Special Report: David Kittredge on Boorman and the Devil (2025)

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Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Filmmaker and frequent Projection Booth co-host David Kittredge returns to the show to talk about his stunning new documentary Boorman and the Devil (2025). Premiering at the Venice Film Festival and recently screened at the Brooklyn Horror Film Fest, the film examines the making—and unmaking—of John Boorman’s unfinished masterpiece The Heretic, a project that became both a creative obsession and a cautionary tale.

Mike and David trace the film’s journey from inception to restoration, exploring the documentary’s mix of melancholy reflection and deep admiration for Boorman’s uncompromising artistry. As one critic called it, Boorman and the Devil is “melancholy, thoughtful, and highly perceptive”—a love letter to pure cinematic vision and the madness that sometimes comes with it.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.1	Shut it off.
0:25.4	Turn it off.
0:27.6	In 19th. In 1974, a motion picture shocked the world.
0:47.3	It has become one of the most acclaimed and successful films in history.
0:52.1	The Exorcist is a classic in its own time. And now, Warner Brothers takes you a step beyond.
1:03.0	Exorcist 2, The Heretic.
1:08.0	Starring Linda Blair,
1:15.5	Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher,
1:21.4	Max von Seedal, James Earl Jones,
1:27.0	their minds locked together
1:29.0	with the most terrifying vision of all.
1:41.3	Exorcist 2.
1:43.8	The heretic.
1:48.6	Hey folks, welcome to a very special episode of the projection booth.
1:52.0	I'm your host, Mike White.
1:53.3	On this episode, I am talking with David Kittridge, who has been a co-host on this show many, many times.
2:00.0	Ever since the very first time he was on the show, he was talking about a documentary he was
2:04.0	working on, which at the time was called Heretics.
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