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Speaker 1: Great the flick with ben O'Shea on ninety six a FM.

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Speaker 1: This year, the incredible movie The Exorcist turns fifty.

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Speaker 2: It's incredible. It is incredible. It's an icon of cinema.

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Speaker 2: It's influenced so many filmmakers over the years. Directed by

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Speaker 2: the Great William Friedkin, who passed away in August, so

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Speaker 2: just recently passed away, so he didn't get to see

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Speaker 2: this sequel. Maybe that's a good thing, blessing. It's so

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Speaker 2: for people who haven't seen The Exorcist, you really have to.

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Speaker 2: It'll terrified and pants off. Yeah, every time I go

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Speaker 2: up the stairs with bedroom for people who didn't live

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Speaker 2: through the era. When it came out like it shocked audiences.

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Speaker 2: There were people fainting in the theaters. It was banned

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Speaker 2: in countries around the world because it was seen as

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Speaker 2: so blasphemous, so shocking, with this demonic possession, the little

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Speaker 2: girl Reagan played by Linda Blair in the original movie,

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Speaker 2: the head spinning around, the projectile vomits. Any things about this.

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Speaker 1: Time to go see a movie too where you hadn't

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Speaker 1: seen all the bits that were you know, controversial, or

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Speaker 1: the best bits, or the movie viewing in those days

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Speaker 1: at the cinema was different.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, people queued up for miles to come and see

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Speaker 2: this film to be shocked on word of mouth. And

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Speaker 2: here's a fun fact. So it was banned in the

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Speaker 2: UK on home video release until wait for it, nineteen

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Speaker 2: ninety nine. Joke it up until nineteen ninety nine, you

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Speaker 2: could not get it on VHS or DVD in the

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Speaker 2: UK because.

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Speaker 3: Their character did some pretty gross and said some gross.

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Speaker 2: Because because when the film came out in nineteen seventy three,

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Speaker 2: like the classification board in the UK thought, you know what,

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Speaker 2: if we allow people to watch this in their homes,

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Speaker 2: it could mess with them so much emotionally that they

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Speaker 2: might become completely unhinged. So they banned it, and then

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Speaker 2: they overturned that in nineteen ninety nine and admitted there

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Speaker 2: actually wasn't really any evidence of anybody really losing their mind. Afterwards,

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Speaker 2: it exists, and so over the years there's been a

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Speaker 2: number of attempts to make sequels and spin offs for

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Speaker 2: in fact, with the worst of them probably the first

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Speaker 2: Exorcist two Heretic, which is considered one of the worst

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Speaker 2: movies of all time, even though it was also directed

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Speaker 2: by William Fried Freakin and had Linda Blair who played Reagan,

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Speaker 2: she was back, and Max Foncido, who was the Priest,

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Speaker 2: he was back as well. But all of the sequels

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Speaker 2: have been pretty forgettable, to be honest. And so now

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Speaker 2: along comes another one on the fiftieth anniversary of the

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Speaker 2: original called The Exorcist Believer, and it comes from the

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Speaker 2: creative team who reinvigorated the Halloween franchise recently. So we

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Speaker 2: saw Halloween, Halloween Kills, and whatever the third one was,

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Speaker 2: I can't remember. It was directed by David Gordon Green

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Speaker 2: who for people following along at home, he's a guy

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Speaker 2: who's worked on shows like The Righteous, Gemstones and East

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Speaker 2: Bound and Down and with one actor Danny McBride, who

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Speaker 2: is a funny, funny dude, but he's also a scriptwriter.

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Speaker 2: And so Danny McBride worked on the scripts for the

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Speaker 2: Halloween movies. He's co written the script for The Exorcist Believer.

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Speaker 2: So that's an interesting kind of side note to all

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Speaker 2: of this. And it stars Leslie Odom Jr. From Hamilton

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Speaker 2: As this single dad in small town America who ten

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Speaker 2: years earlier has endured this personal personal tragedy in Haiti

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Speaker 2: in an earthquake, finds himself raising a young daughter, Angela,

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Speaker 2: by himself. Everything's going along, okay, life's a bit tricky,

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Speaker 2: but then it gets a turn for the worst when

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Speaker 2: Angela and her school bestie Catherine go walking off into

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Speaker 2: the woods, disappear for three days. No one knows where

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Speaker 2: they are. They randomly turn up. They have no memory

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Speaker 2: things start to get a bit weird. Their behavior gets

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Speaker 2: stranger and stranger physically, they start to experience some odd symptoms.

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Speaker 2: You can see where it's starting. They start walking back.

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Speaker 2: They don't see quietly in church on Sunday. Instead, that

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Speaker 2: starts spoutings, spouting some pretty inappropriate stuff, we're our church

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Speaker 2: service and all of that kind of stuff, and talking

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Speaker 2: deep voices don't sound like, don't sound like what little

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Speaker 2: girls are supposed to sound like. Not at that point,

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Speaker 2: but as it's kind of unfolds and they're not getting

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Speaker 2: any help from the psychiatrists and the medical profession, the

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Speaker 2: dad Victor starts to think, well, you know, I need

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Speaker 2: an explanation for what's going on here. And his next

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Speaker 2: door neighbor who happens to be a nurse at the

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Speaker 2: hospital where the girls are being treated, played by and

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Speaker 2: Dowd from The Handmaid's Talk. Any other movies gone down

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Speaker 2: is great? Yeah, She's like, do you know what I

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Speaker 2: have heard of something like this happening once before, fifty

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Speaker 2: years ago. Maybe we're talking about a demonic possession, which

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Speaker 2: Victor is. He's pretty reluctant to go straight to demonic

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Speaker 2: possession as he would, but eventually he doesn't really have

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Speaker 2: along with it and meet with this person turns out

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Speaker 2: to be Chris McNeil, who's the from the first Exorcist

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Speaker 2: movie played by Oscar winner Ellen Burston. So she was

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Speaker 2: nominated for an Oscar for her role in The Exorcist.

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Speaker 2: That film was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy.

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Speaker 2: It's like, really one of the only horror movies to

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Speaker 2: ever get that on her. And so Ellen Burston is

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Speaker 2: back and she is amazing, Like she is so fantastic,

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Speaker 2: and she's she's got this grace to her that he

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Speaker 2: movie like The Exorcist. Believer, and so she comes along

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Speaker 2: to help out. And then eventually, about halfway through the movie,

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Speaker 2: it turns into you know, an exorcism. It's in the

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Speaker 2: title of the film. You know it's coming. But this

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Speaker 2: time around, instead of just being like you know, the

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Speaker 2: Catholic Church, the reading, the Roman Rite, you know, like

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Speaker 2: by the power of Christ, all that kind of gear,

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Speaker 2: this time they kind of expanded a little bit and

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Speaker 2: include other faiths. It's a multi multi faith exorcism. So

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Speaker 2: you've got some Pentecostal faith, you've got some Baptists, you've

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Speaker 2: got some voodoo people, and so there there bringing it

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Speaker 2: all all in there, stuff thrown it into the mix

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Speaker 2: to see how they go. People as they battle, as

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Speaker 2: they battled this this demon that's infected both of these kids,

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Speaker 2: and then it kind of you know, I will say,

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Speaker 2: without giving any spoilers away, you will get some projectile vomit, okay,

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Speaker 2: and maybe there's a bit of head spinning. But it's

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Speaker 2: a different, different difference sort of crick neck to what

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Speaker 2: we saw in the original, A bit of a plot

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Speaker 2: twist to the crick neck. Yeah, count the clock pluses.

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Speaker 2: I will say. I will say there has been an

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Speaker 2: improvement in special effects technology. Although you know what, that

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Speaker 2: doesn't do it will You'll be happy to know at

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Speaker 2: least that the projectile vomit was not done with c

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Speaker 2: g I. They actually actually had the vomit just like

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Speaker 2: in the original. They tried to recreate, try to recreate

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Speaker 2: the you know, sort of the realistic feel of the

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Speaker 2: of the vomb, sort of black and horrible.

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Speaker 3: What about the words coming out like healthier weather in

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Speaker 3: the stomach.

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Speaker 2: Got some of that fun throwbacks, fun throwbacks to the

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Speaker 2: original movie if you've seen it. The music, the music

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Speaker 2: yet some similarities there. So the good things are the

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Speaker 2: opening kind of third is really quite good. The way

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Speaker 2: it builds up the story is fantastic and it looks great.

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately the exorcism stuff not so great, Like it certainly

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Speaker 2: doesn't live up to the original, which is extremely high.

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Speaker 2: Bus it's without someone like a Max von si Like.

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Speaker 2: It's just it's just is not really the same who

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Speaker 2: played far too Unfortunately, its just not enough, just not

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Speaker 2: enough big name actors in this I think to carry it.

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Speaker 2: The kids are pretty good who play these possessed children

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Speaker 2: in the film. Lydia Jewett and Olivia O'Neill are fine.

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Speaker 2: And Leslie odem is pretty good too, but just yeah,

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Speaker 2: the plot probably doesn't quite get there. A few plot

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Speaker 2: holes that you kind of you know, you could you

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Speaker 2: could drive a church bus through, and you know, like,

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Speaker 2: admittedly it is extremely hard to follow an icon. And

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Speaker 2: I will say it's probably the best of all of

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Speaker 2: the Exorcist sequels, but that's you know, that's damning it

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Speaker 2: with faint praise, let's be honest, because all the rest

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Speaker 2: of them are complete trash. So I guess just temper

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Speaker 2: your expectations for this film.

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Speaker 3: How many big green speuzy speak gream bombs. I'm going

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Speaker 3: to give it two and a half. Okay, so it's okay,

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Speaker 3: not great. I have to exercise that from your systems.

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Speaker 2: See you, guys,