The Rapture | E6

Inside The Exorcist

Wondery

Tv & Film, Documentary, Film History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Exorcist opens - with no credit for the voice of the demon, Mercedes McCambridge - and she’s furious. Audiences break down the doors to see the movie. Hysteria ensues: Vomiting, fainting, heart attacks, and more. The prominent critics...hated it. Rev. Billy Graham said “the devil is in every frame of that film.” Pressure was building to stiff the movie at awards time, despite its popularity. Linda Blair was shattered. But despite the lack of industry support, William Friedkin was now wildly famous and could do anything. Or could he?

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Inside the Extrasist,
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0:09.6	The following contains mature content.
0:12.0	You've been warned.
0:18.0	From Wondry, I'm Mark Ramsey, and this is Part 6 of Inside.
0:31.0	Tree Making
0:42.9	1907, Summer St publicity, England.
0:46.0	A man by The Fire, finishing a meal in the dark.
0:52.8	He hears something.
0:59.8	He pauses.
1:04.8	He began to run.
1:13.8	What did he see?
1:14.8	It was awful, he said.
1:16.8	It had four legs and it was black.
1:19.8	And it had great fiery eyes as big as saucers.
1:22.8	A stream of spurious vapor issued from its throat.
1:26.8	The ground was scorched around it and smelled strongly of grim stone.
1:36.8	The man came to a river and jumped in for safety.
1:42.8	His eyes rose above the water level and so he watched the beast,
1:47.8	unable to cross the water.
1:51.8	Snorting flame, eyes ablaze.
1:54.8	That's when it rose straight up in the air like a flash of fire.
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