Episode #699 - Exorcist: The Beginning
Added 2023-10-03 04:00:03 +0000 UTC“If it’s Exorcist: The Beginning… let’s get some background on Pazuzu! What’s he up to? What was his deal?” - Steve
On this episode, the 2023 Halloween Spooktacular continues with a convo about the stunningly terrible prequel Exorcist: The Beginning! How bad are all these CGI landscapes? Why did they think an Exorcist film needed so many extreme gore-hound moments? Was that side-boob necessary? And really, Morgan Creek should have let Schrader finish his film with an appropriate budget and called it a day! PLUS: Your ears are not ready for the “Tubular Bells” knock-off at the end…
Exorcist: The Beginning stars Stellan Skarsgård, Izabella Scorpio, James D’Arcy, Remy Sweeney, Julian Wadham, Andrew French, Ralph Brown, Ben Cross, Alan Ford, Eddie Osei, and David Bradley as Father Gionetti; directed by Renny Harlin.
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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
Comments
Y'all are leaving money on the table not having merch that says "I have a Pazuzu up my Wazuzu"
Adam Ray
2025-08-25 12:07:19 +0000 UTCI remember the hyena scene being super intense in the theater!🤯 Great episode! 😆
Robert Calvillo
2024-06-12 01:17:51 +0000 UTCThose will continue to be on YouTube and then just the main free feed.
We Hate Movies
2023-10-09 15:09:23 +0000 UTCMy favorite time of year, when the Spooktacular lead-in hits the airwaves!
Arthur Cunningham
2023-10-07 19:32:00 +0000 UTCAre the on-screens going to be moved to the Patreon feed, like the ad-free regular episodes were? I think those are the last things still only on the non-patreon feed. If those move over too, I can just have the Patreon feed.
JohnG
2023-10-06 18:21:54 +0000 UTCI’ve only seen Dominion. A rare Schrader L.
Bethany C
2023-10-05 00:07:39 +0000 UTCIt's OK to like a movie!
We Hate Movies
2023-10-04 15:44:31 +0000 UTCThis hurt.
TDB
2023-10-04 13:07:27 +0000 UTCI got a Diwcma from my Grandmother as a HS graduation gift in 1990
James C Harris
2023-10-04 12:01:06 +0000 UTCAll I could think of during that confessional bit was Jonathan Frakes in a priest robe and collar sitting in the booth doing his Beyond Belief routine. "It's fiction. It's totally made up!"
John Edwards
2023-10-04 06:26:20 +0000 UTCBut what's funny is the original film sets that as having been sometime in the late 1950s and the exorcism itself "went for days" almost killing him, so they couldn't even bother to make any of that accurate. Dreadful stuff! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2023-10-04 01:21:28 +0000 UTCGot a legit lol from me! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2023-10-04 01:19:18 +0000 UTCSame. - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2023-10-04 01:18:42 +0000 UTCHaving these episodes ad-free on Patreon is fantastic but not having to go to Reddit to talk about them is honestly the bigger draw to me.
HockeenightsCT
2023-10-03 20:01:10 +0000 UTCI'd take Street Trash all day long over this.
Hard To Gwil
2023-10-03 18:59:38 +0000 UTCThe reason why the story is set in Kenya (Turkana region) is because in the OG Exorcist, there is a reference to Merrin having battled Pezuzu there and having saved a boy. The sequel kind of expands on that. Still this film is an utter turkey.
Deano Rezzz
2023-10-03 18:21:48 +0000 UTCCatholic Church and the Long Beach Dub All-Stars? More like "Sublime with Rome" Edit: this is the dumbest fucking joke
Matt
2023-10-03 14:35:16 +0000 UTCThe third hyena was Welker.
MarkNM
2023-10-03 14:12:47 +0000 UTCIzabella 🦂
Felipe Sobreiro
2023-10-03 12:06:48 +0000 UTCBeginning today, Believer on Friday. WATTBA for us Exorcist / WHM fans
Frank Grimes
2023-10-03 12:06:21 +0000 UTCJust checked and unfortunately it looks like Bushwhacked is no longer on Disney+ in the UK 🙁 It must have been removed very recently, as I'm sure I saw it there a little while ago.
Tony King
2023-10-03 11:54:36 +0000 UTC“… but then he died of cancer”. Lol.
kbundle
2023-10-03 04:25:10 +0000 UTCI love the spooktacular. I don't know what it is specifically but I love listening to you guys talk about horror movies most of all.
The Wheel
2023-10-03 04:11:40 +0000 UTC
