Volume 3, Number 3

[james_morrow]

THE MANICHEAN EXORCIST

As part of our annual Halloween film festival, my wife and I screened the recently released Blu-Ray transfer of William Friedkin’s The Exorcist. I hadn’t see the thing since its premiere, and I’d forgotten what a nightmare it is-not in the Gothic sense, but in the sense that the movie seems engineered to give bad dreams to

Comments

[poliphilo]

The Exorcist only works if you buy into its theology. When I finally got round to seeing it I found it turgid and ridiculous.

Witchfinder Journal

[anonymous]

James I thought of you recently when reading that the diary of Matthew Hopkins was made public.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1324522/400-year-old-diary-Witchfinder-General-trials-opened-public-time.html

[anonymous]

As a child of fire and brimstone ministers (father and mother both) who was taught to FEAR HELL more than to love god this movie terrified me when I was a child. Of course after I took a few science classes above the elementary school level I saw it was all nonsense. The movie is kind of scary now for completely different reasons, lack of reason being one of them.

Also, I find it difficult to think about anything new concerning Thomas because I'm still very very confused as to how he got confirmed for the Supreme Court in the first place.

[ext_301006]

Well, it was a narrow thing: 52-49.

Can't wait to make a contribution

[anonymous]

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