#given that the wounds didn't magically disappear once the devil was out

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Watched The Exorcist (1973) for the first time the other day and the demon part is scary but I was not expecting so much medical scenes.

I also understand that the 70s were Like That (and for many people things unfortunately still are), but what is this of making medical tests on a teenager while her mother is in the waiting room? And then, the mother hasn't been there, we the audience haven't been there either, and the doctor says "your daughter has used bad language" and the mother "that's impossible, she doesn't do that" but what is she going to do? She will trust the doctor, the expert, her daughter's character is changing so there must be something (not adolescence) going on. Long story short, your 12 year old, who is starting puberty, needs to take Ritalin.

This was harder for me than the actual possession. It then turned out that there was something terribly wrong with the daughter, but the way they presented this information was aaragadafsdfasdhjgla.

Also, they say the girl doesn't remember anything of the possession, so from her point of view she goes from undergoing a lot of medical procedures and being high as a kite over nothing to having scars all over her body (and very likely genital problems for the rest of her life, there is a whole thing going on down there that is never adressed). There is a whole different movie here of the daughter trying to find out which medical doctor actually disgraced her like this and why did my mother never sue them? Was my mother the one who did all this? "It was an evil possession". Right, so my mother is crazy and I paid for it with my health.

So yeah... it's a medical/psychiatric horror movie as much as it is a supernatural one.