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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes pic!
Where do I start with The Exorcist? How about how it’s one of the only real hardcore horror movie crossover films, a movie with underage crucifix masturbation, more cuss words than you can shake a stick at and demonic possession that is also a mainstream film?
Unique is the word. There has never been a film like it before or since. Sure, there’ve been horror films that have done well, that have become part of popular culture, but few of them are regarded as art like this one. When the Catholic Church embraces a horror movie you know you have something special.
Today’s picture features the unsung second star of the film, Eileen Dietz, Linda Blair’s double, as the great Dick Smith applies her facial prosthetics. And not just any prosthetics. In the photo, Smith is hiding the tube that runs under the make-up and spews out the split pea soup.
For all your vomiting pleasure I present a behind the scenes look at The Exorcist! Enjoy!
If you have a pic you think should be included email me. I’m looking for the iconic, the rare or the just plain cool behind the scenes shots to feature here.
Tomorrow’s Behind the Scenes Pic will feature an illegal taking a siesta!
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- Alien
- Big Trouble In Little China
- Clash of the Titans
- Dr. Strangelove
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- The Birds
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- Batman: The TV Series
- Stephen King’s IT
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Superman
- The French Connection
- Tron
- The Road Warrior
- Ghostbusters
- King Kong (’33)
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke with Slate)
- Rebel Without A Cause
- Taxi Driver
- Metropolis
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Tommy Chong Meets The Blues Brothers
- The Empire Strikes Back (Filming the Crawl)
- John Carpenter’s The Thing
- Jaws
- Die Hard
- Aliens
- Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
- The Howling
- Revenge of the Creature
- The Empire Strikes Back (Vader & Luke Duel)
- The Godfather
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- Lawrence of Arabia
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke in Wampa Cave)
- Edward Scissorhands
- The Warriors
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- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Requiem for a Dream
- The Princess Bride
- Hard Boiled
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- They Live
- The Empire Strikes Back (Tippet with Wampa)
- Dirty Harry
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- Blade Runner
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- 1941
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- The Lady Eve
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- The Gate
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- John Carpenter’s The Thing (Bottin)
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- Friday the 13th (1980)
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- Creepshow
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great movie
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Oct. 19, 2010, 8 p.m. CST
i had no idea that blair did not regurgitate the pea soup
by Hey_Kobe_Tell_Me_How_My_Ass_Tastes
what a great fuckin trivia question
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Oct. 19, 2010, 8:02 p.m. CST
so eileen is like the girl in flashdance who did all the booty s
by Hey_Kobe_Tell_Me_How_My_Ass_Tastes
good stuff
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It's called Behind the Mask, the secrets of Hollywood's monster makers. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Behind-Mask-Secrets-Hollywoods-Monster/dp/1852864885 I found it at a comic book store a long time ago, and it has so many awesome pictures. I could just scan the whole book and send it in for this article.
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Haven't popped it in yet but looking forward to watching it, incredible film, very creepy and unsettling.
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let us know how the blu-ray looks. i have the dvd, but am holding off for now on the blu.
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Not one. Today, it's only about SHOCK HORROR.... how much gore you can show or how uncomfortable you can make the audience. Exorcist delved in people's fears, beliefs, and souls.
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great atmosphere. a feeling of dread running through the whole thing.
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The Exorcist is still #1. Nothing else, not even JAWS can top it for primal terror and fear of the dark places. Good to see Eileen Deitz getting some recognition for, by most accounts, a tough shoot.
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The most famous and terror inducing horror film of all time!
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"Your mother sews socks that smell!"
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about the pic of the day? RIP, Mr.C
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He was a playwright who had some minor stage acting experience. Friedkin took a chance and cast him as Father Damien...and movie history was made.<p>I especially love the mentor/protege relationship that Max Von Sydow and Jason Miller were able to establish, with only a few scenes together.<p>And yes, Max Von Sydow kicked all kinds of ass as Father Merrin. Ellen Burstyn was great, as well.
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me bad.
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Only gets better as you get older.
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Most of these behind the scenes pics are boring as hell, this one shows something incredibly cool that shows part of the filmmaking process rather than people just standing around.
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Will do. I never owned it on DVD so buying the Blu was a no-brainer, the packaging is down right purdy too and I am such a sucker for nice packaging.
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a true living legend of cinema..i had such a good ime playing w/ his Monster Make-Up Kit as a boy. That kit had molds for appliances,spirit gum,make-up pencils and best of all instant latex! (just add hot water).
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You get re-possessed.
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Check out 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose' with Dexters wife/sister in the title role. VERY intelligent movie, scary, great cast. I lent it to a Catholic friend of mine and he was scared. So it passed the 'if you believe in crazy stuff this might unsettle you' test.
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hiiiiiiiiiyyyyyyyyyyyyyooooooo!!
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And still the champ.
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Really. Nice work.
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Yes, the really naughty part is that it is underage. Otherwise it is quite ordinary.
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claim their lead monster getting an Oscar. Anyone interested in hearing some chaps talk about this fine film head over to www.matineeidles.com Great stuff.
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makes that movie, it is genuinely creepy. Not just the choice of music but all of the other effects too - the backwards-speaking, the singing, Mercedes McCambridge's voice, the snarling dogs... I could go on. Brilliant!
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Why not? Might as well remake everything while they're at it.
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doing the make-up? I never knew he had that kind of range.
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I watched it on on old Betamax tape while it was still 'banned' in the UK. I'd grown up with the stories about how terrifying it was, how people had heart attacks while watching it in the cinema. So you can imagine how keyed up me and my friends were when we settled down to watch it....... I can't remember laughing so much a film that wasn't a comedy. It was dire, an embaresment to be in a room watching it. I also think it may have been one if the key moments in my life that made me an atheist. If people let this religious nonsense disturbe them to the point their having heart attacks watching a fucking movie, a shit movie at that, then I want no truck with that bollocks. If you think The Exorcist is the scarieist movie ever made, then you shouldn't be allowed out on your own as your clearly a danger to yourselves and others. If you think, like some, that it's the best movie ever made, then you have no taste.
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No question. Nothing else comes close.
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just hilariously ridiculous nonsense. I don't find a second of it actually scary. it's so nonsensical, I don't get how anyone that isn't a SUPER jesus freak is scared by this movie. I know they are, but I just don't get it.<p> there are plenty of classics that aren't my taste, yet I get their appeal. but this might be the only one that just truly escapes me.
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What's it like knowing fuck all?
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Seriously....people who claim that scene is "masturbation" should be kicked in the face...that's rape is what that is. Satan is basically stabbing her cunt with a crucifix. Are you really trying to tell me that Satan is masturbating his vagina? good god...call it what it is.
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Your brain's been drained.
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It means I'm free to look at something and judge it on it's own merits rather than what others say to judge it on. I judge The Exorcist as a piss poor movie. It's a well made and acted piss poor movie I grant you but a movie who's 'power' is based on an ideology that I find repugnant due to its hypocrisy. It's willingness to condone predjudice's based on the lifestyle choices that others practice while at the same time hide appalling levels of abuse that it's practioners and representatives have inflicted upon the most vulnerable in our society. But that's just how I judge things, based on my own experiences. It's a piss poor movie.
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someone that agrees with me!!! the word that completely describes the exorcist is Laughable! i can't believe so many people get behind it?! Quint's movie today is Black Cat, which he called mediocre. fair enough, but black cat has genuine suspense and 'fright'. the exorcist is a joke and i can't believe more people don't see it.
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and how can The Exorcist be well made and acted, yet still be a piss poor movie? The film scares the living hell out of me.
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according to a story on Denofgeek.com............it may actually stand a chance of being halfway decent then.
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Oct. 20, 2010, 4:51 a.m. CST
If you believe in the supernatural, superstition and religious d
by Gabba-UK
Then I can see how you would be scared. I don't believe in any of that nonsense so I consider it funny and stupid. Apologies if that flys in the face of convention, that's just how I roll. For the record, my favourite horror movie is Carpenters version of The Thing. And it's very easy for a film to be well made but be a poor movie. Avatar is arguably Camerons best made film but is easily his weakest in terms of my emotional involvement in it. The Abyss remains his best film. We're moving off topic here a little but I d love to see what Cameron could do with a huge budget and a good horror script.
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Oct. 20, 2010, 4:51 a.m. CST
Gabba, the way you feel about the Exorcist, I feel about the
by V'Shael
Texas Chainsaw Massacre.<br /><br />However, I know that just because I feel something, doesn't necessarily make it objectively fucking true.<br /><br />For fuck sake, even the nomadic peoples of the world have mastered that concept. Cop on to yourself.
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The Exorcist is alright. It definitely has some unsettling scenes, but overall it just didn't work for me. Jaws and The Thing are MUCH better films in my opinion.
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Oct. 20, 2010, 4:54 a.m. CST
I don't believe in Aliens in Antarctica either, but The Thing
by V'Shael
is still a great horror movie.<br /><br />You don't have to believe in something to appreciate it, because movies are fiction. <br /><br />I don't believe in Deadites, and find the concept quite idiotic. Still love the Evil Dead movies though.
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Good call. Another film much better than The Exorcist in my opinion.
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I don't consider Aliens a horror movie. It's an action movie with horror elements.
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Oct. 20, 2010, 5:04 a.m. CST
I was brought up in a superstitious/religious household...
by Righteous Brother
and it scared me. My girlfriend however wasn't so The Exorcist means nothing to her - she can't see what all the fuss is about. I LOVE The Thing btw, but never found it scary. I used to find Robert Wise' The Haunting scary when I was a kid, and Salem's Lot.
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I appreciate the craft that went into The Exorcist and consider it a well made and directed movie. I can be subjective enough to see that. But the conceit behind it, God and Devil, heaven and hell and the like, is such an antithesis to what I consider to be true that I can't take it seriously. I don't believe either in frozen aliens buried in the Antarctic ice but that's due to the scientific evidence about the energy requirements for an alien ship to get here in the first place. But I'm willing to let that go for the story to work. There's nothing in the Exorcist I could suspend disbelieve in long enough for the movie to work for me i.e. Scare the shit out of me.
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Oct. 20, 2010, 5:24 a.m. CST
Actually I can't say if Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the best horr
by Gabba-UK
because I'll freely admit to not being able to watch it all the way through, it scares me that much. So I guess in terms of doing it's job, it the best horror movie made. But The Thing is more enjoyable in my opinion.
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Why do people feel the need to pick a film as the best of that genre? <p> I could never pick a single film for any genre because I have so many that I love to bits for different reasons and they would all be my best.
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Oct. 20, 2010, 6:13 a.m. CST
it all depends on how you watch this film that makes it scary
by vin_diggler
If you get together with a bunch of friends on a Saturday afternoon to watch this film, then yes it will come across as funny and not scary. also if you get caught up in all the hype about people having heart attacks while watching, then yes you will be disappointed. But if you come across it late at night by yourself having know idea what it is about (like I did myself many years ago) then this movie will scare the shit out of you.
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Was it Satan or just silly, old Pazuzu? :D
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The Hottie and the Nottie. The fact that people actually saw the title and read the script and still gave the go ahead to make this film scares the hell outa me.
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It's a three-way tie: Transformers, Avatar and AVP....the only movies I've ever walked out from in a theatre. They take the idea of dreck and up it to nth degree. Now that's an achievement in some ways... and pretty damn scary
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. . . is on . . . MY FOOT !!!
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..The Exorcist was the holy grail of horror movies. Theres nothing like a good ol' banning to pique your interest. It did'nt disappoint. Part III was pretty awesome too. Lets not mention The Heretic...
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There is no proof that aliens exist. UFOs aren't real. Therefore, The Thing is the antithesis of what I believe to be true, so it has no affect on me. Guess I won't be going to see Green Lantern then, either. Bigfoot isn't real, so Harry and the Hendersons is out. No one can really shoot energy beams out of their eyes or turn thier skin into metal, so X-Men is out. No such things as trees that can walk and talk, so Lord Of The Rings is out. Am I cool yet?
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Wise's THE HAUNTING is in my world still the greatest horror movie ever. I watched it as an (about) 11 year old as part of some horror marathon on TV. That movie scared the shit out of me, more than any movie before or after. I was not able to sleep for one week straight. Ah, the memories.
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I heard Madonna screaming this one.
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..about the kind of parents that Linda Blair had at that time: (parents are skipping through the script) "Hmmm, she urinates in front of a whole lot of people.... she has to rape herself with a crucifix... vomit on several occasions.... curse like a sailor... Yes this will be the perfect part for our little sweetheart!!"
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The Shining? Nightmare on Elm Street? Suspiria? Friday the 13th? The Thing? I guess some scarier movies are believable -- Silence of the Lambs, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But I never thought believing a movie's premise was realistic was necessary for it to be scary. Or in any way effective, for that matter. Is E.T. stupid because it's unbelievable, too?
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Your c*nting daughter.<p> Jason Miller is fantastic and I'm sorry he's gone. Check out this, Exorcist III, and Ninth Configuration (also a William Peter Blatty film). Miller kills it in all of them.
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It takes intelligence and an indulgent imagination to suspend disbelief...
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Best use of make-up in any movie, ever imo. Use of near subliminal cuts by friedkin that really fuck with your head. Whole subtext about child molestation so well done, that it becomes a completely different film the next time you view it, after realizing it. An atheist and a female as its lead character which just wasn't done. Maybe the best use of sound in the history of film. Sorry, know I'm rambling, but the thing is just so fucking awesome.
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Was very, very strong. Hospital long shot is as good as it gets. Scary shit.
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I presume you mean the guy she threw from the window?? Burke or whatever his name was. I didn't notice that creepy subtext until about the third time I watched it and even then wasn't quite sure if I'd just misinterpreted the situation.
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It was Burke. And too many people have noticed the subtext on there own for it not to be there. I don't think you misinterpreted it at all.
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are you talking about the "long shot" of the hallway when the "killer" pops out, covered in a sheet, and does the nurse with shears? Yep.
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Yeah, Regan speaks in Burke's voice while possessed. Like when she (he) says "Do you know what she did, your c*nting daughter?" referring to Burke's murder. Also, the number of voices is confirmed when Karras reports them to Father Merrin. He says there are three of them.<p> To which Merrin responds, "There is only one."<p> Priceless.<p> For anybody interested, over at cemeterydance.com they have released a special edition hardback of Exorcist bound with its sequel, Legion, in one book, signed by Blatty. Dig it.
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The horror only really works if you're a religious nut. To everyone else, it's just really, REALLY funny. "YOUR MOTHER SUCKS C**** IN HELL!!!" Hahahaha! AWESOME!
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Your beliefs has nothing to do with whether or not this movie is scary. It's like saying only people who believe in aliens will find The Thing scary.
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If you don't believe in the devil, then why be scared when the devil shows up? The aliens in the The Thing are scary because they are grotesque warpings of flesh and because of the paranoia they inspire. It's like a kind of virus. Virus' exist. Deformities exist. Paranoia exists. Scary. Devil doesn't exist. Not scary. Funny, though!
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LaserPants, and Gabba don't like The Exorcist. They say it has something to do with what they do not believe. That isn't exactly true since Laser tries to make the case (and fails at it) for The Thing having to do with Paranoia and that's why he finds it scary. Stop flirting with saying what you want to say. You don't like The Exorcist because you don't like watching films that deal with Christian themes and religion in general. Just fucking say it lol
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Father Merrin makes that clear so whether you believe in the devil or not means nothing. Also, the aliens in The Thing are not a virus. You say they are like a virus so they are scary. You contradicted yourself.
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I don't believe in Bigfoot, but I'm pretty sure that if I even ran into one, I'd poop. Hell, I contend I'd be *more* scared than someone who believed in and expected to see a Bigfoot.
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I've seen this movie several times and it's never scared me. It's intense and well made but I don't understand why people find this movie frightening. Now "Poltergeist" that movie still scares the crap out of me.
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I love The Exorcist, I've seen it many many many times, even own it on laserdisc. I have the Japanese edition soundtrack and listen to it! But I love The Shining more for actual watching. I've seen The Shining upwards of 50 times! I think people who think the Exorcist is funny just don't have the imagination to experience it in a "real" way in their minds. Just like people who don't get "Blair Witch". It's all about your ability to lose yourself in the situation. As if they wouldn't be scared of that shit in real life: if there sister got super strong, murdering people with her bare hands and forcing their moms' faces into there bloody stabbed crotches and slapping them across the room. It's about all encompassing fate, death, supernatural omniscience, blasphemy, stirring up within real horrors of old age, family responsibility (like taking care of your parents when they get old), depression, etc.
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they are trying DESPERATELY to appear superior to us all and dissecting their arguments with logic is completely destroying their credibility...
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the Devil or God don't exist, so speaking in such absolutes makes you look silly....
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Yes. That was the scene I was referring 2. Great stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH 8ynu0jRvY
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Oct. 20, 2010, 2:05 p.m. CST
Much smarter, constructive and creative people than yourself...
by maverick68
have believed or believe in God. There are many who do terrible things in the name of religion, but at the same time, it is that religious moral code that keep many from taking your belongings and cutting your throat....
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"more constructive, more creative"...
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pink squishy stuff??
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damn the ENTER key. You ever see POLTERGEIST in a movie theater?
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i saw Poltergeist in the theater..i remember a bunch of little kids running out during the corpse popping scene..haha..good times
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Sure, when it came out it was super scary...but it was an absolutely horrible movie. The scene in the van where the guy cuts himself is agonizingly long and virtually pointless...complete with horrible acting and dialogue.
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Oct. 20, 2010, 8:19 p.m. CST
Most Terrifying film I have ever seen,.. and I'm an atheist
by Nomoredirtyanything
Took me a long time to finally watch this film. <p> I finally saw it at the cinema in a re-release. Breathtaking. An absolute masterpiece.
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The same guy that is in the drivers seat from the Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day for Night of the Living Dead posted just a couple of days ago???
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