Incidentally, after discovering this website, FILM AS ART, I’d had the urge to revisit EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING.
What a travesty, inane, and brutal. Even THE HERETIC I’d watch and never feel I was going through with a prison or death sentence. I really once thought E:TB was bad, but now having been scientifically time-tested, it actually gets WORSE. GOOD NIGHT, it is relentless!!! Boy, what an ordeal.