Ep 139: ‘The Exorcist’ & ‘The Exorcist Believer’

This week on The Dive-In, the power of Christ compels us to revisit William Friedkin’s 1973 masterpiece, ‘The Exorcist’ and it’s recently released sequel ‘The Exorcist: Believer’, discussing what makes the original such a masterpiece in Horror filmmaking, why we think it’s one of the scariest films ever made even after 50 years, the enduring impact it had and continues to have on the Horror genre, & the ways in which it takes it’s time building the characters and world before all hell is unleashed, before we dive into Believer in comparison to the original, the ways in which Believer fails the name of ‘The Exorcist’, why it feels less like the original and more like any possession movie to come out in recent years, where it succeeds as a Exorcist sequel and the many ways it fails, why it being a trilogy already proves itself to be unnecessary, and much more..