure but these stories are exaggerated surely? It wasn’t even that scary! Most of the film is pretty boring if we’re being honest!
Am I being unreasonable?
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MingeofDeath · 09/09/2022 20:42
The Exorcist is one of the cinematic watershed films. Before it was released there had been nothing like it before. For those saying it wasnt scary, remember you are viewing it through a 40 plus years old lens so have been used to the gore. At the time it really was revolutionary cinema. Stills stands up imho.
Mrsjayy · 09/09/2022 20:44
mamabear715 · 09/09/2022 20:41
Actually, this post just reminded me - I worked in a department store back in the olden days, lol - the toy dept stocked OIUJA BOARDS.. I kid you not.. :-0
We used to play wit ouji boards as teenagers you could buy them in woolies!
NoHomers · 09/09/2022 20:46
EbbyEbs · 09/09/2022 20:34
😂 good point. You’d be waiting 4 hours now at least
NellesVilla · 09/09/2022 20:33
At least they could get an ambulance in those days.
Legit modern day horror story.
IncompleteSenten · 09/09/2022 20:47
Compare it to the gore fest's we get today and yes it's tame.
But people hadn't been exposed to years of the saw and shit like that.
Same with porn. See a 70s film and you feel like you could watch it over a cup of tea with the vicar compared to the atrocities that are modern videos!
catandcoffee · 09/09/2022 20:48
I was very under age when I saw it in the cinema. Yes people did walk out terrified.
I put a brave face on and persevered 😩
Until I went home to my bedroom, upstairs in the attic , with the trap door thing in the ceiling....I never slept a wink that night.
I've never been brave enough to watch it again. Remember it was a film of its own time.
Mykittensmittens · 09/09/2022 20:50
I think it’s an ‘of its time’ thing.
I remember it well
I also remember the two other films that truly gave me the willies. 1. the entity (apparently based on a true story and 2. The shining.
dd is 14 and completely having a teen ‘horror’ phase. We watched original Amityville Horror with me and she laughed the way through it.
So, i looked up the terrifying ‘shining’. was very surprised to see it was certified a 15. Not the terrifying 18 I recalled.
she watched it with me and was very ‘meh’!! She loves the book though.
things move on. I think?
saveforthat · 09/09/2022 20:53
I went to see it when I was 15 (I looked older) Yes people were screaming fainting etc. Religious people were demonstrating outside the cinema. We had read the book on a geography field trip (do those stilk happen). Anyway I was terrified and my friend was too scared to go home on the bus and had to stay at mine.
Sometimeswinning · 09/09/2022 20:53
Delabruche · 09/09/2022 20:38
I found it and The Blair Witch Project terrifying. I'm obviously a big softie!
Both are very clever and we're still talking about them! Not everyone gets or appreciates both these films. Or when they came out. I'm not sure the op could name a better horror pre 2000!
Slushycuppa · 09/09/2022 21:01
EbbyEbs · 09/09/2022 20:38
The Blair Witch Project is very boring.
Paranormal Activity is another bore-fest
See I thought paranormal activity was scary. But my DH was going through a sleep walking phase around the time we saw that. So I was a bit freaked out by the bits when she stood there for hours at night.
Does anyone remember that Ghostwatch programme in the 90s with Sarah Greene and Michael Parkinson. That scared the shit out of me when I saw it!!
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