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#25, still one of the scariest things I have ever seen. Besides my credit card bill.

The Exorcist - 1973

I saw this when I was a kid, mainly because the reason we all watch scary movies: someone said it freaked them out and that we, the kid, were not allowed to watch it until we were older. My mom was really strict about that. But I had an ongoing obsession with waking up late at night, creeping downstairs, and watching some blood-curdling movies. Most I would smile and laugh at and go back to bed happy that I thought I had tricked my parents and done something, at that point in my life, illegal in my house. Little did I know how parents really work. They know everything. Everything. But I digress…

After watching this, I went to bed and could not sleep. I was terrified. I was lividly upset. Years later, when the director’s cut came out, I jumped all over it, and was so happy that it was still just as scary. Seeing the girl walk down the stairs on her hands and feet, in reverse body-like crab fashion still makes my skin crawl. And my old co-worker can’t look at that scary devil face without pissing himself.

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