Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with Doctor Bernice Murphy, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.
This time, a Halloween treat. William Friedkin’s The Exorcist.
At time of recording, it was not ranked the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show notes:
- Recorded and released especially for Halloween.
- Recorded 28th September 2019.
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- The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture by Bernice Murphy, October 2013.
- Hugh Linehan at The Irish Times discusses the release of The Exorcist in Ireland, January 1998.
- Chris Darke at The Independent discusses the re-release of The Exorcist, June 1998.
- Vanessa Thorpe at The Independent reports on the unofficial ban of The Exorcist in Britain, August 1998.
- Helen Carter at The Guardian reports on the eventual British home video release of The Exorcist, February 1999.
- Noel Murray at The Dissolve discusses the popularity of The Exorcist in highly religious communities, October 2013.
- William Peter Blatty talks to The Washingtonian about his intentions in making The Exorcist, October 2015.
- Nick Ripatrazone at The Atlantic discusses The Exorcist as a piece of Pop Catholicism, September 2016.
- Edward B. Fiske at The New York Times on the Catholic Church’s immediate response to The Exorcist, January 1974.
- Vincent Canby at The New York Times struggles to make sense of the public’s embrace of The Exorcist, January 1974.
- Judy Klemesrud at The New York Times reports on the overwhelming public response to The Exorcist, January 1974.
- History Comes to Life offers a snapshot of contemporary press coverage of The Exorcist, January 2014.
- Behind The Exorcist, June 2014.
- Katie Rife at The A.V. Club looks at the cultural legacy of The Exorcist, March 2016.
- “The Exorcist 2”, Saturday Night Live, December 1975.
- Tina Page at Chuck Palahniuk compares the book and film versions of The Exorcist, March 2011.
- Noel Murray at The Dissolve looks at the career of William Friedkin, May 2014.
- William Friedkin discusses casting The Exorcist with Awards Daily, April 2014.
- William Friedkin discusses attending an actual exorcism with Vanity Fair, October 2016.
- Susan Kingwriter at The Los Angeles Times looks at the production of The Exorcist, October 2018.
- William Friedkin talks to The Dissolve about his career and work, May 2014.
- Michael Brown at The Revenant on the importance of sound design in The Exorcist, March 2018.
- Lee Hardcastle’s Thingu, January 2012.
- Mark Kermode at Kermode and Mayo discusses his obsession with The Exorcist, November 2010.
- Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami at Amazon.com, 1976.
- Leslie Felperin at The Guardian reviews Piercing, February 2019.
- Michael Nordine at IndieWire looks at extreme audience reactions to horror, April 2018.
- Adam Gabbatt at The Guardian reports on paramedics being called to a screening of Raw, September 2016.
- James McMahon at Little White Lies on the the cinematic hype of William Castle, March 2019.
- Sarah Gradd at The Met on the mythological inspiration for Pazuzu, September 2014.
- Danse Macabre by Stephen King at Amazon.com, August 1981.
- Matt Slovick at The Washington Post on The Exorcist as a Washington D.C. movie, 1996.
- Geraldine Fabrikant at The New York Times on the iconic nature of the Georgetown stairs as a cinematic landmark, October 2015.
- Mark Opsasnick looks at the story that inspired The Exorcist in Strange Magazine, March 1999.
- Mark Opsasnick talks to The Washington Post about his investigations into the stories that inspired The Exorcist, March 1999.
- Gwynne Watkins at Yahoo! looks at the panic around ouija boards, October 2016.
- Joseph P. Laycock at The Conversation looks at how the ouija board developed its reputation, October 2016.
- Matt Miller at Esquire reports on Paul Bateson, the killer who appears in The Exorcist, October 2018.
- Hannah Summers at The Guardian reports on the controversy around the treatment of Maria Schneider in Last Tango in Paris, December 2016.
- Gilbert Cruz at Vulture provides a study of the Exorcist franchise, October 2014.
- Fiona Macdonald at BBC looks at the history of backmasking, October 2014.
- Colin Freeman at The Telegraph reports on American troops launching Exorcist tours in Northern Iraq, January 2004.
- Heather Saul at The Independent on reports that the temple from the start of The Exorcist has fallen into the hands of militants, June 2014.
- Paul Hosford at The Journal reports on the splitting of the Savoy Screen One, January 2018.
- The Blaxorcist, October 2007.
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