Episode 221 – On 'The Exorcist'

In this episode, long overdue, Phil and JF discuss one of the great American horror films: WIlliam Friedkin's 1973 adaptation of Willam Peter's Blatty's _The Exorcist_.

Music: "Nascent Red," from PY Martel's Weird Studies Vol. 1.

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References

William Friedkin (dir.), The Exorcist

Richard Donner (dir.), The Omen

Fulton J. Sheen, On the Demonic

William Blatty, The Exorcist

Gyrus, North

Don Siegal and Clint Eastwood (dir.), Dirty Harry

Weird Studies, Episode 88 on Mr. Punch

Joe Bob Briggs, American film critic

Matt Cardin, "Teeth"

Ryan Duns, The Theology of Horror

Norman Mailer, "The White Negro"

Ray Brassier, Nihil Unbound

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" 

Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

John Lennon, "Imagine" 

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