The Exorcist (1973)
Country: US
Technical: col 122m
Director: William Friedkin
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max Von Sydow, Jason Miller, Linda Blair
Synopsis:
The daughter of a famous actress begins to exhibit alarmingly violent and abusive behaviour; when the medical and psychiatric communities draw a blank she goes to the Roman Catholic church for help in exorcising the demon.
Review:
What astounds most about the film on reviewings is the slow, almost detached way in which it documents the case history, compared with more adrenalin-raising treatments since. Sensational it certainly seemed at the time, but the foul language and blasphemies now come over like a child doing its utmost to shock but having nothing to say. Perhaps that is because we have become an even more secular society than in 1973. Besides that, and Von Sydow's make-up, this is an effective drama which avoids hysteria.
Country: US
Technical: col 122m
Director: William Friedkin
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max Von Sydow, Jason Miller, Linda Blair
Synopsis:
The daughter of a famous actress begins to exhibit alarmingly violent and abusive behaviour; when the medical and psychiatric communities draw a blank she goes to the Roman Catholic church for help in exorcising the demon.
Review:
What astounds most about the film on reviewings is the slow, almost detached way in which it documents the case history, compared with more adrenalin-raising treatments since. Sensational it certainly seemed at the time, but the foul language and blasphemies now come over like a child doing its utmost to shock but having nothing to say. Perhaps that is because we have become an even more secular society than in 1973. Besides that, and Von Sydow's make-up, this is an effective drama which avoids hysteria.
Country: US
Technical: col 122m
Director: William Friedkin
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max Von Sydow, Jason Miller, Linda Blair
Synopsis:
The daughter of a famous actress begins to exhibit alarmingly violent and abusive behaviour; when the medical and psychiatric communities draw a blank she goes to the Roman Catholic church for help in exorcising the demon.
Review:
What astounds most about the film on reviewings is the slow, almost detached way in which it documents the case history, compared with more adrenalin-raising treatments since. Sensational it certainly seemed at the time, but the foul language and blasphemies now come over like a child doing its utmost to shock but having nothing to say. Perhaps that is because we have become an even more secular society than in 1973. Besides that, and Von Sydow's make-up, this is an effective drama which avoids hysteria.