SMNTY Classics: What Possession Movie Tropes Say About Us

Stuff Mom Never Told You

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🗓️ 27 September 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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A lot of movies about possession have been in the news lately, from The Exorcist to Talk To Me. But who gets possessed and why? Are these movies inherently conservative? Learn more in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:09.4	Hey, this is Annie.
0:10.5	And Samantha.
0:11.2	And welcome to Stuffin' Ever Told You, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:24.4	Now here is a classic.
0:29.1	We have to revisit Samantha because you were not with me.
0:30.0	You had COVID.
0:33.0	And I recorded this by myself.
0:35.7	And I think you would have a lot of thoughts about it.
0:54.8	It is about what possession movie tropes say about us. Oh. Yeah. Who gets possessed? Why do they get possessed? Yeah. All of those things. And this was a Monday mini. So I think there's a lot of room to. Okay. You know what? We're putting it in here.
0:56.3	It's going to be in our October episodes.
0:57.3	We're going to do this one.
0:58.0	Yeah.
1:00.3	I think there's a lot to say.
1:01.2	I have thoughts.
1:02.3	Excellent.
1:05.9	Well, until then, listeners, please enjoy this classic episode. Hey, this is Annie. And welcome to Steph One Never Told You, production of IHard Radio.
1:14.9	Yes, I'm still by myself.
1:26.6	Samantha is down for the count with COVID right now.
1:32.9	We've got a lot of travel coming up, so trying to get ahead.
1:37.4	And I will say for this episode, I am largely quoting one article from Tor.com called From The Exorcist to Talk to Me,
1:49.2	Possession Films Teach Us to Fear the Wrong Things by J.R. Ferastaros, I hope I got that somewhat
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