Yep. He comes down the staircase, leaning against the tank and leaving a trail of goo… :eek:
I tried doing an online search, but well…
:eek: Holy crap! :eek: Evidently I haven’t seen the uncensored movie in a very long time, if ever.
Thanks a bunch for posting that. I will definitely rent the DVD soon.
I’m pretty surprised to hear you say this. For my money The Exorcist is still the scariest movie of all time, and the demonic scenes are incredibly well done and not dated at all. Is this “campy” POV a widely held view in anyone else’s experience? I’m feelin’ all old and lame…
Re: The goggles.
First, it’s goggles, not googles.
Second, the SNPP page for that episode does not cite the original Simpsons line (“My eyes … the goggles do nothing!”) as being an allusion to anything else, and they usually don’t miss stuff like that.
Like you, my wife swears that the Exorcist is the scariest movie of all time and she refuses to watch it. I don’t know if it is just me, but it doesn’t have the same impact.
I’m 44, she’s 53.
I’m aware of that. It was a typographical error.
That clip was HILARIOUS! Well, the first half was. The second half was endlessly repeated boring nonsense. More flying furniture, that’s what I say!
People find this drivel scary? Why? I’m completely serious. You’re fighting evil with water chanted over by a priest and I’m not supposed to fall out of my seat laughing? Smearing a child’s face with makeup while another voice swears is supposed to make me wet my pants? How can any of this affect you? Are you reverting to your childhood upbringing? I wasn’t brought up this way, so maybe it’s not hitting any atavistic memories in me. As an adult, though, that was pathetic rather than frightening. It’s like an anti-religion propaganda flick.
Nothing personal, just housekeeping. 
I don’t know, The obvious answer would be religion I suppose. Far less then such a graphic depiction of demonic possession has incited muderous panic is a lot of deeply religious folk through history. But I think that, outside of religious belief, the idea of possession itself creeps people out. The idea of losing control of your body or your mind or both, of being forced to do something you don’t want to do can be very scary. Sure scares me. I know it’s what keeps me from watching the Exorcist the whole way through. Of course, I’m a horror movie wuss, but still.
Cool. Thanks, everyone!
Just a thought- “X- The Man with the X-Ray Eyes”?
I don’t see anything promising in IMDb’s Memorable Quotes.
The Man With Colitis Goes By.
I don’t recall anything like “the goggle—they do nothing” in X-The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
Stephen King, in Danse Macabre, reports a rumor that originally that film ended with:
Ray Milland’s character, having (as the Biblical injunction says) torn out his offending eyes, cries “I Can Still See!”
Roger Corman says it’s not true, although it was discussed:
Could have been Man with the X-Ray Eyes. It would fit when Ray Milland was sitting at the table and Don Rickles was nagging him, but I vaguely remember it (and only vaguely) it from Flareup with Raquel Welch in the early '70s.
Definitely not a reference to Horrors of the Black Museum (1959). In that case, the goggles (well, binoculars) did do something and it wasn’t pleasant
William Peter Blatty, who wrote the novel and wrote and produced the movie, is a devout Catholic. (How Catholic? Seven children.)
I still think it started with The Wizzard of Oz, in a “Play it again, Sam” kind of way.
Hmmm, I suppose for me it’s got something to do with suspension of disbelief. I am not a religious person at all, but I have no problem turning off the skeptical part of my brain and enjoying the movie as intended instead of debunking the religious aspects. If you can’t accept the “unrealistic” premise of demonic possession and need to be rational about what’s happening on screen then I would assume that most “scary” movies make you laugh. “OOOOH these lurching wrecks are supposed to be the “undead”? That’s ridiculous!” “Werewolf? Bah, there’s no such thing!”
For me, The Exorcist is very much like a werewolf flick, except it involves a different kind of mythical transformation. I don’t view it as a religious movie at all, it’s a monster flick that takes itself and its’ audience a little more seriously than most. Not necessarily a good thing and obviously our mileages vary.
Sorry for the hijack everyone, but thanks to all those who answered my question.