Exorcist 3

George C. Scott and Ed Flanders are great in it! That's Viveca Lindfors crawling on the ceiling. And the creature in the hospital never ceases to scare the hell out of me.

I saw it when it first came out and was profoundly unimpressed, so it surprises me how highly regarded it is now. But then I thought the first "Exorcist" was really good and scary, and now people mostly just sneer at it.

Funny. I found the original "The Exorcist" silly as hell when I first saw it at the Paris Theatre. I thought the book was much better.

Now, I appreciate the film much, much more. Those actors, that screenplay. The William Friedkin direction! It's worth another look.

I was 8 years old. It traumatized me. Especially the scene you mention, OP. Also the part where the nurse gets her head chopped off. Anything with the word "Gemini" would freak me out for years. My mom tried to accuse my dad of child abuse for letting me watch it (they were divorced). He retaliated by not letting me watch any scary movies or stay up past 9 pm for many years after that.

It was the first horror movie I saw to have CGI of a ghost/demon skittering along the ceiling, so that was pretty shocking, although it's been done to death since--and the famously scary scene with the ghost with the giant scissors following behind the nurse in the hallway was also very scary. The direction was far superior to the story (which was pretty cheesy and did not have much to do with the previous two Exorcist movies).

R23 that is/was NOT a movie that a little 8 year old had any business watching! What was your dad thinking? Or maybe he wasn’t thinking.

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