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plasticman wrote:When I was a teenager, "The Exorcist".
I still have vivid memories of sleepless nights after seeing that movie when it was first released.
I suppose there have been scarier movies released since it was. However, no other movie since has invaded my memory so dramatically.
Ah, yes... The Exorcist! Funny story--
When I first saw the Exorcist, I must have been about 8 years old. By that time, the movie had been out for a good 9 or 10 years, I think it came out the year before I was born. Anyway, my late, maternal Grandfather really, really, really wanted to see that movie. But, my very religious, and extremely superstitious (but as sweet as pie) late grandmother would NOT allow that movie to be shown in her home. Under any circumstance. Period. She was convinced that even looking at the movie could cause one to be posessed by an evil spirit, or the head honcho of evilness himself. So, one weekend when my older sister and I were visiting, my grandfather set up a TV in their basement, popped popcorn, got candy for us-- the works. My grandmother was going to be busy haveing a meeting with some women from her church...
Without my saying more, surely you can see that this story doesn't end well for my grandfather, right? 
As it should turn out, The Exorcist was going to be playing on some Saturday night movie special. It was a big deal, and maybe the 1st time that it'd been shown on "regular" tv, or something. I remember them talking about it on the news. So, while Grandma was upstairs planning good works, my grandfather, me, and my sister snuck downstairs for evil.
And we would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for the neighbor... He ratted us out. He came to borrow something from my grandfather, so my grandmother directed him to the basement. We didn't even hear him come down. He flicked on a light, and me and my sister stared screaming bloody murder! When he went back upstairs, my grandmother asked what all the screaming was about, and he told her that what we were watching. My grandmother and her church friends went NUTS! I had rarely ever heard my grandmother raise her voice, and certainly not without just cause... apparently, practically handing over your young granddaughters to the Prince of Darkness, and unleashing the power of evil into your humble home qualified as "just cause". I thought that poor man would never hear the end of it. Not to mention, my grandmother was doubly mad, because her friends ran away, refusing to be in the den of evil that we'd created.
Just about every misfortune, for the next several months was blamed upon my grandfather for watching that movie (and we didn't even get to see the end, that time). That very same night, there was a strong storm, and I think my sweet, non-violent grandmother would have gladly taken a cast iron skillet to his head had one been within reach in her hiding spot. Yep, the storm was the fault of that movie too!
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