Highlights
- Thirty seven years after it was released, horror movie The Exorcist has been voted as "most disturbing" film of all time.
- The 1973 film directed by William Friedkin, adapted from the 1971 novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty is based on the exorcism case of Robbie Mannheim and is the tale of the demonic possession of a child, which featured Linda Blair as the kid spewing green slime.
- The film beat down competition from teenage gang movie A Clockwork Orange to grab the top spot in a poll conducted by rental service Lovefilm, The Sun reported online.
London:
Thirty seven years after it was released, horror movie
The Exorcist has been voted as "most disturbing" film of all time.
The 1973 film directed by William Friedkin, adapted from the 1971 novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty is based on the exorcism case of Robbie Mannheim and is the tale of the demonic possession of a child, which featured Linda Blair as the kid spewing green slime.
The film beat down competition from teenage gang movie
A Clockwork Orange to grab the top spot in a poll conducted by rental service Lovefilm, The Sun reported online.
The third spot was taken by 2004 film
Saw, followed by horror classic
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and
Requiem For A Dream on the fourth and fifth spot respectively Monica Bellucci starrer
Irreversible grabbed the sixth spot while
Se7en and
Event Horizon landed on the seventh and eighth spot respectively.
Shot in documentary style,
The Blair Witch Project and 2009 film
Antichrist rounded the list of top ten disturbing films of all time.