Peachy

22 yrs old in Portland OR 🗻🌈🐮🌿🍑🎮📚💖🎶♎️

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You’re moving on to something greater now. Don’t quit five seconds before the miracle.

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Threads in time, Natalie Ciccoricco (because)

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How liberating it is to pursue wholeness instead of perfection

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#mood

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Why do men always have to act like they gotta teach you shit… like?? I don’t know who fuckin asked you but it sure wasn’t me so keep your motivation speeches to yourself

[seulmates]

every interaction with a man is a combination TED Talk, valedictorian speech, personal training session, and getting grounded by your dad 

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The Exorcist (1973); Director: William Friedkin

When I decided to start this blog, the first film that came to mind was 1973’s The Exorcist. Never in my life had I experienced something so surreal and beautiful. My parents never really cared what I watched as a kid, if anything my mom was strict when it came to music. So when I dove into horror movies, I made sure to look what the ones that were considered “the essentials”. I looked up Bravo’s 100 Scariest Movie Moments on YouTube and made a list, excluding entries like Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (while the tunnel scene was terrifying, I needed to get a hold of the more on-the-nose entries). Now that this film is almost 46 years old, I probably don’t need to remind people how great it is. It still looks so crisp to me (I thought it came out way later). It sent people flocking to theaters, ambulance attendants waited at the end of rows in the showrooms. It was phenomenal.

This film made me uncomfortable in so many ways. The scenes with Regan going to the doctor terrified me more than the actual demonic possession scenes. I know medical procedures have changed a lot since the 1970’s, but watching those scenes shocked me. Finding out that a real killer was an extra in those scenes was an even more disturbing though (look up the name Paul Bateson). The flashes of Pazuzu’s face in those scenes, as well as Father Karras’s nightmare and in the McNeil kitchen were haunting. I would have that face flash in my head in the middle of the night as I tried to fall asleep and, lemme tell ya, it didn’t help my insomnia.

I never really heard of Ouija boards until high school and I never really wanted to be near one of them. Maybe it’s me being superstitious, maybe it’s me not wanting to fuck with anything on the other side. I remember some kid brought one to the cafeteria at my college and my fiance and I got the hell outta there. Captain Howdy communicating with Regan through the Ouija board didn’t really scare me, but it peaked my interest in “the other side”.

This film spawned “the exorcism” genre of horror films. All the films that have “The Exorcism of [Insert White Girl’s Name Here]” became prevalent in Netflix’s (pitiful) horror index. I haven’t really watched any of them, and I don’t have anything against them, I just have more films I want to see that are more urgent than these. Regan’s possessed face became the “maze game” jump scare in the early days of YouTube (ahh memories).

In all seriousness, I cannot for the life of me find a single thing I don’t like about this film. From the sweet mother-daughter relationship between Regan and Chris McNeil, to the Jesuit priest Father Karras questioning his faith, it was all so honest. The score was perfect too. Never make me listen to “Tubular Bells”, I’ll change that shit immediately. It unsettles me way too much. Also I had no idea the actor that played Father Karras (Jason Miller) was the father of the actor that played Michael in The Lost Boys (Jason Patric)!! Ah the wonders of Wikipedia… I highly recommend this film to anyone that asks me what horror movie they should watch. You won’t regret it.

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