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In Reply to: What is your scariest movie of all time? posted by millen on September 28, 2004 at 12:26:03:
This had to be the equivalent of the Exorcist during its day. With the shock of naked lady's posteriors, hags munching on rotted limbs pulled from a cauldron, and the deft (for its time) use of double exposure and superimposition of witches flying upon brooms--it had to be a leader of special effects and makeup for years to come.Available on Criterion, I watched the 1968 version which has the "jazz" soundtrack rather than the dead silent original.
Oddly, one of the first demons statues shown was the one from the Exorcist. Old ideas die hard.
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I agree it is the same one that they used on the Exorcist's demon statues.
The statue they used in the Exorcist was the Sumarian/Babylonian demon Pazuzu, son of Hanbi and king of the demons of wind and bringer of plagues (one hand is up and the other down, symbolizing life and death, creation and destruction). He was also the patron saint of pregnant women because he was the enemy of Lamashtu, another demon who caused still-births, infant death, death in childbirth or kidnapping infants, and therefore appeared on amulets as a protection from Lamashtu.
Decent image here
http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/003889.html
and an actual amulet here:
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