"The eagerly-anticipated adaption of the cult graphic novel finally reaches the big screen."



Either this is a really strange joke or someone got a bit lazy with the cut and paste...

This is the kind of movie that has me despairing about Hollywood. I would never willingly subject myself to a film like this. I would have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the cinema, and my eye balls would then have to be clamped open, very much like Alex in A Clockwork Orange. Yes, it looks THAT dreadful! (Maybe I am being a little bit over the top - but only a little bit!)

Dr Kermode,

I'm an avid follower or your blog and respect your opinions immensely, but theres a slight problem.

I can't stand horror films. Quite frankly the reason is because i don't enjoy being frightened.For example The last horror-themed film i attemtped to watch was House of Wax (the version with Paris Hilton)and obviously it was trash, but regardless i was still scared stiff - whilst my friends were chuckling away at Paris Hilton with a pole jammed into her forehead.



Is there any advice on how to overcome my low tolerence to horror? (As I'm intruiged to watch The Exorcist due to your raves about it).

Chess-18. I know Dr K. loves The Excorcist, but if you dislike horror then your not likely to find anything to like in it.



Dr K. is both



a) a horror aficionado, and



b) a deep believer that The Excorcist is something more than a mediocre horror movie.



Trust me if you do not like horror (though I would say that watching House of Wax is no way to confirm this), the don't bother with The Exorcist.

How about someone explaining to us why this "content" is only available to UK viewers? Stop that. There is no good reason not to show it to everybody

Dr K although I normally agree with your reviews I have to find myself questioning your judgement after saying you preferred the hammy Silent Running to 2001 A Space Odyssey

lylefox is wrong. while i can't say i was scared while watching the exorcist, when it was done and i was putting away the dvd i had a little shudder about the nastiness of what i'd just seen. as for those who say that the special effects are crap and dated, i still have no idea how they did the spider-walk scene.

oh my bad, i mis-read what lylefox said. my points still stand, they're just kind of irrelevent now.

I've already written this in the Ozploitation video comments, but I felt it would be more easily noticed here. This also might have been addressed later in the show, but I'm on a careful internet plan and I'm trying to take it easy with the big mp3 downloads. Anyway, take it or leave it:



So sentimentality porn exists and needs to be dealt with, but torture porn is nothing to get worked up over?

Casting theory: Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson both look like Labradors.

The most depressing film i've seen in years. I am sad at myself for watching this garbage.



It's like film making by numbers.



1) Watch lots of dog and animal movies including Tarka the otter



2) Write down scenes that you think might be funny and that might be emotionally manipulative



3) Make list of scenes



4) Add inane dialog



5) Hire vacuous actors



6) Shoot film



7) Make millions



8) Start again



I'm off to see the Exorcist to be cleansed



Rob

I don't know where to write this Mark



A group of us on line are trying to help a guy who saw a movie years ago and he cannot remeber the titel and wants to see it again.



A guy holds a knife to a woman and slowly says



"Your tears excite me"



You are our last hope :-)

Rob

lol you should have just directed everyone to watch Turner & Hoch instead! (NOT Beethoven! that film scarred me as a child, because even then i was aware of the films terribleness, but still had to watch it!).