Half in the Bag: The Exorcist: Believer

The power of Christ compels Mike and Jay to see another trash rebootquel cash grab soft-reboot sequel remake. This time, David Gordon Green and Blunhouse have got their dirty, disgusting hands on The Exorcist, one of Jay's favorite movies of all time. Is the movie any good???????? What do you think?????

[@joshuasears4566]

I cheered when Father Exorcist said, "Somehow, Pazuzu has returned".

[@lukasketner]

The dead speak!

[@Scott_Silver]

I cheered when he said “It’s exorcisting time and exorcisted all over everyone

[@TimberlyT]

"You're an...exorcist?" Chris MacNeil: "Part-time."

[@mr.shorty7799]

All I can think of when she says 'the patriarchy' is the priest hurling himself out of the window to save her daughter.

[@rossz4898]

@magicschoolbussy1233 a straight white member of the patriarchy blissful unaware of his male privilege and how his actions contributed to the gender pay gap

[@mrpurple11]

That just tells u they throw the original ideas and characters motives to the thrash can

[@FinalBossWTMN]

Kinda like women whining about "the patriarchy" while living in and benefitting from a society literally built by and on the bodies of men

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

@magicschoolbussy1233 Almost certainly would _not_ be damned, as he sacrificed his own life for the purpose of saving a child from the grips of a demon, all in the name of the lord. As he gave his life for a purpose (and a very good one), he's a martyr, and in older times he would have been recognized and revered as a saint.

[@jarrodhall3686]

The reason he did so was to assert his toxic masculinity in the most machismo action imaginable

[@alexdivision4320]

"it's going to take all of them" from the trailer is a hilarious line. Imagining religious leaders teaming up like a super hero team to banish a ghost is so stupid

[@Sh4dowFawx]

Catholic priest walks up to an Imam- "I'm putting together a team..."

[@Colin-ni1fu]

So basically, a priest, an imam, and a rabbi walk into a bar…

[@PinballCollection]

The new religion cinematic universe (RCU)

[@markbelew1376]

Recruit more priests, more deacons!

[@phoebeaurum7113]

Satanist cult leader: Actually, Pazuzu is the good guy here.

[@kyneticfilms]

I love the part where she walks back into the millennium falcon and says “Pazuzu… we’re home!”

[@hannibalburgers477]

Pazuzu sounds like a little cartoonish alien name, like a Gremlin or sth. Why did they settled in such a ridiculous name? Demons names have aggressive sounding names generally, with like "KH" "ATH" "TAH" sounds. Malakath? Kathl? If you have hard time naming the demon, just call him Moloch, like in other stories and such.

[@m4tt.jpg22]

@@hannibalburgers477pazuzu was the name of the Sumerian god that possessed the girl in the first movie. In a lot of Christian doctrine demons are just gods from older religions posing as divine to get people to falsely believe them, so that’s why the demon is Sumerian

[@mapro3948]

@@m4tt.jpg22 "demons are just gods from older religions" - you mean vice versa, right?

[@jrus690]

@@m4tt.jpg22 When did you think to look up Pazuzu, and found out it was a Sumerian entity.

[@m4tt.jpg22]

@@jrus690I’m an antiquities major, I had to read a lot of near eastern mythology lmao

[@Horrormaster13]

_"The guy who made those new Halloween sequels is about to make one to my movie, The Exorcist. That's right, my signature film is about to be extended by the man who made Pineapple Express. I don't want to be around when that happens. But if there's a spirit world, and I can come back, I plan to possess David Gordon Green and make his life a living hell."_ An actual quote from William Friedkin 😂

[@Eamonshort1]

Absolute fucking king. His dedication to art extends to the point where he was willing to die like 7 weeks before the film came out to fuck with DGG.

[@TrueBuddhaCat]

The man called it before he left this earth May William Fredkin haunt David Gordon Green and the rest of the numbnuts who thought this was a good idea

[@rihardsrozans6920]

Oh shit you're actually right if Ed Whitfield can be believed

[@rae-everything]

Is the only source World of Reel? I can't find another source, but I hope it's true lol.

[@koanikal]

I love Billy Friedkin RIP

[@TheAtlasReview]

Honestly, the idea of every religion in the world trying to perform an exorcism on the same person would make a great comedy.

[@clottadams5028]

With at least a few religions on the side of the demon.

[@luckyspurs]

Mel Brooks must wish he was 30 years younger.

[@tweeeeeex]

It's like that scene in The Mummy where that guy Beni encounters Imhotep for the first time and starts pulling out every religious tchotchke he has in an attempt to repel him: funny and stupid at the same time. Executed right it could be a great laugh, but played straight it's just idiotic

[@TheGoodChap]

​@@luckyspursI was literally thinking that would 100% be a 30sec gag in like an Airplane style movie. I can visualize it perfectly

[@have_a_good_day420]

​@@luckyspursthat would only bring him down to 92.

[@AnAverageGoblin]

my favorite part was when all the religious figures gathered together and chanted "Evil dies tonight"

[@Korra228]

It's exorcizing time

[@elliethesmasher]

@@Korra228 when the power rangers showed up i pissed myself

[@Korra228]

@@elliethesmasher I clapped, I clapped when I saw it! I know what that is!

[@SuperHuscarl]

Lmao that actually would’ve made more sense than most of the dialogue in this movie

[@inspectortanzi]

Evil shits itself tonight!

[@piplup2009]

I wasn't expecting Tom Cruise to show up as a Scientologist exorcist throwing pennies at the possessed children.

[@MacaldaReye]

Underrated comment XD

[@curleyqreviews9793]

No medicines. Vitamins will help.

[@ToastyAvocado69]

@@curleyqreviews9793 and 4 hour sauna sessions

[@thrownstair]

I'm impressed they got a Pastafarian exorcist grating parmesan onto the girl's head, they really meant all religions.

[@afivey]

Tom Cruise levitated the material.

[@nou1178]

I cried when the mother said "The true demons were the glass ceilings we smashed together" just before girl-bossing pazuzu to death

[@kraftytactics]

I clapped when I saw this

[@cluckendip]

i genuinely have no idea if this is a joke or not

[@weneedaladder8384]

​@@cluckendip"girl-bossing" is a bad way to word it. She kicks in the door, says if anyone is gonna save these girls it'll be her and not some man, kicks all the priests except for the vodou priestess out, and then tells pazuzu that she's had to deal with the patriarchy all her life and so she's seen more evil than Pazuzu can possibly imagine. Then she lights a scented candle and sprinkles essence of holy water on the girls and pazuzu just kinda leaves back to hell.

[@agent5333]

BRUH

[@sarosp9330]

​@weneedaladder8384 is that actually the ending....? My God, I couldn't write something dumber and more ham-fisted if I tried

[@voidmayonnaise]

My favorite part of The Exorcist: Believer is the Smash Mouth’s “I’m a Believer” dance party during the credits.

[@crazyralph6386]

“And I saw Pazuzu’s face…..now I’m a believer!”. 😂

[@hypno5690]

We didn't know how good we had it when Shrek came out

[@rihardsrozans6920]

​@@hypno5690I shit you not Shrek is the first movie I ever saw in a cinema and that's something I'm entirely proud of

[@Hemostat]

one of the girls is possessed by the smash mouth guy's ghost

[@Kidd724]

​@@HemostatMr. Mouth

[@mironkrage971]

Fact that they spent almost half a billion to buy the franchise and this is their first movie is the funniest shit ever, it brings me joy

[@shawklan27]

Never knew the franchise was this valuable to be bought for almost half a billion when everything but the original were utterly forgettable :/

[@ASSLEVANIA]

@@shawklan27have you seen the third film? That movie’s WAY better than it has any right to be. It’s got some truly UNforgettable lines and dialogue. I’ll agree with you on the prequel films being totally forgettable, but even the second one is truly memorable to me. Not good, but definitely not forgettable.

[@richardcahill1234]

​@@shawklan27Adjusted for inflation the original grossed over $2b.

[@iblard]

They still can resell those rights when the appropriate time arrives.

[@TrueBuddhaCat]

Really hope they kept that receipt because there is no way in the seven layers of hell they’ll be making a trilogy

[@mattwetmore3820]

"it's about family" will never stop being funny

[@WeWantBears]

And that's what's so important.

[@stephenpmurphy591]

Who's family ?

[@Lu-db1uf]

What?

[@szymonsobczak2307]

Exorcist x Fast&Furious crossover inbound

[@HubbardiumKing]

​@Lu-db1uf it's a reference to some cringe Star Wars Sequel marketing

[@jstarwars360]

If only Mr. Plinkett's VCR got as much love, care, and attention as Jay's hair.

[@hodun8]

So you're saying that "Lightning fast" vcr repair is hyperbole?

[@paulpsycho78]

​@@hodun8I'd say Jay is going more for the Kurt Cobain look , less of a hyper bowl haircut

[@DanArnets1492]

​@@paulpsycho78 - He's just getting ready to deepthroat a shotgun

[@Happymoron11]

On William Friedkin's passing, writer and film critic Ed Whitfield posted this on Twitter (X) and Facebook: "William Friedkin once said to me, 'Ed, the guy who made those new Halloween sequels is about to make one to my movie, the Exorcist. That's right, my signature film is about to be extended by the man who made Pineapple Express. I don't want to be around when that happens. But if there's a spirit world, and I can come back, I plan to possess David Gordon Green and make his life a living hell.'"

[@lacolem1]

😂😂

[@shugaroony]

Friedkin was great.

[@doodooswaggy3825]

There’s so few people that that would even be a believable quote. He’s absolutely one of them. It’s his voice and everything. RIP to a real one.

[@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370]

If that happens, the Patriarchy wouldn't be able to save his ass.

[@JamesBrown-sn6le]

The Exorcist: Believer is a sad example of the way cinema is cannibalizing itself in order to keep recycling known names for brand recognition. The sooner this era ends and a new one begins, the better.

[@jackflash8218]

The sooner The Stone arrives, the better.

[@rickeyuscg]

They will do the same they did to the Star Wars films. Intentionally destroy the franchise to kill the culture we grew up in.

[@lorecow88]

@rickeyuscg Yep, that's more or less it.

[@SnoopyReads]

October has become the dregs of yearly cinema releases with Saw sequels and this type of garbage to cash in on general audience's horror fetish

[@cheezyfilmsproductions1842]

​@@rickeyuscg Lol no. They aren't intentionally destroying the franchises, they just are idiots who don't know what the hell they're doing so they hire studio hacks who are clearly a terrible fit and then rush them along as quickly as they can so they can squeeze a little more juice out of the franchise they've already bled dry

[@DontStopCornPop]

We're at the point where The Exorcist 2: The Heretic is no longer the worst sequel in the franchise.

[@DontStopCornPop]

@diomedes7971 Yeah I agree. Social commentary has always been a part of movies and books but it seems to be more transparent in modern movies. Hollywood writers seem to feel like they need to preach to the audience first instead of just writing a good story. Santa Inc from a few years ago is another example of this. It's sole purpose is to preach a message instead of being funny. The writers also feel like things need to be spelled out. Like when that line of dialogue about Jesus dying and ressurecting three days later being parallel to the girls disappearance, I genuinely felt insulted because I had already come to that conclusion on my own, and then the movie ruins it by making it clear and obvious. Stanley Kubrick or William Friedkin never would have just spelled something like that out. It ruins the fun of deep diving into movies when the answers are given to the audience on a silver platter. And then having all the different religions come together to fight the demon in some "Avengers" style confrontation was so fucking distracting and lame. I didn't know or care about any of them. There's only like 3 scenes with the catholic priest before he gets his head turned around, so the impact of that murder is totally lost. It's yawn inducing instead of shocking. I thought the crucifix through the eyes was a pretty good sequence but I already had very little investment in Chris McNiels character anyways, and she said many times she wasn't an exorcist herself so what the fuck was she even doing there? The first half of the movie was genuinely good but the last half was so fucking abysmal that I'm embarrassed that I let myself get hyped for this movie at all.

[@doodooswaggy3825]

I re-watched it the night after I watched Believer. They aren’t even comparable. 2 is just complete silliness that falls on its face at every turn. But! It’s TRYING. It wants to do something. Believer is nothing but a cynical, stupid, lazy, cash grab using a popular name. It’s far worse.

[@jamesmeow3039]

The Exorcist 2 gave me a headache

[@X_Leonhart]

We are living really sad times...

[@filmfangirls9163]

Now a horror parody is a better sequel than two that were made! Repossessed and Exorcist 3 are the only true sequels 😂

[@movieanatomy4341]

I’m amazed how “it’s about family” still kills me every time they use it lmao

[@bencarlson4300]

Sadly, it’s now the thing I remember Carrie Fisher for, more than Leia even.

[@V742]

​@bencarlson4300 I thought it was referencing Fast and Furious? If it is something from Carrie Fisher, that's even sadder and funnier than I thought.

[@KomradeKrusher]

@@V742 it's both. It first came to notoriety trough F&F, but Fisher also said something along the lines of (one of) the SW prequels being about family, and that makes it so powerful.

[@EvangelionFan-ru7ri]

@@KomradeKrusherIt was “The Last Jedi” she said that about.

[@TheBermudaMan]

The cuts between David Gordon Green's more idiotic movies and Max Von Sydow's increasingly agonized expressions were downright therapeutic.

[@szymonlechdzieciol]

I thought it was Friedkin

[@nunopereira6092]

​@@szymonlechdzieciolit was.

[@plasmasnake4774]

@@szymonlechdzieciolat the beginning it was clips of Jason Miller and Max Von Sydow in The Exorcist, for the rest of the video it was Friedkin clips

[@relicreturns]

It was masterful

[@Kobiedog31]

This reminds me of William Friedkin telling the story about the first screening for Exorcist 2, when the Warner Brother’s executives were chased out of the theatre by the audience after they proclaimed “the people that made this piece of shit are in this room!”

[@Sudo_Nimh]

God I wish we could bring that energy back

[@_Ciaran_Maher]

It's amazing that David Gordon Green was more respectable when he made stoner comedies.

[@doodooswaggy3825]

As far as those go, Pineapple Express is a legitimately good movie. It’s certainly better than this.

[@SoaringTrumpet]

He was even more respectable in his early independent film days.

[@ramdom_assortment]

It's because he wants to kiss ass to Hollywood and have them respect him, thus putting in horrible dialogue.

[@libRteedude]

@@SoaringTrumpet I remember Roger Ebert having nothing but praise for Green when he was doing indie films like "George Washington" and "All the Real Girls", hailing him as a great new director. He likewise gave a positive review of "Pineapple Express", but said it should just be a light diversion and Green should focus on his dramatic films. By the time "The Sitter" and "Your Highness" came out, Ebert was basically saying, "What the hell did I see in you?"

[@irishmanrants89]

@@libRteedude At least he went back to those roots following those two stinkers. Stronger was a great movie, and I know a lot of people liked the Nic Cage movie Joe. Then he got stuck in soft reboot corporate hell

[@kertsang2053]

They need to do a Scary Movie-esque parody with a priest, an imam, a rabbi, a buddhist monk, a voodoo priestess, a shinto priestess, and a scientologist trying to exorcise the girls while comically getting in each other's way.

A shame Leslie Nielson isn't with us to do it.

[@KonstantineMortis13]

And two Mormon missionaries who keep trying to give out books to everyone before being told to "fuck off".

[@kertsang2053]

@@KonstantineMortis13 Lol I forgot about the Mormons, yes throw them in there too.

[@tommyboy6]

I can almost see the whole movie being like a week long film where everyone shows up at the invitation of the parent who will pay whomever a "bounty" to get rid of the demon. So they all are intentionally fucking up each of their competitors efforts, but also trying to exorcise this girl. A "its a mad mad mad mad world" type of film with each religion just fighting over it would be funny. Itd even be better if the parent provided them lodgings to stay in and they all have to share 2 rooms, and commence bickering and bitching with each other

[@AsiaDanceScene]

​@He actually did do it in Repossessed.

[@GoatgutsRecords]

I love when Mike is sober enough to do his voice of what he thinks a happy person sounds like

[@mendelovitch]

Timepoint, please?

[@InaudibleSlinky]

I was hoping for a splice in of that scene from "The Mummy" where a character just starts cycling through different religious necklaces, saying different prayers, hoping to hit on the one that will work.

[@gatts13]

Ohhhh, that was such an amazing scene.

[@MsLambchop]

😂

[@theslydog59]

To be fair, he did hit the right religious necklace in the end and was spared by the mummy

[@mahler151]

It wasn't the religion that saved him though, it was because he could speak a language (Hebrew I think) the mummy found useful.

[@InaudibleSlinky]

@@mahler151 True, but he was speaking Hebrew because he was clutching at God Straws.

[@hothotheat3000]

Reagan hugging the priest is a genuinely moving moment.

[@doodooswaggy3825]

It certainly is. There’s more than a few really powerful moments in that film. Chris crying to Karras and screaming “Jesus Christ, won’t somebody help me?” has choked me up more than once. I’ve never felt a more real moment of parental despair in a movie.

[@coldestbeer]

Ronald Reagan

[@hector-sauvage]

​@@doodooswaggy3825Father Merrin holding Regan's hand as he restarts the exorcism is another low key emotional moment that I always enjoy. He separates the girl from the monster.

[@doodooswaggy3825]

@@hector-sauvage For sure, good call. How he just kinda casually moves the puke off his hand and keeps going is great.

[@sciencefantastic]

Just the fact that Karras selflessly sacrifices himself to save Reagan is moving in its way

[@Cruarc]

The pictures of the white male directors, actors, and producers fading in while talking about the black lady oncologist using slave magic was priceless.😅

[@SanguineUltima]

*white 👃✡

[@Scaevola9449]

(((White)))

[@sabinela4621]

They're Jewish, smart guy

[@MsMvsc]

@@sabinela4621 you can be any race and jewish, smart guy

[@BR-re7oz]

@@MsMvsc judaism is literally an ethnicity not a religion. It's why they largely don't allow converts (only major elites like members of the Trump or Clinton family) and you have to take a DNA test to gain citizenship to Israel. And yea, all those hollywood big shots are jewish, not White.

[@rockduded8925]

Holy shit that patriarchy line was so cringe. "Yeah, fuck those two guys who died saving my daughter!"

[@hope-cat4894]

Complaining about not being allowed into the room during an exorcism is like being upset the doctors won't allow you in the room during a surgery. That's not the patriarchy; it's a safety precaution! A parent could overreact to seeing their kid in pain and be too distracting for the procedure or lash out and attack the medical staff. How did no one think that line through?

[@jackflash8218]

@@hope-cat4894 there is no thought beyond their incompetent, agenda-pushing bullshit. Should have saved the money they spent to be able to use the name "Exorcist" and just called it "Pandering: The Movie". There would be more dignity in it.

[@cool_sword]

Just out of absolutely nowhere, too. It shocked me so much, I actually looked over at my second monitor to watch the movie

[@MadMike1]

@@hope-cat4894 Don't ask questions, just consume pandering writing and get excited for more pandering.

[@kubli365]

​@@MadMike1I feel so seen and validated!

[@ArizonanSummer]

I don’t think I’ve EVER been more excited for a RLM review

[@RaysTrains]

I needed this so bad today lol

[@mude_13]

Same but I say that literally every time they upload

[@lolotheobserver2696]

seriously, ive been waiting for this one

[@Bale4Bond]

Lie

[@MrBoyYankee]

*You said it!*

[@tarkatantapir7287]

I petition for this multi-religious team of "Exorcist Avengers" to include a Satan-worshipper who tries to convince everyone that the possession shouldn't be stopped. Just make it 12 angry men Exorcist edition, the entire runtime is non stop arguing. No need for levitating chairs because our cast is gonna be throwing furniture each other debating whether a possessed girl needs Holy Water or Ayahuasca

[@xxSKAGhosTxx]

Then Thor shows up and it's a fuckin marvel tie in.

[@dr.juerdotitsgo5119]

You joke, but this sounds genuinely way more interesting than the actual movie. There has never been a more appropriate time than now for a resurgence of campy, schlocky, unhinged B-movies, but no one is doing it. Indie cinema is too preoccupied being artsy fartsy and up its own ass with social critique.

[@JeanMarceaux]

Then a priest walks in, carrying _A GUN WITH ONE BULLET_ and shoots the girl dead. The priest is limping and, for some reason, is entirely blue.

[@SmashBrosBrawl]

The most terrifying part of this movie is they expected you to take it seriously

[@DanArnets1492]

For me it's that it got made, that over 100 people agreed to commit to this garbage

[@doodooswaggy3825]

@@DanArnets1492 It’s truly puzzling that so many presumably sane people watched this and said “let’s put it out!”

[@DanArnets1492]

@@doodooswaggy3825 - It's what kills me with every major shitty movie. It takes a lot of people, a lot of managers too, to say "0k". Does 99% of Hollywood just do as they're told and never raise a hand even if shyly?

[@jazz-a-lopium8090]

@@DanArnets1492 Movies are too expensive. Seems riddled with grifters, too... Bad Robot? (all of em, they're awful, like on a moral/existential level) Hack Snyder? (just really, REALLY doesn't even understand his own movies, and I think if you include the multiple $300+ million movies which exist SOLELY to 'apologise' for how bad BvS was, that BvS is likely the biggest budget movie ever made, certainly the biggest budget z-list movie ever made), Alex Kurtzman? (so bad, he's on this list twice, once solo, once as part of the 'band'). Thankfully, I don't believe any of em'll work again, but who knows?

[@PerkolatorTheTerminator]

To be fair, it was mildly entertaining to imagine Pazuzu saying “Your dick, my mouth” “Just punch the tip and twist it” or “it was me, I sharted.” So at least there’s that lol.

[@ThePsychoAnon]

Red letter media is contractually obligated to add “evil dies tonight!” into every video.😂

[@theslydog59]

EVIL DIES TONIGHT

[@TheClevelandSteamer]

This movie is the perfect combination of “Evil dies tonight!” And “its about family”

[@Beardfascade]

That's what's so powerful about it @@TheClevelandSteamer

[@Danjoker.]

ELVIS DIES TONIGHT

[@lolotheobserver2696]

I love how these episodes always turn into Mike and Jay coming up with a million better ideas than whatever it is they watched

[@oneinathousand2156]

Mike’s off-handed idea about one of the girls killing most of her family while her dad is blamed for it and arrested sounds like something that would be unique and shocking to see if it were done well.

[@ManOutofTime913]

Cause studios always play it safe with IPs so they can play to the widest possible demographic. They come up with more interesting ideas by thinking of how to turn the premise into a good story rather than one that's going to appeal to everyone.

[@SeenGod]

i’d like to see some little animated shorts of those ideas 😂

[@lolotheobserver2696]

@@SeenGod hell yeah, I hope we get some more of those Spitballs episodes soon, the one for Speed 4 was great. "it's so fast it skipped right past 3" 😂

[@designatedred]

Makes me 100% happy a game like FAITH exists, as that seems to have captured everything frightening from the original Exorcist and more.

[@JormunB]

MORTIS

[@electricfishfan]

A FRANCHISE WITH ONE PREMISE

[@AnAverageGoblin]

faith is boring and relies on loud crunchy sounds being scary for anything to work. but yeah its good.

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

@@electricfishfan At least the Faith games were relatively inexpensive and aren't all that long.

[@guilhermehank4938]

@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine And the rotoscope animation was legit pretty engaging and unique to create an atmosphere that feels retro but also realistic.

[@Ryhan_Beard]

Mark Kermode had a pretty spot-on take about this: it's a movie made by people who've seen the original film, but haven't SEEN the original film.

[@hobbyhorse5848]

It’s a movie made by people who LOVED repossessed

[@paulinegallagher7821]

Lol He was so ready to rant Simon put an 8 minute timer on him to get it out of his system, and he really went for it.

[@mabusestestament]

Mark Kermode also thinks that The Exorcist is the greatest movie ever made.

[@JohnnyZenith]

They listened to it but they didn't HEAR it.

[@paulinegallagher7821]

@@mabusestestament He made the award winning 25th anniversary documentary The Fear of God: The Making of the Exorcist, so yes, hes had a love affair with this film since he first saw it, whenever that was. Its his benchmark for how all movies should be made, especially psychological thrillers or horrors.

[@vskane]

Mike describing an image of the police busting in on a bunch of cultists dancing around two little girls tied to chairs may be the funniest thing I’ve heard all year.

[@whatsup4825]

It would have made the film far more interesting, and an extension of Detective Kinderman closing in on Regan during her exorcism.

[@dannyfain3961]

Time stamp?

[@territorialtea747]

That was jay

[@dumcumpster]

​@@dannyfain3961about 36:00

[@MusicoftheDamned]

​@@dannyfain3961The context starts at 35:50, but the "what if" is at 36:10.

[@drangc0bex119]

My favorite part was at the end when Vin Diesel came out and said it’s not about faith…. it’s about family.

[@curiositycloset2359]

Mine was when the priest walked in and said "It's exorsisting time!".

[@drangc0bex119]

@@curiositycloset2359 That was a great scene I really loved how he exorcised all over the place

[@curiositycloset2359]

@@drangc0bex119 it truely is a golden age for movies right now.

[@lookoutforchris]

@@curiositycloset2359I high fived my bros when the Rock punched Pazuzu in the nuts.

[@takerdust]

@@curiositycloset2359 Mine was when I heard: "Who you gonna call?" "EXORCISTS!"

[@jeremyfraga5235]

The slow dissolve at 17:27 when speaking on "slave voodoo" written by an all white writing team was spot on PERFECT.

[@EndlessFunctionality]

*all jewish

[@jamesjameson4566]

Who gives a fck who writes it

[@papabzzt9353]

Did you mean to say Jewish?

[@thisdudegotreal]

No... he didnt. The whiteness in this context is whats relevant.....

[@papabzzt9353]

@@thisdudegotreal Jewish much?

[@Trowa71]

It's like that old saying, "Art is meant to comfort the comfortable and disturb nobody or else it won't make as much money"

[@kingtastytv]

Jay holding a glass of wine and talking about The Exorcist is him at his film-snobbiest

[@jackflash8218]

Should have had someone giving his free hand a manicure while having yet another person brushing his hair exactly 100 times.

[@TheClevelandSteamer]

My favorite part was when all the different religious leaders kept shouting, “Evil dies tonight!”, while preparing for the exorcism.

[@JoeyArmstrong2800]

"Hey remember that famous movie? Well we're here to throw it under the bus because it's old and stupid" - Every damn movie in the last 10 years.

[@hypno5690]

Every remake really does look at the camera and go "isn't this old shit stupid haha, we're in on the joke" for people who didn't like the original in the first place. I hate irreverence.

[@ManOutofTime913]

And they were such better films than the beloved originals that they've basically all been forgotten about.

[@jigglypuff3311]

​@@hypno5690top down destruction of culture they tear down anything good we make, because we are not allowed to make good things, only purchase the things we are told is good from those who have the most money to begin with

[@jackelewish1568]

Mike is right.. pick any religion and a specific demon, tell the lore .. it can be any one you want! But make a choice and write a good story.

[@thefilmeffect6089]

It would be interesting to see another religion’s version of possession, demons, hell etc. They decided to make the religious avengers assemble instead.

[@lookoutforchris]

@@thefilmeffect6089Jamaican Exorcist is Predator 2.

[@lolusuck386]

I like the idea of each religion interpreting a demon differently, but you have to keep the true nature of the demon a mystery for it to actually be cool.

[@Tiberius_Productions]

I would love to see an Exorcist film that adheres strictly to a different religion; but it needs to do so respectfully and from the perspective of an outsider/non-believer being forced to put their faith in said religion to save the day. The best part of the original Exorcist was that Chris MacNeil wasn’t a catholic and was forced to put her faith in it because she’d exhausted all other options.

[@shack8110]

NO! We are liberals trying to impress our liberal California millionaire friends! F off with your "interesting writing", and scary scenes, and character arcs.

[@greg6500]

Linda Blair brings out that "How to get revenge" tape, "Dont worry boys, I have just what we need"

[@ramonoski]

"We got credit cards in Pazuzu's name from each bank in the country and we're going to run him into crippling debt."

[@WeeabossVA]

The fact that Ellyn Burstyn never witnessed the exorcism from the first movie, yet decided to become a self-appointed expert of exorcisms is hilarious. If she was actually there to see what happened, she'd know that the the exorcism didn't do jack-shit, same result as what happened in this movie. I guess the power of love wasn't enough to protect your eyeballs. 🤔

[@hobbyhorse5848]

I almost laughed out loud when the demon started throwing hands. I guess the exorcists in the first movie were lucky that Pazoozoo didn’t have a shiv on hand

[@WeeabossVA]

@@hobbyhorse5848 Pazuzu was just pimp-slapping everyone. 😂 But fr tho, the disturbing aspect/centural theme of these movies is that the exorcisms never work against the demons. It's only through self-sacrifice that they can be expelled (the spirit of Christ compelling them in a way). But this sequel completely missed the core tenet of what makes these films so resonating. That and a multi-religion exorcism is one of the stupidest ideas I've ever seen put to film.

[@hobbyhorse5848]

@@WeeabossVA You could feasibly, if you give a f, make a film about exorcism that’s not Catholic. For me I’ve always wanted to see a good film exploring Jewish exorcism. But you can’t have too many cooks in the kitchen, if everything works…then why does nothing work? Because the demon literally banished a little girl to be tortured in a shrillex music video for all eternity.

[@uniqueness35fanofimginatio73]

I kinda dig how, in the show, she was kinda selfish and used what happened to help support both of em, and this caused a wedge between her and Regan. Idk, I just enjoy when they do interesting brings with the characters and take risks, and I feel the first season of the show did that without feeling cheap.

[@WeeabossVA]

@@hobbyhorse5848 It's something that could work, if Blumhouse cared as stated. Thing is, it's handled so poorly in Believer with them throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks. Something tells me the narrative they're going for is that Pazuzu (or whoever this demon is now because it's confirmed to not be the same demon from the OG) is just using the girls as bait to get Regan out of hiding, because they... want her still as an old lady for some reason. It's the same problem the Halloween trilogy had.

[@ejbalshan]

I like the part where the mother decides to just relax and chill with a demon she personally knows has killed two people.

[@kaijusoshingeki7214]

She had to be a girl boss and face the demon alone to go against The Patriarchy and got both of her eyes stabbed out.

[@doodooswaggy3825]

And what was she trying to accomplish? She would know better than anyone that there was nothing she could do to help in that situation. They made it seem like she just wanted the confrontation, or to try an exorcism herself. It’s complete nonsense. Ellen Burstyn deserved so much better.

[@jneilson7568]

Just wondering. Is that sneakily undermining the girlboss schtick? It's always when they build up as a big fight then immediately get shown why maybe they should've listened to the guy's advice for a very good reason.

[@reikun86]

I still don't know for sure if Pazuzu killed Father Merrin or his heart gave out.

[@reikun86]

@@jneilson7568 Now that you think of it, that might have been an F.U. to girl bosses...especially after that whole patriarchy line.

[@Dhips.]

Jay having a black cat named after an Exorcist character is the least surprising fact I didn't know, but could have assumed.

[@Norgorber]

He's posted her quite a bit on Twitter over the years, along with his other cat, which is cute.

[@luckyspurs]

Almost doesn't feel obscure enough.

[@g.sergiusfidenas6650]

​@@luckyspursyeah one would think he would name his pets after some obscure italian horror movie.

[@luckyspurs]

​@@g.sergiusfidenas6650 A bit of Jay died when Rich mispronounced Giallo on Best of the Worst.

[@howzyerfather]

Jay wasn't inspired by HP Lovecraft to name his cat?

[@PatricksCrazyPlace]

"I'm seeing double here. FOUR PAZUZUS!" That line made me laugh way harder than it should have, lol.

[@takerdust]

"Picard, how many Pazuzus do you see?"

[@MarkKlingman]

Jay has brought much joy to this old Italian stereotype

[@jocelynastheart2732]

🤣

[@luckyspurs]

It's crazy how many people in their 30s get that reference. From a random episode in the mid-90s.

[@g.sergiusfidenas6650]

​@@luckyspursnot a random episode though, one of the best ones.

[@Paul_Revered]

I think it was worth the 400 million dollars for the rights to call the movie "The Exorcist" instead of something like "The Exorcism of Suzie" and to play the piano music that was in the original for 12 seconds

[@Johnny0lovely69]

Shit it would've been easier to just buy the music rights

[@mabusestestament]

That music is Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield. I come across it all the time in second hand stores where they also happen to sell vinyl. It was already an existing record before The Exorcist, but it was the movie that made it a huge seller. It’s worth a listen, well the first 11 minutes or so are, the whole piece is the entire LP.

[@bigmicro]

pazuzie

[@bigmicro]

idk i didnt watcg it

[@ManOutofTime913]

The Exorcist Episode V: Hell Strikes Back.

[@georgerogers2120]

"I wasn't in their little patriarchy." Two things I think about this line are 1) It is very obviously written by a bunch of guys who don't really understand the concept of patriarchy, and 2) It kinda absolutely shits on the relationship between Chris and Fathers Karras.

[@hughjass311]

the catholic church openly refers to their leadership as a patriarchy because it literally is one though

[@jbode11]

It’s absolutely idiotic. Hard to believe D Gordon Green has even read the novel

[@cameleopard42]

What concept? It's exactly how that buzzword is intended to be used.

[@georgerogers2120]

@@cameleopard42 What an honor to have one of the writers for The Exorcist: Believer replying to one of my comments. Kinda.

[@spinlok3943]

Its like, did they even WATCH the original movie?

[@DmanDominate]

Jay finally feeling what starwars fans went through

[@krissuyx]

And even then he still thinks that what they did with Luke worked.

[@notveryniceatall]

​@@krissuyx wah wah wah

[@krissuyx]

@@notveryniceatall My weeping will not be mocked!

[@negima1276]

Ah yes, Danny McBride. The Actor well known for his horror writing ability…

[@GrrmPleaseWrite]

Well, he’s well-known for it, just probably not in the way he wants to be

[@luckyspurs]

Does Your Highness count as horror?

[@GrrmPleaseWrite]

@@luckyspurs yeah, that came out during the tail end of the torture porn trend

[@jonesy6354]

You mean that guy who wrote the second best Halloween film!?

[@quantize]

@@jonesy6354 no

[@4gillman]

Having a movie about an Exorcism where every religion is equally true is like having a movie about a man who needs a heart transplant and just gets his condition fixed by a chiropractor.

[@nicholasvinen]

And Chinese herbal medicine, and voodoo, and homoeopathy...

[@ForeverLaxx]

There's a battle anime where all the gods of each religion exist and talk to each other about how they're going to erase humanity from the planet (again) and start over, even going so far as to mention the most well-known instances of this happening by the different religions and how it never seemed to work. They just play it straight, like of course all these gods exist; it's the people who worship them that think only their specific gods exist. It's kinda funny, though many of the character designs fall into the "overdesigned anime character" category that doesn't really fit the mythos they belong to.

[@nicholasbarber8531]

Yeah. If the people who made this actually gave two cruds about the diversity through religion angle, it would be about either an exorcism conducted by a different religion entirely. Or You have **one** other religion that comes in, because this demon is shared between their two religions. Perhaps an Inam if they want to take a risk, or a Rabbi if they don't. Then have a clash between their personalities, with them realizing that they have to find common truth and strength between their faiths if they want to be able to triumph. Maybe draw a parallel between that and how secular people stubbornly refuse to accept a spiritual explanation at any costs. After all, initially these guys refuse to accept that the other could be following a valid religion, and they have to have **faith** in each other's beliefs in order to succeed, just like how the secular parent has to have faith in them.

[@MusicoftheDamned]

I want to agree, but I think this metaphor--well, simile--doesn't work all the way since it's *not* the "every religion is equally true" part that's really the main problem with this movie. It's more that, as Mike and you bring up, why even bother focusing on an *exorcism* (beyond brand naming obviously) if every potential religious methodology would be effective against that particular supernatual entity? It not only breaks the in-universe rules, but also retroactively breaks the first movie by making the priests' sacrifices pretty pointless on multiple levels. Hell, I think you could make a decently interesting movie or at least story out of "this unknown supernatural force possesses someone. An excorism is tried. The 'demon' plays along for a while...only for it to turn out to *not* being working at all because it doesn't play by those particular rules despite exorcisms working on some other demons. ...Well, shit. Rest of plot is finding its weakness." At the very least, outside of literal deus ex machina where the plot is resolved by like a random incarnation of Shiva walking by and slapping the demon out of the person or something, that still seems a better movie than one where the end message seems to be "maybe the real religion was the friends we made along the way". (All this while said movie also supposedly has relatively few stakes but still manages to send a seemingly innocent girl to Hell almost solely because her father is an asshole. Guess they really wanted to channel _Hell Girl_ or _Drag Me to Hell_ too.)

[@StevenErnest]

​@@ForeverLaxxWhat's the name of that anime?

[@kilo1012]

What's extra galling about that line is that she IS in the room in the book! Not just her but Sharon and Willie! She's the first who voluntarily leaves the room. So it makes perfect sense for them to streamline that in the movie.

[@lowserver2]

woke hollywood is so cringe i swear, also its really funny, to see that line pushed by an all white rich liberal men producers and writers@@asdadsgsaadasf6043

[@JohannesSkolaude]

Funny that a fact that proves her Point is used against her. Guess reality is Just a Game.

[@Dracon7601]

@@asdadsgsaadasf6043 Like normally, I don't like people going on about virtue signaling but in this case there's no better phrase for it.

[@xDARTHxWENISx]

What's more insulting? Not dedicating Exorcist: Believer to William Friedkin in the credits? Or DEDICATING Exorcist: Believer to William Friedkin in the credits?

[@luiginastro8831]

Making the movie in the first place

[@folkdude01]

Yes.

[@AlyssonGuimaraes-bl8nj]

it would be more disrespectful if they did

[@Melody_Raventress]

Both.

[@nou1178]

I'd say the latter

[@stvbrsn]

“She wasn’t in the room in ‘The Exorcist’ because *she’s not an exorcist!”* I don’t quite know why, but this might become my favorite thing Jay has ever said. And I like pretty much everything Jay says.

[@themajesticamericanwoodcoc1951]

Thank god the strike is over so that Hollywood writers can get pack to giving us scripts like this one!

[@Garsons-oq4lh]

The Exorcist and Jaws sure spawned an endless and at times regrettable cycle in the film world.

[@bencarlson4300]

They both have had better fates as franchises than most. The Jaws sequels are at least fun (especially 2, but 4 is The Room levels of fun) and Exorcist 3 is fantastic. If they still make that Exorcist trilogy and if they rebootquel Jaws… that would be bad

[@iost5459]

@@bencarlson4300 I’m holding out for a jaws prequel directed by Spielberg with Williams out of retirement.

[@jukeboxfandango]

Don't forget Halloween and Night of the Living Dead

[@tomsnowden6201]

@@iost5459lol why a prequel?

[@jukeboxfandango]

@@tomsnowden6201 - we need to explore the motivations of the shark and learn that he was abused by his father, who was a Great White Supremacist

[@NicWeyand]

I saw the trailer before Oppenheimer on 70mm, and had never experienced a crowd reaction like that before. The first part of the trailer was genuinely intriguing, then the jump scare bits began to happen with little laughs here and there scattered throughout the audience. When the title came on screen, the whole audience laughed, loudly.

[@SnoopyReads]

Sure they did chump

[@bencarlson4300]

I witnessed a similar reaction. The audience for Oppenheimer is generally the polar opposite of the audience for dumb horror jumpscare simulators.

[@toyotatacoma1616]

One screening had a woman audibly yell “What? Why?” as the trailer ended.

[@ThisUsernameSystemF-ckingSucks]

​@@toyotatacoma1616shes cool af lmao

[@infiniteevil27]

When the trailer played before Oppenheimer in imax, it was so fucking loud. When the trailer ended, everyone in the theater started chatting, probably because they also got their ears blown out.

[@redadamearth]

It's like a movie made by people who've HEARD of "The Exorcist" and then decided to make a sequel to a film they've never actually seen. It was ridiculous. I expected it to be bad, but I was honestly stunned how bad it actually was. While "The Exorcist" never even needed a sequel, Blatty's "Exorcist 3" is the only "sequel" to the original film that works - because it's not really a sequel, at all but a companion piece to the original that's just as solidly written, paced, directed and performed. "Believer" is just embarrassing.

[@luckyspurs]

Someone really needs to tell people that Aliens being amazing was a one-off. That adding more of the thing there was 1 of in the first film, never works, outside of that movie.

[@Hugsloth]

"FROM THE PRODUCERS WHO SAW [THE EXORCIST]"

[@retro1sheet925]

Constantine really reinforces what you guys are nailing on the inclusivity critique. One of the coolest scenes in the flick ... John cycling through all the religious medallions to figure out how to combat a very specific demon. So cool. If it came out after this it almost would feel like the scene was there to make fun of it.

[@chriscasperson5927]

Beni did it in _The Mummy._

[@rihardsrozans6920]

​@@chriscasperson5927Cool how you can just unlock a memory like that. I swear that has happened elsewhere, pretty sure some vampire movie maybe?

[@ashleylatour7644]

Pratchett kinda pulls that move in his novel Carpe Jugulum. The vampires condition themselves to be immune to religious symbols, but something reverts them and they can't stop finding and seeing religious symbols because of how they conditioned themselves (its been a while, but that's the dumb version lol)

[@Kidd724]

​@@rihardsrozans6920John Carpenter's Vampires, sort of

[@BioYuGi]

@@rihardsrozans6920 A book I used to love called 'Peeps' had an interesting take on this, treating vampirism a lot more like a parasite. The idea was that if you were infected, you grew to disdain and hate things you once loved, so classic 'vampires' all feared crosses because it started in the time and place where Catholicism was huge, but in modern day, it requires the protagonist to basically learn about the people, so he can weaken them with like, Elvis songs or their old stuffed animals.

[@heyheyhey33351]

There was no way an Exorcist sequel would follow the themes of Exorcist III, but goddamn, I wish it did. I hope Blatty was proud of the fact that he wrote and directed an incredibly unique film.

[@TheChadTI]

That figure that storms across the hallway. Lost my mud.

[@g.sergiusfidenas6650]

​@@TheChadTIBlatty was a natural it seems, insane to think he only directed two movies, that damn hallway scene and its endless feints, now that's an earned scare.

[@luckyspurs]

@@TheChadTI Up there with Hitchcock's change of camera angle to above when Martin Balsam's reaching the top of the stairs.

[@hafirenggayuda]

Exorcist 3 is really one of a kind. It feels more like a thriller detective story (like Silence of the Lambs or Seven) than exorcism.

[@g.sergiusfidenas6650]

​@@hafirenggayudaor Angel Heart, those movies that mix horror with other genre, when in the hands of competent people, end being awesome movies.

[@BATCHARRO]

"The Exorcist in Space" "Possessed Dwayne Johnson" Dude why are you imagining Doom again?

[@christophermanley3602]

Yes!

[@toyotatacoma1616]

This movie feels like it was reverse engineered in a laboratory environment to piss every single kind of person off.

[@journeyman2682]

That's a busy laboratory these days

[@XerafCZ]

They should have made it scientology exorcist and a space demon. Then they could cast Tom Cruise as a level 8 exorcist

[@jackothelantern]

A scientology exorcism would be such a good concept for a comedy, by showing how fucking insane the actual religion part of that cult is.

[@ComradeKits]

I love that in Mike's world every cop talks like it's 1945

[@brandonspain12345]

Fun fact: On Ed Whitfield's Twitter/Facebook post, he revealed that William Friedkin asked him, 'Ed, the guy who made those new Halloween sequels is about to make one to my movie, the Exorcist? That's right, my signature film is about to be extended by the man who made Pineapple Express. I don't want to be around when that happens. But if there's a spirit world, and I can come back, I plan to possess David Gordon Green and make his life a living hell." And shortly after the first trailer came out, William Friedkin died. Which further proves that this movie was a curse. Good riddance.

[@MrTables]

David Gordon Green is the big claim to fame from my film school. He came to the school a few years back and even showed Halloween Kills before its release. They haven’t invited him back since…

[@jackflash8218]

So you all had the chance to beat his fk'n ass & make sure he never attacks the world with one of his movies again... and you *didn't* take it?! C'mon, man.

[@PoeInTheDitch]

Yeah. Your school might not want to mention Green in their marketing.

[@Progger11]

If DGG is the caliber of filmmaker your film school churns out, you might want to think about transferring. Pronto.

[@baller302]

​@@Progger11to be fair DGG had some good films early on.. i dont know how he dropped the ball this bad, could be studio interference but man...

[@obscure.reference]

@@baller302 sold his soul to danny mcbride

[@stevesmith9447]

I grew up Catholic in Saint Louis, and one of the priests who was there for the actual exorcism was a non-teaching resident at my high school. Everybody knew to just kind of leave him alone, and the only thing anybody knew for sure is that he refused to talk about it with anybody, ever. Who knows what happened in that room, but it fucked him up for life, whatever it was.

[@12ealDealOfficial]

I live in GA and my best friend's coworker was an ex-priest. This guy had my friend pick him up for work for half a year. One day, the priest invited him and his girl over for dinner. While they were visiting, my friend had to use the bathroom while the one near the kitchen was occupied, so the priest directed him to the guest room bathroom, but told him "don't ask about what you see inside." My buddy went into the guest room, which was completely empty, save for a single wooden chair and a huge mirror. The chair had three straight legs and one that was curled like a horn.

[@woodykrummenacher5847]

I mean this unironically as a curious, fellow, raised-Catholic St. Louisian, where’d you go to high school?

[@stevesmith9447]

@@woodykrummenacher5847 Lol! Thank you for the clarification that you're not just making fun of the StL high school trope. ;) I'd rather not say, not out of privacy, but out of embarrassment. I picked it because they offered a small scholarship and my parents weren't shy even when I was in grade school (Mount Providence) about how much of a financial burden my education was. I will say that my early-career coworkers who went to SLU scoffed at me for going to "West."

[@joemama-ks9ty]

Wasn't the exorcised kid a know prankster? Wtf did that kid do to these poor dudes.

[@timflint25]

I hope everyone appreciates what great interviews William Friedken gave. He truly did not care about anyone's opinion. I'll never forget what he said to Nicolas Winding Refn 😅

[@Dommifax]

I think the problem isn't _just_ that they try to be as statistically inclusive as possible, but that they replace the creative process with it, thinking they won't have to go through the hassle of coming up with something good if they instead do this.

[@journeyman2682]

They didn't even bother with the hassle of watching the hit original movie that spawned the franchise they paid all that money for judging by the movie they made.

[@alwaysxnever]

That is the thing. I love diversity and inclusion and telling more stories. But you get literally a buck of white dudes to give us the most corporate shoulder shrugging version doing the bare minimum for the actual script and story.

[@EndlessFunctionality]

​@@alwaysxnever*jewish dudes

[@codinghusky5196]

This. If they went full on blackinization100% black black black, returned to Haiti and had a voudun priestess jazzinate the demon and show a battle between her and the evil vodoun priestesses who planted the demon inside the child pre birth, that'd have been woke af, black as night, but also new, different and, if executed correctly, COOL. I mean, at this point, I'm avoiding movies with a lead who's not a white man because I KNOW they'll be crap.

[@hercfactory32]

I always love when they get bored and just spitball more funny ideas when trashing shit, their ideas are always worth a laugh.

[@jamesmurray4062]

You'd love podcasts. Tim Dillon, Dan Soder, Nick Mullen and Jay Oakerson do that better than anyone.

[@Jake-fw5te]

“I’m not a big exorcist fan…the third one was one of the best films ever made” - Mike

[@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917]

The ending where they basically go "Okay, the black girl lives because she picked the right religion, voodoo, but the white girl died because she picked the wrong religion," was certainly a choice. Also, why does it feel like a Friendship Is Magic episode? It's The Exorcist.

[@stunner9005]

Voodoo is actually worse too, if you know the lore.

[@j.d.buchanan4897]

But neither girl "picked" any religion. The black girl, like her dad, was an unbeliever (but decided to flirt with spiritualism to try and contact her mother); while the white girl had no choice, she was raised in a Christian family, but it seems she herself probably wasn't a Christian, or else the demon would not have been able to drag her soul to Hell. And before anyone goes "No, it's because she wasn't baptised, stupid, they said it in the movie," being baptised has nothing to do with whether or not you're a Christian. (And before anyone goes "You're taking this all too seriously," then I just expect that if you're basing a movie on Christian principles, that you actually do the research to make sure you get the facts right and make it realistic.) The girl died because her dad picked her, thinking he was saving her.

[@szymonlechdzieciol]

@@j.d.buchanan4897 I mean being baptized in most denominations is absolutely crucial to being Christian - because being Christian is not only professing creed, but also being inoculated into Mystical Body of Church - which you do by Baptism. And Baptism in all traditional rites include exorcismal prayers as well. Now of course Baptists themselves ironically does not believe in specific power of Baptism, its more like maturity rite to confirm pre-existing salvific Faith . In Apostolic denominations - sacraments are crucial to really achieve virtue of Faith.

[@brianalice]

To me, it’s more impactful if the “correct” religion is not mine or yours. Having “proof” that everything you believed was false is far less comforting than “Christianity is correct, but slightly more strict than I prefer.”

[@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917]

@@brianalice The fact that there's a correct religion at all just neuters the entire movie because it means that if you do that voodoo ritual you're just completely immune to demons forever and get to go to a good place when you die. The girl wasn't even devout in that religion, it was just that one ritual, really. So, couldn't anyone do the equivalent of a quick Baptism and not only be immune to demons forever, but also guaranteed to not go to Hell when they die? Like, I think the only way you could find that frightening or unsettling is if you were really invested in your own religion being real. But, the flipside is that if you were lucky enough to pick the correct religion that's the ultimate form of validation.

[@vinnyethanol]

I'm really enjoying Jay's partial attempt at Snake Plissken cosplay

[@Marin22427]

Hear me out guys... this is the beginning of the ECU (Exorcist Cinematic Universe) with each religion having it's own member. It's secretly genius.

[@bencarlson4300]

That’s how they compete with The Conjuring universe, they could have a trilogy origin story for every possession demon for each religion like Annabelle or The Nun.

[@have_a_good_day420]

The different religions assemble like the Avengers against a purple super space demon.

[@mf_luder]

a south park joke taken a bit far lol

[@jeremyross9698]

I'm just remembering Jay's "we're just like Marvel" line from their Mummy review.

[@caesarsalad77]

The thought of an Episcopalian exorcism is hilarious on a baffling level to me.

[@CoreyGIvey]

Regarding the 180 and 360 neck turns in the original Exorcist, Merrin states in the 3rd act that the demon is "a liar and deceiver". The neck turns were illusions by the demon to terrify those that witnessed them.

[@MrCaseySasaki]

That's neat! It also adds to my appreciation of the first film, that you can add 2 and 2 to get 4 like that. Unfortunately, most films operate like a game of 'telephone'. What people remember most is what gets brought back for sequels/remakes, instead of anything interesting or subtle that you actually had to stop and think about. People remember the neck twist scene but not that line you're talking about.

[@johnnhoj6749]

Maybe, but an audience sees a literal head turn. Unless it is explicitly flagged as being an illusion then they take it as being an actual happening in the world of the story. That sounds simplistic, but it doesn't make it not true.

[@Joorum]

Movie-making today: "Can't do this, can't do that. Has to have this, has to have that." Welcome back, Hays Code!

[@TheIronLiz]

My favorite part of the movie, was when all the exorcists got the ghost of Father Kerris back, and helped him rekindle his faith. And they said "you're the Exorcist: Believer!" and then they all clapped.

[@Oniqueen]

The original movie had people leave the theatre in fear. This movie had people leave the theatre out of disgust.

[@GackFinder]

Why? Because the theatre smelled like popcorn and farts?

[@Corbomite_Meatballs]

@@GackFinder Popcorn farts? With or without butter?

[@MikeDingDong10]

The Avengers style team up of various religious leaders in the final third was astounding bit of film making.

[@libRteedude]

It's hilarious how Mike and Jay call it "The Wokercist" in a deeply ironic way, but they also cry-laugh because it's kind of true and they hate that fact.

[@asparrowwithamachinegun7886]

I can’t wait for David Gordon Green’s Rosemary's Grandbaby trilogy.

[@rocketforthree4479]

I always love it Mike suddenly pitches an idea for the funniest horror premises.

[@takerdust]

Then I saw Pazuzu's face...now I'm a Believer.

[@bonzodog67lizardking15]

They not only pulled a Han Solo/The Force Awakens, they pulled an Indiana Jones/Dial of Destiny: "It's not what you believe, it's how hard you believe it."

[@craighofmann638]

"The E-team is an elite paranormal exorcism team made up of multi-religions and denominations. If you have a possession problem, and if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The E-Team."

[@getdeclue]

Im so proud of Jay for making it through almost the video without bringing up Repossessed

[@NeODeLeuX]

It's incredible how Mike already sounds intoxicated before even opening the bottle, now that's acting! (or severe alcoholism)

[@katehikes1645]

>acting yes >alcoholic yes

[@eyeamstrongest]

its not alcoholism, its a side effect of being from wisconsin

[@JohnnyZenith]

He's just very old. Be kind to the elderly.

[@msh5270]

My grandfather was one of the producers of Abby! I always held out hope it’d find its way into BOTW.

[@Brubser_Jr_Reloaded]

The line about the patriarchy is honestly one of the most appalling things I've ever heard in a major movie like this. What a way to honor the two men who gave their lives, and what a celebration of the original film 🙄

[@user-zp4ge3yp2o]

The film was written by men, it's lazy pandering but will only appeal to the most far gone twitter rad fems.

[@lookoutforchris]

Par for the course. Woke remakes despite the original material and seek to destroy it.

[@johnathanross6519]

Welcome to modern-day cinema. Where virtue signaling is priority over quality.

[@zashimi1345]

Sam thing happened in Terminator Dark Fate. Sarah conner telling the new Chosen One "your not the threat, its your Womb". Complete disrespect to the first 2 movies because both those films point out that Sarah was the one who prepared John so he was ready for the war. How important she was beyond just giving birth to him.

[@the_real_Kurt_Yarish]

Mike knocking over the wineglass and shouting "FUCK ME!" with the same candor as someone accidentally dropping an atomic bomb on their foot is so funny and a relatable mood.

[@00Discourse00]

Do you know what she did? Your cunting daught->spills wine

[@TheBurgundyRobot]

Ever since they announced the film, I’ve been excited to see this review. There just no way it’s good haha.

[@forallthestupidshit3550]

The YT ads for this movie were SOOO bad.

[@hobbyhorse5848]

Saw it yesterday, it was far worse than it could’ve been.

[@TheBurgundyRobot]

@@forallthestupidshit3550 the trailer dropped before Oppenheimer. It was the last trailer before the movie, no reactions or anything from the trailers that played before, but the Exorcist trailer played and the audience was laughing at it. Like an entire theater just agreed it looked embarrassing haha.

[@forallthestupidshit3550]

@@TheBurgundyRobot not surprised. That little girl repeating herself was straight out of one of those parody Scary Movies. Seriously, how was it not a joke?

[@NickyMetropolis1313]

I had a feeling it was going to be bad because of one line in the trailer in particular. Something to the effect of "in the original case it only took one exorcism from one faith but now it's going to take all faiths!" I mean this is a completely woke line that they snuck in. The first film which was a masterpiece of course was actually rather pro Catholic/pro Christian. But in woke 2023 it can't just be a Christian priest, there has to be a Buddhist and an imam and a rabbi etc

[@GaijinEncarmine]

Exorcist authority Mark Kermode said the best thing about this film is: "It ends." Never were truer words spoken.

[@fdelm]

EVIL ENDS TONIGHT

[@luckyspurs]

The best thing Mark Kermode can say about it is that he still hates John Boorman more. Seriously, watch his Deliverance review. It's hilarious the "Deliverance is great; this man still made Exorcist 2 though" pantomime playfulness.

[@g.sergiusfidenas6650]

​@@luckyspursthe guy also made Excalibur in my book that redeems him somewhat for that turd of a sequel, Boorman's movies are a weird mix.

[@SteelBallRun1890]

"I'm seeing double here! Four Pazuzus!" A'ight Jay, you get a medal on your lapel.

[@grahammantle8381]

Hearing Mike complain about a sommelier broke my immersion. For years my image of RLM was dive bar goers or people who get kicked out of dive bars.

[@gonzoGnostalgic]

Mike just gets beer DoorDash-ed to the studio and drinks alone behind the Rich Evans Containment Unit

[@PaddyCollector]

They are famous for being hack frauds.

[@Treblaine]

"all religions have different methods, its going to take all of them" aaaaaahhh haaaa haaaa haaa! It's like something out of the Scary Movie franchise, unintentional comedy gold.

[@returnalnocturnal7729]

Reminds me of when my dad told me how everyone was laughing during the original Exorcist screening because of how goofy it was. That movie probably scared mostly naive weenies in the Midwest

[@Treblaine]

@@returnalnocturnal7729 I think your old paw and his contemporaries had what they call "true grit".

[@HorrorHermitofHell]

I cannot get the picture of Benny from The Mummy holding up all of his religious necklaces in an attempt to save his ass 😆

[@fartquaviasdingle7876]

@@returnalnocturnal7729 wow your dad must be really really tough! I can almost smell the beer breath as he says it

[@MrFilmography]

The power of Rich Evans compels you!

[@GeronimoPlaz]

I'd really like to see Rich Evans play a possessed 12 year old girl. The squeals....

[@gregv2k]

I really loved it when Chris MacNeil turned to the dad and said, “That’s not how the Lord’s Prayer works!!” like he was a ding dong

[@Amouroso]

YES. I appreciate your decision to not cover EVERY film. but sometimes a special one comes out that needs RLM attention. This is one of those movies.

[@ResponsibleToTheRealm]

My favorite part was when they uploaded a new Half in the Bag.