Given the time of the year I've been on a mini horror binge. I watched:
TALES OF HALLOWEEN - Anthology Halloween horror movie, "not great, not terrible". Some segments are cool but Trick r' Treat remains for me the undisputed benchmark for Halloween (anthology) movies.
NOSFERATU - Yeah, the 1922 one. Wanted to see for the sake of seeing something so historical. No point in criticizing cinematic tecniques of a century ago, and the silent aspect of it didn't bother me, but the story itself didn't really grab me. Still it was a nice historical check on a "to do list" (well, to see) so to speak.
THE EXORCIST - I decided I wanted to see the TV series so I gave a second spin (the first one was years ago) to the classic 1973 movie. It is a great movie, and it deserves all the accolades it got throughout the years, but I found it weird at times. The opening scene in the desert for example - it is completely gratuitous or it serves to symbolize that Max Von Sydow brought the demon home after having found its statue? since it's never really mentioned again. Also, I might have lost concentration for a bit but I don't remember any valid justification to bring Reagan to the doctor for an evaluation since she yet had to start to display strange behaviour.
Another weird thing was that while Reagan was doing very creepy things, the scene would cut in the middle of it, without showing how and if she calmed down, and the reaction of her mother. Like when she was trying to keep the bed from swirling around and stuff was flying around in the room, they were both screaming aaaaand cut. Well, d'uh? how and when the mess did stop?
Still, great atmospheric movie and it's well worthy of the good fame it has.