This is a great film which no doubt will suffer a little from age, but I think it will hold up pretty well considering that fact.

I would say this is one that's worth a see, even if you are a bit timid to see it.
--One last note: our fake vomit technology has come a long way!!

I had not seen this film before. In light of all the hype I expected something quite shocking but this was not the case.

I found that the film had continuity problems. I could not understand how the piece dug up in Iraq found its way to the US or what its relevance was to the whole film. I assume Linda Blair becomes possessed as a result of playing with a Ouiji board but it is not clear what the connection with Iraq is then? All very strange.

I thought the acting was generally ok but it is clear that this was not a big-budget film. if it was somebody certainly skimmed off some money. Here in Melbourne we had a bit of a kerfuffle about whether the film should be shown on Easter Friday. Ultimately it was but only 10 people showed up.

In summary I found it an interesting film although the special effects let the film down somewhat. The vomit isn't scary - just messy. I think though that this film is a good candidate for a remake. With the right director and budget it could be made into a genuinely terrifying film.

3 stars out of 5

cheers Peter

I had not seen this film before. In light of all the hype I expected something quite shocking but this was not the case.

The mix was sensational and by far the best use of the E.X. system I've heard...

The film itself has not lost too much of its effectiveness. It is still able to scare the shit out of most of the patrons. It is nice to see patrons commenting about this as truly scary but not relying on gore to be scary as seems to be the way to make a 'scary' movie these days.

I have a problem however with going back and altering scenes. This started with Star Wars episode IV. I hated what George Lucas did to that film as I've mentioned before, but here William Friedkin has done the same thing and it pissed me off as much as Star Wars did. I read a quote where he said he wanted to add these effects when he originally made the film but the technology wasn't available.

What garbage!

I don't mind re-recording the soundtrack and cleaning up the print...I don't even mind adding scenes if they are necessary and effective (Regan coming down the stairs backwards was especially effective and I was not ready for that one!) But to actually add an effect to make it 'scarier' to me seems silly and not so much an artistic addition, but an addition added to cater to what the kids want in this day and age and to me that's pretty sad.

One more observation...Our print was titled 'The Exorcist director's cut' then there is a very bad negative splice and the action continues... My question is...was it called this in the States or was it 'Exorcist 2000' as it was labeled on the leaders and tails of the print and also on the dts discs. We were to have opened this last October, but it was put back intil March 2001 so I guess calling it '2000' here would have sounded too silly. The title on the opening credits also looks as if 'The Exorcist' has been optically moved to the top of the frame and and 'Director's Cut' (not even 'The' Director's Cut) was very poorly added.

Anyone remember what the opening title had as the name of the film?

7.5/10

Go see it and be truly scared by an excellent script.

What has staid with me was a medical X-ray scenes. With the whole catheter in the neck business. I don't really like medical stuff. It's why I hated 'The Craft'.

IT felt a little too long. I felt that it took far too long to get started.