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Thursday, October 6, 2011

The Horror! The Horror!: The Exorcist (1973) and Session 9 (2001)


Guided by Scott Weinberg's list of 120 Horror Films now on Netflix Watch Instantly, I decided to hunker down on a rainy, October, Los Angeles day and watch two of them:  William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973) and Brad Anderson's Session 9 (2001), one of Weinberg's favorites.  While I have documented my favorites over at Pajiba (and before that in the pages of the UWM Post), my tastes have changed and evolved.  When I last watched it, ten years ago, I wasn't a huge fan of The Exorcist.  See if my tastes towards a purported classic changed after the jump.  
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Drew Morton is a Candidate of Philosophy in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of California-Los Angeles. He is not yet a Doctor (nor can he read X-Rays, prescribe medicine, or remove problematic appendages) but he has played one on television. His popular and academic writing about media has appeared in the "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel," the "UWM Post," "Senses of Cinema," "Mediascape," "animation: an interdisciplinary journal," "The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh," "Flow," "In Media Res," "The Playlist," and "Pajiba." He is currently struggling through dissertation revisions on the formal interchange between comics and film while navigating the uncertain waters of the academic job market. He can be followed on Twitter @thecinemadoctor.
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