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Do You Agree? ‘Exorcist’ Ranked Greatest Horror Movie Of All-Time
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| 10/31/18
| Ben Renner
Posted on 10/31/2018 12:07:39 PM PDT by Simon Green
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To: be-baw
“The Omen” is right up there also...Good call...
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posted on
10/31/2018 12:15:03 PM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
To: GSWarrior
Maybe if one is Catholic. But no otherwise. Why would one have to be Catholic to find the film horrific?
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posted on
10/31/2018 12:15:13 PM PDT
by
Simon Green
("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.”)
To: Simon Green
Rosemary’s Baby makes my top five, but I wouldn’t rank it above The Exorcist.
To: Simon Green
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posted on
10/31/2018 12:16:33 PM PDT
by
Bob434
To: Simon Green
Hits closer to home, I guess.
To: Simon Green
Agree. Why? Because it had truth in it: demonic manifestation, and not just fantasy.
To: Simon Green
Scariest book: The Shining
Scariest movie: When a Stranger Calls
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posted on
10/31/2018 12:17:23 PM PDT
by
stinkerpot65
(Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
To: JBW1949
Blair Witch Project ranks right up there... Ill have to disagree on that one. I found the film largely boring and the shaky cam annoying.
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posted on
10/31/2018 12:17:32 PM PDT
by
Simon Green
("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.”)
To: Simon Green
Young Frankenstein. #1.
The Burbs. #2
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posted on
10/31/2018 12:18:12 PM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
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To: Simon Green
Nope. “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes” all the way...
To: Simon Green
It probably affected me more than any other - was just shy of 21 when it came out and I almost reverted to jumping on my bed from a distance so nothing underneath could grab me....
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posted on
10/31/2018 12:19:26 PM PDT
by
trebb
(Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
To: Simon Green
I think "Rosemary's Baby would give "The Exorcist" a run for it's money.
There's no cheap "Bugga Bugga" moments like the slasher in a mask movies just a general feeling of evil waiting til the big moment her baby is revealed in all it's horror.
I like "The Omen" as well.
These movies plus "The Birds" and "Psycho" hold up really well over the years while the Jason and Michael Myers movies look trite with the "gotcha" scenes replacing the tension of a well written script that Alfred Hitchcock did so well for so long.
For kitsch, I really like The Fearless Vampire Hunters"
Sharon Tate was so beautiful.
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posted on
10/31/2018 12:19:46 PM PDT
by
RedMonqey
("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
To: Simon Green
Alien! #1, Sci-Fi Horror.
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posted on
10/31/2018 12:20:50 PM PDT
by
Bringbackthedraft
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To: Simon Green
Original It is pretty darned scary. Psycho is a big favorite but would agree that Exorcist is #1 because I still have trouble sitting thru it.
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posted on
10/31/2018 12:21:24 PM PDT
by
albie
To: Simon Green
The Exorcist has everything that a good horror movie should have. First, its well written and well acted. That is a baseline. But it is realistic enough to scare people. People could imagine it happening. The only other movie that comes to mind that terrorized people as much — or perhaps more — than The Exorcist is Jaws. Jaws created the same deep level of fear in people on a mass scale that The Exorcist did.
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posted on
10/31/2018 12:21:29 PM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: GSWarrior
Perhaps, but Nightmare on Elm Street was highly ranked, and I doubt many people believe in Freddy Krueger.
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posted on
10/31/2018 12:21:54 PM PDT
by
Simon Green
("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.”)
To: Simon Green
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posted on
10/31/2018 12:22:52 PM PDT
by
DFG
To: Simon Green
Anything with Barbara Steisand in it tops my list of horror flicks.
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posted on
10/31/2018 12:23:00 PM PDT
by
EURASLEEP
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To: Simon Green
Ill have to disagree on that one. I found the film largely boring and the shaky cam annoying. Agreed. It's the only film where I should have taken a Dramamine before watching it. I've never felt so motion sick in my life.
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posted on
10/31/2018 12:23:33 PM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
To: Simon Green
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