Title:
Requiem for a Dream
Description:
Ellen Burstyn scored an Oscar nomination for her stunning performance as Sara Goldfarb, a widow whose growing dependence on amphetamines and the boob tube parallels that of her junkie son (Jared Leto), his gal pal (Jennifer Connelly) and his buddy (Marlon Wayans). An unnerving tour through the agonizing nature of addiction, this riveting indie drama also stars Christopher McDonald as the host of an odious self-help show.
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Title:
The Exorcist: The Extended Director’s Cut
Description:
The revised version of this horror classic adds a remastered soundtrack and 10 minutes of footage, including a modified ending. When Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) suspects an evil spirit is possessing her young daughter (Linda Blair), she calls in two priests (Max von Sydow and Jason Miller) to rid of the demon. Writer William Peter Blatty scored an Academy Award for his big-screen adaptation of his own novel.
-Trailer
The Highest Quality In Horror Films - Two “Terror Films”
Title:
Requiem for a Dream
Description:
Ellen Burstyn scored an Oscar nomination for her stunning performance as Sara Goldfarb, a widow whose growing dependence on amphetamines and the boob tube parallels that of her junkie son (Jared Leto), his gal pal (Jennifer Connelly) and his buddy (Marlon Wayans). An unnerving tour through the agonizing nature of addiction, this riveting indie drama also stars Christopher McDonald as the host of an odious self-help show.
-Trailer
Title:
The Exorcist: The Extended Director’s Cut
Description:
The revised version of this horror classic adds a remastered soundtrack and 10 minutes of footage, including a modified ending. When Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) suspects an evil spirit is possessing her young daughter (Linda Blair), she calls in two priests (Max von Sydow and Jason Miller) to rid of the demon. Writer William Peter Blatty scored an Academy Award for his big-screen adaptation of his own novel.
-Trailer
I have no belief in either being scarier at this point. As of now I’m more interested in hearing the beliefs of someone else.
The Exorcist is a comedy. Nothing else.
I disagree, it’s not like some stupid snuff-film where a person performs self-mutilation or give others consent for mutilation, it uses vibes to appeal to your senses. RfaD was more sophisticated in presenting the material on-screen. For one there was the Kronos Quartet creating sounds that, when combined with the graphic cinematography could create certain emotional reactions through the use of sounds or noises that affect the five senses. The Exorcist did the same. Sudden snap-shots of Mr. Howdy for example.
Maybe should be in Cafe Society instead?
wow…this must be the most ridiculous thread topic I have ever seen…
Moved from IMHO to Cafe Society.
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o gotta agree with Khaki upthread… when i saw the exorcist for the first time when they re-released the extended cut in theatres… i laughed my ass off for most of the movie. Maybe its only scary if your religious?
Tha’t actually a better question than the OP. I was terrified of the Excorcist when I saw it as a young teen but then I was raised Catholic and went to a Catholic grade school.
I gave up on religion when I was 16/17 and any mental supersticious fears tied to it. Later seeing the Excorcist in my early 20s it did nothing for me and didn’t frighten me a bit. I thought it was just because I was older and the film had aged poorly. But then again it could have been my lack of mental religious ties.
I disagree. I havent seen the alleged redux version but I remember seeing the original when I was 8 years old. Correction, I saw the prologue of the movie. The part that is set in Iraq. And more than 25 years later, that beginning still creeps me out. As opposed to the rest of the movie which manages to trap all the ridiculousness of Catholicism in one bag, the prologue has an atmosphere of pre-Christianism pure evil. Rarely I have experienced in a movie such a feeling of pure mystical Evil. The rest of the movie can go to the trash bin.
As for putting Requiem for a dream on the other corner of the ring, this does sound like drug abuse is not restricted to the protagonists of the movie but is also open to some of its viewers. The only point of comparison is that they both feature Ellen Burstyn…
A unoriginal but way more to the point comparison would have been between the Exorcist and The Omen (which had a very good hellhounds attack in a cemetery that could compare -not hold to- to the prologue of the Exorcist).
I think *The Exorcist *is a good horror movie. shrug
I’ve never seen Requiem, so no comment there except that it sounds kind of interesting.
Five words: double anal dildo lesbian scene. That’s all I remember about Requiem.
The Exorcist never created the slightest fear in me, even when I was a kid. I can’t take devils seriously. I watched it for the shock scenes and MST3000’ed it with my brothers, but we weren’t remotely scared.