End Credits #318 - October 25, 2023 (The Exorcist: Believer)

This week on End Credits, it's Halloween! Obviously. Let us mark the occasion, appropriately enough, with a review of a horror movie, and this time let it be The Exorcist: Believer. The Power of Christ will compel us to render a verdict about that movie, and it will also compel us to do something new as we hand out the first ever Horror Oscars!

This Wednesday, October 25, at 3 pm, Adam A. Donaldson and Tim Phillips will discuss:

The Horror Oscars. You thought we were still months away from awards season? Not so fast! With Halloween next week, and with a new The Exorcist in the queue, we will pause this week to address the awards backlog: The Horror Oscars. If the Best Picture race was all about horror movies in 1973, 1983, 1993, 2003, and 2013 (to mark 50 years since the release of the original Exorcist), which movies would make the cut, and which ones would take home the prize?

REVIEW: The Exorcist: Believer (2023). Five decades ago, the late great William Friedkin redefined terror with the improbably Christmas release of The Exorcist. Different filmmakers have tried four times to continue the story, but they've all failed either commercially or artistically (or both), but now along comes director David Gordon Green. Green, once an indie darling, restored Halloween to its former glory and they made some questionable creative decisions with his own follow-ups, so what about Believer? Can The Exorcist make a believer out of us?

End Credits is on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca Wednesday at 3 pm.