Halloween Horror

On Halloween Night a group of friends joined me for a night of trick-or-treating, haunted houses, food, and fun. We ended the night with a horror movie marathon, enjoying the old classics that terrifyed so many.

We started off the night with the cult classic The Excorsist, winner of two academy awards and four golden globe awards. It is widely renowned as one of the scariest films of all times.

The film involved frigtening imagery, from the flashes of demonic faces, to the supernatural occurences, to the obsene body horror.

The story revolves around a twelve-year-old girl getting possessed by not one demon, but three, shortly after playing with a Ouija board, a pre-teen girl, Regan, begins acting strangely including making mysterious noises, using constant bad language and exhibiting abnormal strength, much to the horror of her parents. she also exhibits spasms, which get progressively worse as the movie continues. In response, her mother consults several physicians but despite undergoing a series of diagnostic testsbut the doctors find nothing medically wrong with her. They are recommended to seek out an excorsist, which they do. By the time the excorsist actually arrives, Reagan is fully possesed. Ultimately, the excorsism does not go as planned, leaving the demons to relocate into the preist, who proceeds to jump out the bedroom window.

Overall, I enjoyed this movie for the overall mystery element. It displayed a sort of horror that films with serial killers or grotesque CGI cannot. We do not know, for a long time, who or what is really possessing Reagan. We are not aware of their motives or their power, and the suspense of what is to come casts a looming atmosphere of terror. Add in the frightening imagery, and you truly have a horror film for the ages.

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