I saw The Exorcist when I was about 17. It's the only movie that ever scared me.
Funny thing,.... "Night of the Living Dead" was old enough when I was a young teen that it was occasionally being shown on TV.
Years ago there was a theater in Lexington that had midnight movies on Friday and Saturday nights. I guess I was about 21 at the time. One night they showed "Night of the Living Dead" and a big group of us went to see it with our girlfriends. I think it was my idea. I had never seen it on the big screen,....just TV
I had seen it several times and I never considered it particularly scary. I just thought it was fun to watch.
None of the women could stand to sit through it all,...they made their dates take them home.
I wouldn't leave. I stayed for it all and so did my date.
To her credit, she thought it was silly that the other girls were too scared to watch it all.
But The Exorcist was some scary schitt. All of that demonic posession, as it was portrayed in that movie, was something new for movies at the time.
