Review #60: The Exorcist (1973)
This review was originally written in October 2019. October Horror Movie Review #8: The Exorcist "But Gabe," I hear you saying. "Haven't you seen the Exorcist? Everyone has seen the Exorcist." Nope. Never saw it. I've seen about five hundred things that reference it (including an episode of Eek! The Cat that continually made "pea soup" references, which I did not understand for many years) but I've never actually seen this one. It's one of the many "classic horror" films I haven't seen, so I'm glad I was able to finally cross this one off the list. Now, I have mixed feelings about this movie. I can understand why it was so popular (after all, there were only like two mainstream horror movies at the time, of course this one was going to make a big impression) but I'm still at a loss as to whether or not I liked it. It was an incredibly slow burn (despite being called The Exorcist the topic of exorcism doesn't even c...