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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with Doctor Bernice Murphy and Phil Bagnall, 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. John Boorman’s Exorcist II: The Heretic.

At time of recording, it was ranked 94th on the list of the worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show notes:

• Recorded and released especially for Halloween.
• Recorded 28th September 2019.
• Exorcist II: The Heretic at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB Bottom 100 as it appeared at time of recording.
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• The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture by Bernice Murphy, October 2013.
• Follow Phil on Twitter.
• Read Phil’s reviews at Scannain.
• John Boorman talks about his career with Hot Press, March 2017.
• John Boorman talks to Phil at Scannain about Queen and Country, June 2015.
• Ryan Lamble at Den of Geek reflects on the strange appeal of Zardoz, April 2016.
• Ryan Britt at Tor.com mounts a defense of Zardoz, February 2012.
• Oalar Hendrek at The New York Times on the emergence of sequels to New Hollywood success stories, June 1976.
• Leonard Wolf at The New York Times discusses the popularity of horror during the mid-to-late-seventies, April 1976.
• Gilbert Cruz at Vulture offers a brief introduction to the Exorcist franchise, October 2013.
• Niles Schwartz at Slant Magazine makes an argument for Exorcist II: The Heretic as a fascinating work by a visionary filmmaker, October 2018.
• Brian Collins at Birth. Movies. Death. discusses the troubled production history of Exorcist II: The Heretic, October 2018.
• Kayleigh Donaldson at SyFy explores whether Exorcist II: The Heretic is the worst sequel ever made, November 2018.
• Jason Bailey at Flavourwire debates whether Exorcist II: The Heretic is a good bad movie, October 2014.
• Nathan Rabin discusses Exorcist II: The Heretic and its defenders at The A.V. Club, July 2005.
• William Friedkin talks to Entertainment Weekly about his opinion of Exorcist II: The Heretic, January 2019.
• Caitlín Griffin at Her Campus on the sexualisation of young actors, November 2017.
• Emma Watson talks to The Independent about the way in which she has been sexualised, July 2016.
• Kelly Wallace at CNN discusses the habit of “counting down” until female celebrities come of age, September 2013.
• Gerard O’Connell at America Magazine on the controversy around  the writings of Teilhard de Chardin, November 2017.
• Serkalem Tafesse at The Culture Trip on the strange state of the Ethopian calendar, September 2018.
• Critics at IndieWire on the debate around “elevated horror”, March 2019.
• Andy Crump at The Hollywood Reporter on how The Witch launched an elevated horror movement, May 2019.
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