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Why did they hype up this movie as being the scariest ever?


I was actually nervous of seeing this for a long while, based on what the Americans were saying.

But to be honest, when I finally saw it, aside from several creepy scenes, I found nothing particularly jarring about it.

I'm thinking it's the religious aspect of the movie, of worshipping an evil entity, that's what is driving the American press to say it's terrifying. But then again, I've seen worse in terms of movies like this. But the American Christians must be terrified of this movie.

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Not really.

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People are stupid. If they hear/read something enough times, they assume it's true.

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Hollywood and the critics have to have something to promote..Hereditary was good enough mostly because of the main character transforming into a hysterical wildebeest. That was pretty terrifying to me as my mom, at times, was somewhat similar.

So yeah they promoted the movie as Exorcist worth, probably netted them an extra 10 or 20 million that's the only reason they said it was "scariest ever".

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