Episode 31. The Power of Christ Compels You: The Exorcist (1973)

Faculty of Horror

Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West

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🗓️ 28 October 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Keep a crucifix close and put some pea soup on the stove because Alex and Andrea are confronting their demons to talk about The Exorcist and why the scariest things are sometimes the most personal. REQUIRED READING The Exorcist. Dir William Friedkin, 1973. EXTRA CREDIT The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty. The 1949 Washington […]

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0:00.0	The Oh, Hey, this is El Gore from the Talk Without Rhythm Podcast, and you are listening to the Faculty of
0:47.0	Orr. Good choice.
0:52.0	Hi, everyone. Good choice.
0:57.1	Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Faculty of Horror Podcasting from the Harrod Halls of Academia and happy Halloween everyone. It is
1:02.3	October. It is getting crisper and crisper here in Toronto.
1:06.0	The dollar stores are filled with amazing items that I always want to buy.
1:10.0	And we are back with our very, very special Halloween episode on The Exorcist.
1:17.0	What? Andrea? What? What? You were just saying something? No, I wasn't. Okay. You good? Yeah, yeah.
1:27.6	So welcome to our episode. We are so excited to talk about The Exorcist. What a huge film. What a tremendous film. This film actually
1:36.0	defies a lot of what we've said about the horror genre up till now as we'll talk about how
1:41.1	you know Hollywood likes to take a safe bet, but this movie was anything but a safe bet
1:47.1	in spite of the fact that it's an Academy Award winning filmmaker, William Friedkin,
1:51.2	who won an Academy Award for his previous work, The French Connection. filmmaker William
1:54.3	Wiedkine who won an Academy Award for his previous work, the French Connection,
1:54.8	William Peter Bladty, this was a best-selling novel.
1:58.0	So on the one hand it was kind of a sure thing, but when you look at the film
2:01.9	and you look at the risks it took and the rules it
2:04.8	broke it's really tremendous and the film in my opinion stands on its own there's
2:10.1	been nothing like it ever since. Absolutely not.
2:12.8	And it's still such a cultural touchstone.
2:16.2	Actually a few weeks ago, I went to see the new Johnny debt
2:19.3	movie, Black Mass, about Whitey Bulger and the kind of whole Boston Crime Syndicate.
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