Reminds me of the time I went to the Glasgow Film Theatre who were doing a screening of The Exorcist. This was back when it was still banned on video and the only other place you could see it was on, erm,
pirate video.
Anyhoo, this was a bit of a big deal; getting to see classic "Scariest Movie Ever" on the big screen, and Mark Kermode also did a bit of a critique after the screening. The Exorcist has got to be one of the scariest movies ever, innit. I mean never mind all them cheap jump-out-your-seat bits they fill all the teen-slasher movies with now, I remember being terrified watching someone
climbing the stairs in The Exorcist. There was nothing frightening on screen, just an awful dread- I remember willing the character on the staircase;
please, for fucksake,
don't go back into that room!
The scariest bit of the film that particular screening though happened early on. You know the bit where they do a spinal tap on the wee girl, well, just at that bit a girl a couple of rows in front of us started freaking out big style, waving her arms about, then collapsing in a shuddering heap. Turned out she had suffered an epileptic fit. Not that anyone in the cinema that day rushed to her aid. We were halfway through The Exorcist and suddenly this burds rolling about, like, well, like she was
possessed . Her whole aisle, and those around it just fucken cleared. Took a while for someone to realise the holy water wasn't needed, but, at the time, it truly put the shits up the whole cinema.
I'm a comedian and poet, so anything that doesn't get a laugh is a poem. B.Hicks.
"Further modulation of the frequency rotation, Triggered waveband activation - near elation"
'Why are you so edgy, kid ?'
) where the surgeon cuts Duffy open with a scalpel.
