William Friedkin & The Exorcist
The Cine-Files
Steve Morris & John Rocha
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2023
⏱️ 147 minutes
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John and Steve continue their tribute to the great William Friedkin with a return to one of the most terrifying movies of all time, The Exorcist.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, cinephiles fans. Welcome back to another episode that we're dropping this week in |
| 0:13.6 | honor of the passing of William Freak and I am the outlaw John Rogan joined as always |
| 0:18.0 | by my co-host Steve Morris. I'm once again scared. Every time I think about this movie, John, |
| 0:23.3 | I get scared. I know it is really interesting. We mentioned on our intro to the French connection |
| 0:28.3 | that there is a new installment in the Exorcist franchise coming out later this year. I saw and did |
| 0:35.5 | a trailer reaction for it on my channel. It is chilling and it's 50 years later and Ellen Burston |
| 0:41.7 | is coming back to reprise her role from the first Exorcist film that we are obviously going to |
| 0:48.1 | be doing on this episode or did on this episode and reintroducing now and William Freakon just doing |
| 0:54.7 | a wonderful job directing that movie and turning the horror genre into something that could be |
| 0:59.8 | looked at for awards down the road with what he did with this movie. And then there was a special |
| 1:06.4 | addition. They came out years later that had that spider walk on the stairs that will forever resonate |
| 1:11.8 | with me and will never leave me. But it speaks volumes that he understood how to adapt that novel |
| 1:17.4 | Steve and turn it into something that people still have nightmares today of a certain age who |
| 1:22.6 | watched that movie. Well I know I tell the story when we when we did our review that I was so |
| 1:27.4 | terrified by the commercial when I was five-year-old that I had a hide behind the couch when the thing |
| 1:32.5 | came on. I mean this this this taps it so funny because you know I'm an atheist. You know that I'm |
| 1:38.1 | Jewish so that all the Catholic stuff is not what I grew up with. Yeah. Yet this is the shit that |
| 1:42.8 | freaks me out. Like demons and possession and all this stuff. I remember as a kid just being |
| 1:48.8 | terrified by the whole concept and the thing too and I think it connects a lot it connects to |
| 1:54.0 | the French connection which is that Friedkin in this era is totally unafraid to violate norms |
| 2:03.4 | and customs and he is gonna there are things that happen in the exercise with Linda Blair that are |
| 2:09.9 | so upsetting and disturbing and Friedkin just goes right at them. Yeah yeah and I mean it was the |
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