"The Exorcist: Believer" (2023) #newrelease #movies #moviereview

I first watched the original Exorcist film during a 25 year anniversary cinema release in 1998 and after many years of watching a grainy, somewhat banned version on what was termed at the time as a “pirate videotape”. Then, one fine day, a Sunday if my failing memory serves me, I was joined by the first love of my life, and the first of two ladies who have worn that particularly unwanted moniker, in my hometown’s first multi-screen, all singing, all dancing cinema beside the docks of an opulent harbour and after a pre-film meal, we settled into William Friedkin’s unsettling horror for arguably the first time, and I fell in love with a film I still regard as one of my ten favourite films of all time.

From the excavations of Iraq and the portentous building of dread we soon arrive at a minute, maybe a little more, of pure unbelievable cinema, and a young girl doing unspeakable things with a crucifix before burying her mother’s face in the resultant bloody mess and then slapping her so hard she propels her flying across the room before spinning her head completely around and uttering the word beginning with the letter C that has long since been outlawed in polite society, let alone in the cold and grey of 1973.

The above two paragraphs are taken from my Substack blog article originally penned and published on 7th October 2023 and a day after watching "The Exorcist:Believer" on it's opening day here in the UK and can be read in full for free (please also consider subscribing for free too!) via my original article linked immediately below:

https://ramblingmusings666.substack.com/p/the-exorcist-believer-2023

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