The Exorcist
WHAT WENT WRONG
Sad Boom Media
4.8 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
1973's The Exorcist left audiences shocked, nauseous, and scandalized - unfortunately, director William Friedkin had a similar effect on the movie’s cast and crew. This week, Chris & Lizzie tackle the misfires, gunfire, and actual fires that plagued this classic film’s production.
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| 0:00.0 | All right here we go. |
| 0:03.0 | Cut, cut, cut! And actually. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello and welcome to what went wrong, the podcast that explores what went wrong in famous movie productions from massive blockbusters to major movie flops. |
| 0:26.0 | I am Lizzie Bassett as of course you all know. |
| 0:29.2 | And I am Chris Winterbauer as fewer of you know. |
| 0:32.4 | Welcome Chris. What movie are we? Chris Winterbauer as fewer of you know. |
| 0:33.5 | Welcome, Chris. |
| 0:34.4 | What movie are we talking about today? |
| 0:36.9 | Today we are talking about the wonderfully twisted childhood ruining movie, |
| 0:42.4 | The Exorcist, which I saw when I was way too young. |
| 0:46.8 | I did too, and my experience watching this as a little kid was that I thought it was really |
| 0:50.6 | dumb and not scary at all, and then I watched it again as an adult and I just |
| 0:54.5 | like tears were shooting out of my eyeballs I was so scared. I think it's more upsetting to |
| 0:59.2 | grown-ups than it is to children. For sure, for sure. |
| 1:03.8 | Obviously, this is one of the best horror movies ever made. |
| 1:06.4 | I don't think anybody can argue against that. |
| 1:10.0 | I do want to get one thing out of the way at the top here. |
| 1:13.5 | Yes, there was a convicted murderer in this movie. |
| 1:16.8 | It is the radiographer with the sort of chin strap beard |
| 1:19.6 | and bad Caesar haircut, a la George Clooney and ER when Reagan goes to get the |
| 1:24.9 | arteriogram at the hospital. He's also potentially a serial killer who may or |
| 1:29.4 | may not have been active during the time of the movie. No we're not really going to talk about him because the behind the scenes in this movie is actually |
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