{"id":3895,"date":"2006-02-09T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2006-02-09T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-09T16:24:00","slug":"the-exorcist-directors-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3895","title":{"rendered":"The Exorcist, Director&#8217;s Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7264\/1161\/1600\/exorcist.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7264\/1161\/320\/exorcist.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I watched the Director\u2019s Cut whilst on holiday, the first time I had seen it for many years, and what struck me most in watching it this time was the priestly side \u2013 the way that the Eucharist is celebrated, and the meaning (or lack of meaning) that this had for Fr Kerras, and the way that this fore-shadows what happens to him.<\/p>\n<p>Once past the schlock, an amazing film. Not sure I would go so far as Mark Kermode in claiming it as the best film of all time \u2013 not by some measure \u2013 but it is surely one of the best horror films of all time, despite the copious quantities of pea soup.<\/p>\n<p>Very satisfying. I think I\u2019m going to obtain my own permanent copy, not least so that I can listen to the Director\u2019s Commentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the Director\u2019s Cut whilst on holiday, the first time I had seen it for many years, and what struck me most in watching it this time was the priestly side \u2013 the way that the Eucharist is celebrated, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3895\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-review","category-horror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-10P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}