The first horror movie I watched this Halloween season was the famous Exorcist. The version never seen in theaters!, apparently, with extended material and whatnot.
It is a "Freaky Movie". The soundtrack, which isn't so much 'music' as horrific noise, lends itself to creepy-ness just as well as 'subliminal messages' accomplished with watermarks and flashes of satanic, demonic images. But at it's core, the Exorcist is about a child being grossly abused which makes all but the most psychotic a little uncomfortable.
The movie starts slowly enough. Setting the stage a few thousand miles from where the story actually takes place. However, this somewhat unconventional approach works well, especially when it is in the mystical and dangerous landscape of the middle east. The birth of Judeo-Christian religion as well as Western Society in general.
The movie makes me wonder, idly, if it is because of Horror movies like this that there is such a hatred of anything christian. It's been associated with the squirmy feelings of a horror movie, even if they are (usually) battling the forces of darkness. Watching Silent Hill a few days later just made this thought more prevalent in my mind.
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Especially since the Exorcist doesn't actually have the warriors of God win, really. Not through their faith. Despite all of its christian symbolism, it doesn't make a stance that Christianity is the true religion opposed to such dastardly things. The priest has to go to the point of killing himself; taking the demon into his own body and then destroying it to rid the girl of her possession.
A reappearance of Christian themes, but the demon won.
I suppose there aren't a lot of Horror movies with happy endings...
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