Anonymous #2 4d

It was scary by 70s standards

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Anonymous #2 3d

Did you not watch the first two thirds of the movie where she’s being taken to doctors that can’t figure out wtf is wrong with her?

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Anonymous #1 3d

yeah but the movie is called 'the exorcist' so there's no suspense there

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Anonymous #3 3d

^^a lot of people look at a movie out of the context of its time and think it’s funny rather than scary. It’s similar to Jaws in that way.

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Anonymous amethyst_popping_bottles 3d

Yeah today the practical effects in jaws look stupid but back then it send people running out of the theater screaming

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Anonymous #2 2d

I guess you didn’t enjoy Kill Bill then

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Anonymous #1 2d

kill bill wasn't a horror movie lol

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Anonymous #2 2d

So? There was still suspense, no?

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Anonymous #1 2d

not in the same way. I haven't seen it in a while, but (spoilers for kill bill) I remember not being sure if she'd actually do it at the end. the title is her mission, sure, but it's not called "Uma Thurman Kills Bill at the End of the Second One"

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Anonymous #2 1d

You’re grasping at straws now. Is The Exorcist called “The Priest Saves the Possessed Girl After Her Mother Spends Most of the Movie Taking Her to the Hospital”?

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Anonymous #1 1d

No, but at no point in the movie is it a mystery what's happening to her, unless you went in without knowing the title

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Anonymous #2 1d

Uhm, yeah it kind of is. But that doesn’t matter. Part of the appeal is knowing what it is and watching the characters figure it out. Welcome to dramatic irony.

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Anonymous #1 1d

Dramatic irony is fine but it's not at all scary imo

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Anonymous #2 1d

That’s your opinion that you’re entitled to but your argument doesn’t make any sense. Not to mention, it’s still a mystery for how they actually pull off the exorcism. If you actually watched the whole movie you’d remember it doesn’t work.

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Anonymous #1 1d

bro everyone knew the exorcist was about a possessed girl. i don’t know how young you are but nobody was shocked to learn it was about an exorcism. the only scary aspect for the generation was just the use of a child actor using vulgar language and acting heavily out of the norm for the time. it’s a good movie but scary is a stretch by today’s standards and is moderately acceptable for the time it was released

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Anonymous #7 1d

I didn’t say anyone was shocked to learn it was about an exorcism. Why do you think anyone watched the movie?

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