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Don't Want" to See is comical. The spiderwalk scene is a lead balloon within the context of the film and what makes it worse is that Friedkin added CGI blood spewing from Regan's mouth when he put that clunker back in. The faux-subliminal images are inept and cheezy like something out of a straight-to-video horror film from 1996.
The problem with that scene is that it probably never would've worked. They show some stuff of it in the documentary and the stuntperson on wires was just unconvincing. Plus, Reagan chasing her mother with a snake like tongue sticking out? But speeding up the whole thing, the added blood and the sudden fade away is also very distracting. So, it's basically a bad scene and shouldn't be in any version of the movie.
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Glad to see someone's Common Sense was tingling over at Warner Bros.
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I think what we will find out as the year progresses is that the film companies are trying to push off any DVD releases that they can until third and fourth quarter on 2010. Paramount has pushed the release of their new film SHELTER ISLAND from October 2009 to February 2010 and the reason given was the economic conditions such as the present low DVD sales and they do not see any pickup until the summer of 2010 (They did give three other reasons). Evidently, Warners has decided to sit on the Blu-ray Exorcist until the economics are better.
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I think what we will find out as the year progresses is that the film companies are trying to push off any DVD releases that they can until third and fourth quarter on 2010. Paramount has pushed the release of their new film SHELTER ISLAND from October 2009 to February 2010 and the reason given was the economic conditions such as the present low DVD sales and they do not see any pickup until the summer of 2010 (They did give three other reasons). Evidently, Warners has decided to sit on the Blu-ray Exorcist until the economics are better.
Shutter Island ;)
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My bad, how right you are.
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Yeah, I get that, but most people who want this classic are going to buy it no matter what time of year it comes out. Those who would only buy it because it's near Halloween would still buy it at Halloween time, even if it came out six months before or longer. It's hardly a "passing" horror movie that
needs a holiday tie-in to sell.
Apparently older movies on Blu aren't doing that great. So even titles like The Exorcist could use all the help it can get.
I'm just glad the original cut will be included, I wouldn't have bought it otherwise.
And is there any chance every extra from the previous versions are included, even the 'Fear of God' documentary?
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Yeah, I get that, but most people who want this classic are going to buy it no matter what time of year it comes out. Those who would only buy it because it's near Halloween would still buy it at Halloween time, even if it came out six months before or longer. It's hardly a "passing" horror movie that
needs a holiday tie-in to sell.
But the cost of marketing the disc would be doubled, since you'd have a marketing campaign when the disc came out, and another one at Halloween.
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What logo is that? I know Warner has some trouble to use the original logos from time to time, so this doesn't come as a surprise. But I don't know which logo they used originally.
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It's the red, black and white Saul Bass-designed logo, which can vaguely be transcribed as this: \\'. Warner adopted this logo when its parent company changed its name from Kinney to Warner Communications, circa 1972-73.
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Oh yeah, that's right, Warner used that logo around the time. I first saw it on the non-remastered version of The Shining, and it had an eerie effect on me too. Looked good, but Warner dislikes it for some reason, otherwise we would've seen it much more.
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Yeah, the red-band worm logo is definitely a part of the Exorcist experience. It needs to be included.
