

Captain Howdy’s face was never actually meant to be perceptible to the audience, which made the original release much scarier. Multiple times throughout the film, a white demonic face appears on the screen for about an eighth of a second each time. The most well-known and noticeable is the pale face of Captain Howdy, a demon that Regan keeps seeing and conversing with.
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This movie is still regarded as so scary partially due to the subliminal messages included in the film. This of course turns out to be the case, and the movie gets more and more disturbing. Eventually, someone suggests the impossible: possession. As the movie progresses, her behavior becomes more aggressive and troubling. Her behavior becomes so disturbing and offensive that her mother takes her to multiple doctors and psychiatrists, but they find nothing wrong. The twelve-year-old girl, Regan, suddenly begins to act out for reasons that are unclear at first.

The Exorcist focuses on a young girl and who lives with her mother after her parents’ divorce. As the Halloween season is approaching, it is interesting to look back at this (in)famous classic. The film is notorious for the fear it incited, but also for its subliminal messages that stick in a viewer’s consciousness. Although released on December 26, 1973, The Exorcist is still often referred to as one of the scariest movies of all time.
