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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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RosaMoline · 09/09/2022 21:47
I’m 55, so I’ve seen most of these movies. The Exorcist - saw it aged 14. Nightmares for weeks. Had to keep my light on. Mum was furious when I confessed!
still love the movie now, and can finally watch it alone at night.
The Shining, the first 2 Omen movies, the original Evil Dead, Hammer House of Horror (the House that bled death?), Asylum with Robert Powell - all absolutely terrifying.
I saw Blair Witch at the cinema. I thought it was incredibly boring, over hyped and not frightening at all.
Florenz · 09/09/2022 21:47
MingeofDeath · 09/09/2022 21:34
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The Exorcist was terrifying in it's day. All the restrictions on cinema had only recently been loosened. People were a lot more religious and there really hadn't been anything like it on the mainstream cinema screen upto that point.
The 1980s "The Fly" is the movie I remember people being freaked out by. I was on a school trip to London at the time and remember seeing Ambulances parked outside the cinema and people were fainting and having panic attacks.
JemimaPiddleDick · 09/09/2022 21:47
I was b young when it came out but watched it as a teen on video at a friend’s house, it was at the time a fairly scary movie.
DP and I went to see it at a special midnight screening years later and there were people who left mid way through the screening and the foyer was full of people laying flaked out, fanning themselves etc.
For me t wasn’t scary in a “jump scare” sort of Halloween / Friday 13th kind of way, more suspenseful and the broader concept of possession, good v evil etc
WoodlandMummy · 09/09/2022 21:51
My mother told me there was a priest outside the cinema begging people not to go in, ambulances outside and people screaming and running out of the cinema.
I mean, what did the people who were screaming expect? They had gone to see a horror movie called the Exorcist. It’s not that bleedin’ scary 🙄
alwaysdarkestbeforedawn · 09/09/2022 21:54
Windbeneathmybingowings · 09/09/2022 21:53
I have heard all these stories and am a horror buff.
i have puked watching one film and was in a cinema when someone else puked (diff film). So going off that I reckon you had one or two pukers and fainters but nothing like legend suggests.
Which film made you puke?
Windbeneathmybingowings · 09/09/2022 21:56
Pugdogmom · 09/09/2022 21:24
I thought it was so frankly ridiculous , I laughed. Watched it in the late 70s and underage.
Now the Omen....that was terrifying as much more realistic 😳
Agreed. The Omen gets you because it’s based off the Bible so what if we really have been reading revelation wrong this whole time… and the close camera work at the end.
Billy Whitelaw is just stunning in everything.
Hesleepswiththefishes · 09/09/2022 21:56
We are now so desensitised
i saw silence of the lambs on vhs as a teen and was so distressed as I had no concept of serial killers or torture
saw Jurassic park at 18 and was terrified it was so noisy
was at uni and saw a midnight cinema showing of the exorcist with my new friends and was absolutely terrified…the staircase scene?
I think most post 16s now would laugh at the exorcist and not be bothered at Jurassic park
would not want my kids to see silence if the lambs until they are adults
have you seen keepers creepers??? I think I was 30 when I saw that and was absolutely terrified 🤢
Windbeneathmybingowings · 09/09/2022 21:56
alwaysdarkestbeforedawn · 09/09/2022 21:54
Which film made you puke?
Windbeneathmybingowings · 09/09/2022 21:53
I have heard all these stories and am a horror buff.
i have puked watching one film and was in a cinema when someone else puked (diff film). So going off that I reckon you had one or two pukers and fainters but nothing like legend suggests.
Braindead when the gran eats her own ear in the custard. It was the small bone crunching noises and she didn’t wipe her mouth 😂
alwaysdarkestbeforedawn · 09/09/2022 21:57
Windbeneathmybingowings · 09/09/2022 21:56
Braindead when the gran eats her own ear in the custard. It was the small bone crunching noises and she didn’t wipe her mouth 😂
alwaysdarkestbeforedawn · 09/09/2022 21:54
Which film made you puke?
Windbeneathmybingowings · 09/09/2022 21:53
I have heard all these stories and am a horror buff.
i have puked watching one film and was in a cinema when someone else puked (diff film). So going off that I reckon you had one or two pukers and fainters but nothing like legend suggests.
Never seen it. Sounds delightful! 🤢🤣
Windbeneathmybingowings · 09/09/2022 21:58
alwaysdarkestbeforedawn · 09/09/2022 21:57
Never seen it. Sounds delightful! 🤢🤣
Windbeneathmybingowings · 09/09/2022 21:56
Braindead when the gran eats her own ear in the custard. It was the small bone crunching noises and she didn’t wipe her mouth 😂
alwaysdarkestbeforedawn · 09/09/2022 21:54
Which film made you puke?
Windbeneathmybingowings · 09/09/2022 21:53
I have heard all these stories and am a horror buff.
i have puked watching one film and was in a cinema when someone else puked (diff film). So going off that I reckon you had one or two pukers and fainters but nothing like legend suggests.
It’s directed by Peter Jackson of LOTR fame 😂
Hambledy · 09/09/2022 21:59
Silence of the lambs is still emotionally draining though even now that you could spend 24 hours watching programmes about serial killers just flicking through the Freeview schedule. I mean I think it genuinely has a depth to it and that makes it powerful.
I loved Jeepers Creepers! I thought it was inventive in a good way - it was a novel idea.
That Tom Hanks film about the bookshop and the emails made me puke. Fucking horrific that was.
catandcoffee · 09/09/2022 22:01
PuppyMonkey · 09/09/2022 21:57
One of the best horror films I’ve ever seen was actually a TV mini Series - Salam’s Lot from the early 1980s with David Soul and, slightly amazingly, James Mason. Bloody terrifying.
Gosh yesssssss.
Forgot all about that one it was amazingly terrifying 😫
Lesina · 09/09/2022 22:03
The exorcist was of it’s time. Horror until then was suggestion and metaphor. We were terrified by The Devil Rides Out. The exorcist tapped into that childhood fear… monsters in the cupboard, spiders in the bed.
The over hyped American slasher movie pale into comparison
Pumpkinsanddaisies · 09/09/2022 22:03
I am a huge horror fan and have loved some really gory and scary stuff. But really embarrassingly I got really freaked out when I saw the film Signs at the cinema. In my defense other people in the showing were screaming out when you saw the aliens. Anyway the night I saw that film there was a small earthquake in the early hours that shook my house and bed, (unusual, obvs in the UK) I was so scared and thought aliens were coming to invade us! I made my husband at the time put the light on for the rest of the night, Because that would have seen them off!😂
balkanscot · 09/09/2022 22:05
I must have seen it every Halloween since the early 1990s and I still get petrified. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. The flashing demon face that subliminally appears throughout the film gives me the shivers .
“Don’t Look Now” with Donald Sutherland & Julie Christie. Yikes! I always go for atmospheric ones rather than full on blood & axe & chopping off bits.
Someone mentioned The Devils with Oliver Reed. Off to Google.
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