Dark & Twisty

To be considered one of the scariest movies ever made, the inspiration is awfully bland.  The horror comes subtly, which isn't bad if it is scary.  I am afraid that most of the horror on the book relies on vomit, diarreah, and foul smells.  I work on a psychiatric unit.  It takes more than those three to scare me.  People talking in strange voices and real or imagined tongues is't scary either.  I truly believe that this book is a product of its time.  I don't think that this story is nearly as scary because horror has gotten much more horrific.  There are many reasons why.  Stephen King may be one reason.  (Mike Arnzen might be another.  Big shout out to you Dr. Arnzen ) Anyway the books loses it's scare factor.  This book is called the Exorcist, which is the person performing the act of exorcism.  I think by the title the priest is the main character, but he doesn't do it for me.  It think in the early 1970's this book was horrible to people.  I think that until about 1980 it should have scared people, but with the invention of DSM-III and the demise of multiple personality disorder as a realistic psychiatric possiblity this book loses it's oompf.  (By the by, a future entry on this blog is going to look at the exorcist as a book of archiac psychiatric treatment and diagnosis.  Yea!!)