Episode 380: The Devil Goes Hollywood

Show Notes Episode 380: Stay Away From Captain Howdy, Kids! Part 1 of Spooktacular 2023 This week Host Dave Bledsoe takes a bad tumble down the Exorcist Steps and has to go Dixie Liquors for his “medicine”. (This will only make sense if you live near Georgetown University) On the show this week we kick off the Spooktacular with the true tale of the scariest movie of all time and how it might have started the Satanic Panic! (No, not Mazes and Monsters! The Exorcist!) Along the way we discover the REAL reason Dave had to drop out of Georgetown. (He used all his student loan money for booze!) Then we dive right into the story of how The Exorcist went from nationwide best selling novel to a blockbuster movie that had people puking in the aisles like a possessed little girl! (Most of which never really happened) From the cursed film set (cursed by an asshole director that is) to its impact on how people in America believed in religion! The true story of The Exorcist is more about the devil inside the marketing department than some red dude with horns and a pitchfork. (Sorry, Satan!) Our Sponsor this week is The Infernal Names, when you don’t have to time invoke them all, just use Infernal Names. We open with news footage from 1974 and close with LeFay warning kids to stay away from a creepy military officer. Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense The Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHell_Podcast The Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/ The Show on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjxP5ywpZ-O7qu_MFkLXQUQ www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: https://youtu.be/JNKNFAKt7Q8 We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed:   Demoniac: Who Is Roland Doe, the Boy Who Inspired The Exorcist? https://skepticalinquirer.org/2021/10/demoniac-who-is-roland-doe-the-boy-who-inspired-the-exorcist/ Boy whose case inspired The Exorcist is named by US magazine https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/20/the-exorcist-boy-named-magazine THE EXORCIST – The Story Of A Cursed Production https://cinemascholars.com/the-exorcist-the-story-of-a-cursed-production/ The Exorcist Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exorcist#Critical_response Roger Ebert The Exorcist https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-exorcist-1973 They Wait Hours to Be Shocked https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/27/archives/they-wait-hoursto-be-shocked-the-exorcist-got-mixed-reviews-why-has.html The Folk Piety of William Peter Blatty: The Exorcist in the Context of Secularization Joseph Laycock https://www.religjournal.com/pdf/ijrr05006.pdf ‘Somewhere between science and superstition’: Religious outrage, horrific science, and The Exorcist (1973) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09526951211004465 AMERICAN EXORCISM https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/catholic-exorcisms-on-the-rise/573943/ Exorcists and Exorcisms Proliferate Across U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/28/us/exorcists-and-exorcisms-proliferate-across-us.html Uncited Additional Reading: https://slate.com/culture/2013/10/the-exorcist-40th-anniversary-blu-ray-why-the-devil-fearing-south-loves-william-friedkins-profane-horror-movie-classic.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exorcist_(novel) https://screenrant.com/the-exorcist-making-of-behind-scenes-hidden-trivia/ https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the-terror-of-unbelief/ https://www.encyclopedia.com/media/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/exorcist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Remembers https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/us/satanic-panic.html https://www.religjournal.com/pdf/ijrr05006.pdf https://youtu.be/LSVHpX1CDN8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices