Jul 30, 2020
Author and educator Dr. Michael Arnzen returns to urge everyone to think critically about William Friedkin’s THE EXORCIST, a movie he says tries to discourage you from doing just that. In episode 147, Luke, James, and Mike explore the “Scariest Movie of All Time” adapted from William Peter Blatty’s iconic novel.
Topics Include: the movie’s supposed curse as possible
marketing, whether Friedkin gets enough respect, supernaturalism
vs. realism, the echoes of the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s,
the parallel narrative of Father Karras, Linda Blair's injuries
from a “tyrant” on set, religion vs. science, the film’s position
in Horror canon, and what makes some stories catch on when similar
contemporaries don't.
Michael Arnzen
Studies in the Horror Film: The Exorcist (Centipede Press, 2012):
http://www.centipedepress.com/studieshorror/exorcist.html
Proverbs for Monsters by Michael Arnzen https://amzn.to/39yqvpx
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