I think the only part of the movie that scared the crap out of me was when they were talking to Anthony Hopkins when she comes out of her bedroom with a weird look on her face and the camera zooms in as she starts screaming.
Anyone agree about that?
Startling but not scary.
shareWELL... it is a drama. not horror. but it did give me chills some times. very good film 8 out of 10
sharethe whole movie creeped me out and left me feeling uneasy.
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That scene startled me, but it was not a scary more at all.
shareI saw this movie 20 years ago and it scared the hell out of me. I saw Audrey Roses(or actually Ivy´s I think) face in every house window as I was doing my morning newspaper round.
I just saw it again, and it felt a bit dated, but the final scene still got a bit creepy. I remembered "Back before you were born" with chill. Also as she goes "mummy, mummy" first happy, and then terrified.
My point is - the sad thing about (semi-)horrormovies is that as you get older, you dont have the imagination to make up for some less good directing, therefore the movie cannot help looking dated and less terrifying compared to when you first saw it :)
digtekat - I agree. I remember watching this movie right around the time it came out ... I was about 4. There were some parts which scared the bejeezus out of me. I watched it again when I was about 10 (vcrs had just became more affordable) and it really creeped me out. Now I'm just watching it again at 37 years old .. and it's more of a drama. Not much has creeped me out lol. (But I still do love the movie.)
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I thought the scary parts were when he regressed her, and it showed the car accident, with Audrey Rose trapped in the burning car. I also thought the part where she walked into the fire was scary, and the nun could not open the casement window, due to the snow on the ledge. That scene haunted me.
shareYes there were serveral unnerving parts, the car crash, the burning child, the walking into the fire part, the burning blisters on her hand, and surely people found the ending scary? When she turns into Audrey again and starts burning alive before their eyes, screaming and getting redder and redder with blisters and burning flesh?
That was the haunting bit for me. Sadly I think too many empty-headed people come into this film expecting a horror like The Exorcist and then are disappointed when it turns out it's actually a thought-provoking well-acted drama on religion and Reincarnation. I was pleasantly surprised it wasn't an Exorcist clone (as some people wrongly claim on here) but actually a drama worth seeing if only for the original subject matter, and 3 strong performances (Swift, Mason and Hopkins).