Kael Your Idols: A New Hollywood Podcast

Satan Goes Mainstream: The Exorcist (1973) and The Exorcist: Believer (2023)

Sam Ludwig and Alana Gibson Episode 10

When we found out that the 70s classic The Exorcist was to be the latest victim in Hollywood’s obsession with Legacy Sequels, a terrifying truth became all too clear: we would have to cover BOTH films on the podcast. This week your hosts braved the original William Friedkin film; widely considered to be a genre-defining work that changed the future of cinema, and the newly released The Exorcist: Believer by David Gordon Green which…is…also a movie! Topics include: the two films' respective views on religion, William Friedkin’s questionable tactics as director, and Ellen Burstyn’s iconic haircut.

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