Need a Quick Answer about the Exorcist. Please

[DawnCt1]

How did the little girl, Reagan get possessed. What was the reason?
Why would you consider it a social horror film?

 

[Tinker'n'Fun]

If I remember she was "sick" like just a virus thing and then it got worse.. I would consider it a social horror film. Hope it helps.

 

[debbiedoo]

Regan played with Ouija board by herself and she named it -- BIG NO NO.

 

[mickeylove2]

I thought she was playing with a Ouija board????

 

[HeyIt'sMe]

Oh that movie is the scariest thing I've ever seen!

Yes, she got possessed because she was playing with a Ouija board. Wasn't the 'person' she talked to Captain Howdy?

 

[DawnCt1]

Oh that movie is the scariest thing I've ever seen!

Yes, she got possessed because she was playing with a Ouija board. Wasn't the 'person' she talked to Captain Howdy?

That's right, she did play with the Quija Board, which is forbidden socially by most churches. It crossed the taboo of childhood purity to behave the way that she did, (as a possessed child). The priest had the dilemma of his mother in the apartment, alone in New York. Do you remember how society valued children at the time? It seems like other movies, such as the Bad Seed, where children were made 'evil' were popular. A good horror movie walks up to the taboo and just steps over the line. Rosemary's Baby was before that movie I think. Another social horror movie.

 

[debbiedoo]

Oh that movie is the scariest thing I've ever seen!

Yes, she got possessed because she was playing with a Ouija board. Wasn't the 'person' she talked to Captain Howdy?

that's the name! I could not think of it

 

[debbiedoo]

I remember the ouija board being in the basement

 

[Robinrs]

I remember standing on line for 2 1/2 hours to see it in 20 degree weather in January of the year it came out...


then I didn't get to sleep on my own until my birthday in MARCH!!!

I remember the mother was an atheist, which I was at the time, and thought I'd get possessed because I was!!! I would lay in bed waiting for my head to rotate!!! UGH!!!

 

[debbiedoo]

the real story actually happened to a boy, I hope this link will help u:

http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/religion/re0137.html

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

If I remember she was "sick" like just a virus thing and then it got worse.. I would consider it a social horror film. Hope it helps.

NO! She was playing with the Ouija board and Captain Howdy used to speak to her through it. Then he spoke to her without the board. By the way if you watch the movie, watch it with the director's cut. It really gives you lots of the background of what is supposed to be a true case.

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

Regan played with Ouija board by herself and she named it -- BIG NO NO.

Just curious did naming it cause the possession or is b/c she accepted it by naming it.

 

[Chloe'sMom]

Do you only want to know about the movie or that actual events that inspired it? Cause they are pretty different.

 

[DawnCt1]

I remember standing on line for 2 1/2 hours to see it in 20 degree weather in January of the year it came out...


then I didn't get to sleep on my own until my birthday in MARCH!!!

I remember the mother was an atheist, which I was at the time, and thought I'd get possessed because I was!!! I would lay in bed waiting for my head to rotate!!! UGH!!!

Ooh, I forgot that part. That's important for a social horror film.

 

[DawnCt1]

Do you only want to know about the movie or that actual events that inspired it? Cause they are pretty different.

Just the movie. Thanks.

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

the real story actually happened to a boy, I hope this link will help u:

http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/religion/re0137.html

I guess my question is ..and I am afraid to ask it after reading this article, why is it only the Catholic Priest could perform the ritual....could it not be performed by any Christian AND how about primitive tribes who believe that some of their members are possesed....while the article is informative I just wonder if it is slanted with the underlying message, Catholic is the only true religion so that is why the Protestant (Lutherin minister)sent the boy to a priest and in the end he was for all intents and purposes saved when he was baptized Catholic.
I am not asking this question to start an argument I am just curious b/c as i said the article seemed very slanted.

 

[yeartolate]

How did the little girl, Reagan get possessed. What was the reason?

I think in 1962 Reagan turned Republican. After that the pea soup and head spinning was only natural.

 

[DISUNC]

Actually Satan was after Father Karras all along, and used Regan to bait him. However by Regan using the Ouija board opened the portal!

At the end of the movie/book Karras finally accepts Satan into himself, thus saving Regan, and jumps out the window to save himself from possesion.

 

[debbiedoo]

Just curious did naming it cause the possession or is b/c she accepted it by naming it.

I am not the expert on those boards, but I am one time I did some research because of a story that I had heard in the family that happened before my time

From my understandings, first of all you should not use a board by yourself. Two ppl and a third that can take notes, sometimes the answers come unclear or in anagram form. And some go back to see how the history of the session went.

When contacting that side of the world, you do no know if it is the same spirit or a different one, bad spirits can lie to make u believe it is the same one. (reference to bad demons, and fallen angels, they know both sides)

By naming the board it made a direct connection with her, kindof like an identity that is was her. When using the board by herself, she allowed the spirit to enter her world. The board gained her trust. By gaining trust telling truths, things you know are true -- then it became an addiction. When their is one person that allows easy entry from the bad world to here.

Hope that makes sense, if not ask away I will try to answer if I can

 

[DISUNC]

I guess my question is ..and I am afraid to ask it after reading this article, why is it only the Catholic Priest could perform the ritual....could it not be performed by any Christian AND how about primitive tribes who believe that some of their members are possesed....while the article is informative I just wonder if it is slanted with the underlying message, Catholic is the only true religion so that is why the Protestant (Lutherin minister)sent the boy to a priest and in the end he was for all intents and purposes saved when he was baptized Catholic.
I am not asking this question to start an argument I am just curious b/c as i said the article seemed very slanted.

Catholics believe in Demonic possesion, Christians dont believe in Demonic possesion.