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The Treatment

The Treat: The Mortician director Joshua Rofé

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6656 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Director Joshua Rofé’s unforgettable HBO documentary series The Mortician, about an unethical family-run funeral home, left its mark on audiences. For his treat, Rofé pays tribute to the underrated 1977 William Friedkin film, Sorcerer. Rofé recalls his first time watching it in a theater and breaks down why it’s possibly the best thriller of all time.

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0:00.0

Director Joshua Raffey has shown incredible skill with his documentary work, such as the HBO

0:05.3

docuseries on outcasts and crime, The Mortician.

0:09.6

I'm Elvis Mitchell. It's The Treat.

0:12.1

And his treat is a William Freak and reimagining of a classic that became a classic itself.

0:19.1

I'm Joshua Rofé, and this is The Treat.

0:28.9

A film that I find unbelievably inspiring is William Friedkin's Sorcerer.

0:35.8

I think the only way to see it for the first time is on the big screen,

0:39.5

and I feel like it might be the greatest thriller of all time.

0:51.6

I have never been on the edge of my seat to the degree that I was when I saw that film for the first time,

0:59.1

which thankfully was on the big screen, and saw it, blown away, considered it without question a masterpiece.

1:07.7

It's covered, okay?

1:08.5

That's okay. Where am I going?

1:10.0

Get a train down in Baltimore. Go to Pier 47. And at covered, okay? Yeah, it's okay. Where am I going? Could have trained down in Baltimore, but appear 47. And at customs, that's for Nat Glick. And don't mention my name. Because of right now, I don't know you, and I don't want to know you. I owed you a favor. This is it. You gonna tell me where I'm going? I swear to Christ. The deck is

1:29.6

stacked against every person on every level, including existentially. I think that is, I just think

1:36.4

that's so interesting. You know these guys are doomed, even though you think, oh, maybe somebody's

1:41.8

going to get away with something. maybe somebody's going to get rich.

1:45.0

But you just, you know, these are tragic figures.

1:49.0

We're carrying three cases each.

1:51.0

One is enough to blow your fire. Six cases will blow out the whole field.

1:56.0

That means you don't think all the trucks will make it.

1:58.0

One of us is a backup.

2:00.0

We won double illegal residence,

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