The Exorcist: Believer And What's Making Us Happy

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🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The Exorcist came out 50 years ago, and it's still widely considered one of the greatest horror movies of all time. Now, The Exorcist: Believer serves as both a reboot and a sequel. Directed by David Gordon Green, the film stars a mostly new cast, including Leslie Odom, Jr., Lidya Jewett and Olivia O'Neill, but also brings back Ellen Burstyn, who reprises her iconic role from the original film.

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0:00.0	The Exorcist came out 50 years ago and it's still widely considered one of the greatest horror movies of all time.
0:11.0	Now The Exorcist Believer serves as both a reboot and a sequel. It's got a mostly
0:16.2	new cast of characters, but it also brings back Ellen Burston to return to her iconic
0:21.0	role from the original film. But how does the new ones stack up?
0:24.7	I'm Stephen Thompson.
0:25.7	Today we are talking about The Exorcist Believer on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.
0:31.8	Joining me today is NPR producer Mark Rivers.
0:34.1	Hey Mark,
0:34.5	Hey Stephen, great to be back.
0:35.5	Also with us, Jordan Cruciola, she's a writer and producer and the host of the
0:39.0	podcast Feeling Scene on maximum fun.
0:41.3	Hey Jordan.
0:41.9	Hello, happy October, happy to be back with you.
0:44.6	Happy to have you also rounding out the panel switched on pop producer
0:48.8	Rihanna Cruz. Hi Rihanna. Hey. It's great to have you all here. So the Exorcist believer takes place 50 years after the events of the original film in which a young girl is possessed by demonic forces. This time around two girls are possessed after they take a walk into the woods.
1:04.7	Angela, played by Lydia Jewett, is the daughter of a widowed single father named Victor, played by Leslie
1:09.7	Odom Jr.
1:10.7	Angela and her friend Catherine, played by Olivia O'Neil, disappear for three days, only to be found
1:15.2	with no memory of their experience. As you might suspect, they soon exhibit telltale signs of possession.
1:21.2	The body in the blood. The body in the blood.
1:23.6	The body in the blood.
1:25.1	The body in the blood.
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