W❤️M - The Exorcist
Added 2023-10-12 10:00:04 +0000 UTC“One of the worst things you could say to a priest is that their mother is in Hell!” - Andrew
On this month’s SPOOKTACULAR We ❤️ Movies episode, the guys are chatting about the terrifying, stone-cold classic, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist! How amazingly eerie is the vibe throughout this entire film? Should Georgetown put a guardrail at the top of those stairs? What are the odds Friedkin cast an eventual murderer as that medical technician? And who wouldn’t want to go see a movie with Lee J. Cobb? PLUS: Chris MacNeil’s ex-husband very much doesn’t believe all this possession nonsense!
The Exorcist stars Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Jason Miller, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran, William O’Malley, Rudolf Schündler, and Max von Sydow as Father Merrin; directed by the late, great William Friedkin.
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Steve jokes, but there's literally a movie called "the ninth configuration", directed by blatty, and it deals with Capt Billy cutshaw and how he went insane
ediblegenius
2025-03-26 19:25:48 +0000 UTCSpeaking of The Omen, In the very early 70’s Richard Donner stayed for a while at a Yorkshire farm owned by the parents of a good friend of mine. My friend only 4 years old at the time used to drop dead animals outside of Donner’s cottage. My friend’s name is Damien Omen. Read into that what you will…
Enrico Palazzo
2024-06-22 17:13:02 +0000 UTCI went and watched this at the movies last night for Halloween. It still scares the bejesus out of me but I did find myself having a good chuckle at times thinking about Pazuzu bucks and watching Kinderman tackle those stairs...
Kate Lampe
2023-11-01 03:27:00 +0000 UTCA bit late to the party, admittedly - but re: Steve's point about the novel expanding on the church desecration -- It's been years since I read it (I had a banged up paperback in high school that I put a lot of proverbial miles on), but memory serves, that winds up getting tied back into the main storyline - during the scene where Kinderman is talking with Chris, he takes a look at one of Regan's sculptures and discretely scrapes a bit of paint off. The paint turns out to be a match for the one used in the church incident. The film is pretty damn faithful overall, the only prominent cuts I remember are more matters of keeping things tight than anything else. The one other big change being a subplot where Kinderman suspects Karl was behind Dennings's death. There's some back and forth as Karl seems suspicious before it turns out that's just because he and his wife have been taking care of their recovering addict daughter. (Again, I might have the details a bit off, like I said, it's been years.)
Todd B
2023-10-24 13:52:18 +0000 UTCBaby: *head rotates 360 degrees* I love you, daddy. Earl: DO something!! We're losing him!! ROFL
Rhio2k
2023-10-21 17:13:13 +0000 UTCDid you guys ever see the episode of dinosaurs where they did a spoof of this movie
Arthur martinez
2023-10-19 06:32:30 +0000 UTCGreat episode. Some jokes about a legit terrifying movie help the medicine go down.
Doug Dee
2023-10-18 22:51:25 +0000 UTCI’m not a horror guy, so I’ve never seen this and I’m unlikely to ever watch it (even more so hearing it still freaks people out decades after they first saw it), so I appreciated getting the breakdown so I can finally get a sense of why it’s such a big deal.
Craig
2023-10-18 12:02:38 +0000 UTCUse of the wind throughout the movie as this omnipresent thing is so good. After all Pazuzu was the personification of the southwestern wind (not of breaking wind, sadly) in Mesopotamian religion.
Eren Keskin
2023-10-16 22:45:21 +0000 UTCBtw that real life serial killer Paul Bateson was one of the killers Dr. Wendy interviews in the season 2 of Mindhunter. Portrayed by Morgan Kelly
Eren Keskin
2023-10-16 22:20:33 +0000 UTCFriend of mine went to seminary because he wanted to be priest sometime around 2008 or so. They all hung out in between classes smoked crazy amounts of cigarettes and watched South Park.
Louis Steimel
2023-10-15 05:25:25 +0000 UTCI have been requesting this as my WLM for Fan Request Month for years! Thank you for finally doing this movie. I couldn't sleep for two weeks after I saw it for the first time!
Leesha Olivier
2023-10-13 21:46:50 +0000 UTCEvery time I see the scene with Damian’s uncle, I think Watto, so y’all really helped me feel justified. Lol
James Gibson
2023-10-13 03:55:39 +0000 UTCAnother fun fact, the doctor who ended up being a serial killer. He was one of the interviewees in Mindhunter.
Steven Avalos
2023-10-13 01:27:31 +0000 UTCHis first one certainly references this movie quite a bit. - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2023-10-12 20:51:46 +0000 UTCLove the WLM episodes. I always learn something about movie production, scriptwriting or reusing condoms! Do we think that DGG is going to bring the kitchen sink, as far as references and Easter eggs in the new trilogy? ✂️✂️
Samuel McGuire
2023-10-12 20:15:12 +0000 UTCFor the Final Destination Moon idea, since the F.D. movies have all been more teen based they should mix it with a reboot of Spacecamp. Tony Todd could voice the robot Jinx. "Jinx kill Maaaax!" Or it goes through the entire movie with them dying at the end, Max or whoever wakes up just before launch and demands it stop but Tony Todd at NASA mission control says "to late for that" and hits the launch button
Darryl Bowen
2023-10-12 19:36:30 +0000 UTCTrue story - someone brought out a VHS of this at a birthday party when I was 9 and I ran and hid in the bedroom. Not because they put the movie on, but because the TAPE ITSELF was for some reason absolutely terrifying to me. Lifelong coward!
Matt
2023-10-12 16:50:17 +0000 UTCSaw this uncut (as in not the edited for tv version) for the first time in college. Still one of me favorite memories from film school is being freaked out a little by the film, though not as much as the students behind me who sounded like they were about to have an issue. Nice to seen an early 70s film have that effect on an early aughts audience.
Ed Harris
2023-10-12 16:31:58 +0000 UTCEvery time I hear Tubular Bells, I am reminded that Mike Oldfield was 19 years old when he composed that and I just turn into dust.
Bethany C
2023-10-12 16:24:07 +0000 UTCIt always sucks to experience something like that in reverse, right? Fandom/cultural impact first and then actually seeing the thing much later? There's a few examples that are escaping me at the moment, but I've definitely had that experience before. - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2023-10-12 16:11:19 +0000 UTCYou all know my track record and going green at the movies, but The Exorcist is NOT one I'd waltz into after a tall glass of water. - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2023-10-12 16:08:26 +0000 UTCOh, nice! Are they screening the theatrical cut or the director's cut? I remember for a while you could only book the director's cut, demanded by Friedkin himself. - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2023-10-12 16:07:34 +0000 UTC50 minutes in I'm laughing so hard pea soup is flying out of my nose
Darcy
2023-10-12 15:56:01 +0000 UTCWhat an excellent day for an exorcism podcast 🤓
Tim O'
2023-10-12 15:07:41 +0000 UTC“You must be this tall to ride the decapitation coaster” just killed me
Robin Fry
2023-10-12 13:46:37 +0000 UTCI'm down for 2 hours of morgan freeman impressions.
MarkNM
2023-10-12 12:54:28 +0000 UTCTo be honest, I don't think any movie has been more ruined for me via cultural osmosis than this one. I saw possessed little girls pea-soup-puking on priests played for laughs 100 times before seeing it played scary. Well made film though.
MarkNM
2023-10-12 12:52:27 +0000 UTCPerfect timing. Struggling to stay awake on a 13 hour overnight shift.
Zu _
2023-10-12 10:18:34 +0000 UTCYou guys need to do shawshank at one point. Favourite movie of all time
Matthew Burgoyne
2023-10-12 10:17:04 +0000 UTCan absolute classic. Every time I ask my Dad if he wants to revisit the film, he's like nooooo, it scared the shit outta him when he saw it as a teen when it first premiered in the 70's...he also said he was high off some shit too, though hahaha.
Frank Grimes
2023-10-12 10:05:32 +0000 UTCExcited for this. There is a 50th anniversary screening on Halloween in my city and this will be the perfect scene setter. Thanks
PigeonTom
2023-10-12 10:05:19 +0000 UTC
