The Cultural Impact of ‘The Exorcist’ - The Film Stage

I am not much of a movie person and definitely not a horror flick type.  Hell I had nightmares for 6 weeks after Jaws, I can just imagine what my bipolar brain would have done with this back in the day.  But an interesting mini-doc for those so inclined.

To take us back over 40 years ago to examine the craze surrounding the film we have a 20-minute documentary from a Westwood, California broadcast. Featuring interviews with theater employees and audience members, they discuss the dozen or so spells of fainting and throwing up during every showing at the theater. Some of the best interviews are with cinemagoers who have left mid-screening and can’t compose themselves; if only more studio films were daring enough to have that raw power today.

The Cultural Impact of ‘The Exorcist’ - The Film Stage