Too Scary; Didn't Watch - Bonus Episode: THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE

Episode Date: July 22, 2022

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Baby, we've located ourselves. Here we are. This is exactly where and when we are. Okay. This is going to be a movie. We're going to do a movie that you all picked on the poll. Good job. And thank you. Good job.

And thank you. Good job. And thank you to you. And okay. I know we don't normally do this. I know we don't normally do this bonus episode. We don't normally do. We don't normally do check-ins, but I just, there's,

this is the only episode we're recording today. And so I, I have something I have to get off my chest. What is it? And I have to do it here now. And here's the thing. Okay. Here's the thing.

This week I went to, with my dear friend, Sammy, a 4D movie. I knew it was gonna be this this week i went to a 4d movie and here's the thing here's the thing you you listeners you've heard you've heard sammy talk about 4d movies you've heard her say is the most fun somatic experience she's ever had you have heard you have heard us say how much we gotta do it gotta do that 4d movie wow what fun

what fun and i i'm sorry sammy i gotta say i hated it i had a counterpoint i had a feeling she was suspiciously quiet after the movie i was quiet because i i was saving it for the pot i was doing what you do and i was saving it for the pod. I... Wait, which movie? Which movie did you see? Which movie? We saw Thor...

Love and Thunder, right? That's Thor, Love and Thunder. The newest Thor release. I gotta say, Thor was a bad movie for it. I feel like anything with a lot of fight scenes kind of sucks. Oh my god. Oh my god because i also enjoyed it less top gun was much more fun because it was more of just the like it pushing

you back type of thing like it feeling like you're accelerating oh and just kind of twirling but the fights because the seat punches you and it really rocks you around i've been like oh 40 movie fun it like moves you around a little bit like Like, no, no, no, no, no, no. I had to like hold myself. I was sitting next to Joel. You can spill things. Your popcorn can fly out of your hands. We were sitting.

Oh, my God. I was sitting next to Joel. How long was the movie to? It was probably three hours long. Two hours, two hours, two hours. Thank God. It was only two hours. OK, that's not so bad.

But I hated it and i knew immediately that joel hated it too the first time we got jostled and i like grabbed him on the seat and we i we i also like to be fair i it made me laugh so hard i was like laughing so hard i was crying but then i like joel said boy really, really considered just getting out of his seat and sitting on the stairs next to it for the whole movie. You should be able to turn it off. You should have the option of like turning your chair off. You should.

And you can't. And you can't. Because it's like moving back and pulling you back part is like fun. But yeah, during the fight scenes and any action sequence, it's not only is it punching you, it's jostling you side to side in like the crazy. It's truly just like like you're just like and you have no control over it. I couldn't tell you. I didn't pay attention to the movie at all. I don't know what happened in that movie. I didn't watch the movie. Didn't watch it. Don't know what happened. Don't know if I liked it.

what happened in that movie. I didn't watch the movie. Didn't watch it. Don't know what happened. Don't know if I liked it. No idea. I, but I know that I hate 40 movies and I don't know that I will. I don't, I don't know that I'm given another chance. I'm sad to hear it. I'm devastated. I know I'm real. I really am sorry, but man, oh man, I fucking hated it. Well, I'm glad you gave it a shot. I'm sorry. You didn't love it as much as I do It's okay I do agree that it was a worse time than Top Gun was, obviously How could it not be? Obviously

But I will continue to go to 4D movies until the day I die I think that's absolutely great And I'm so thrilled that our friend, your friend Josh Likes them as much as you do so that you can continue to do that with him and not with me. Well, I know that in the past I got just another little thing to throw in here, a separate topic, but another little catching up thing. I know I've previously talked a big talk about not having any wisdom teeth but i lied i have one oh my goodness wow thank you for coming cleve and it's been bothering me and it's because the tooth has been bothering you or the lie the huge lie the tooth the tooth okay uh the lie sits fine with me i wouldn't have i wouldn't have revealed it if it wasn't if i wasn't currently in pain oh no so it's been hurting and i think it's because i had a tooth

dream the other night which i think i was like grinding hard or something and it bled into my dream but also there is some tooth stuff in this week's movie oh no and so I think this goddamn movie gave me a tooth dream that then made my wisdom tooth hurt my single wisdom tooth wait hurt in like what way though?

I don't know it just like feels sensitive the gum around it feels sensitive like you might need to get it out like it's pushing well it's already in it's like fully in your mouth right like it feels sensitive the gum around it feels sensitive like um you might need to get it out like it's pushing well it's already in it's like fully in your mouth right like it's above the gum no it's under gums no it's under the gums because sometimes they say if you have an if you don't have one to match it that's why you have to get it taken out because it doesn't have anything to like meet its pressure you know right so it can cause like more pain or problems that way but i just don't know.

It sometimes hurts and then stops hurting. So let's pray that it stops again. Let's pray that it stops. If not, I'll go to the stupid dentist. Actually, I love my dentist. Shout out Dr. Chong. He's the best. Do you have a good dental experience? But let's talk about the movie that our patrons chose for us to talk about today, which is The Exorcism of emily rose here we go the first movie i think with one of our names in the title oh my god i also say this movie has been nearly chosen so many times in the past almost three years like this has been a near a near recap many many times times and thrilled for Emily Rose that

she has finally made it. She's finally made it. She finally won the freaking poll. This movie came out in 2005. It was directed by Scott Derrickson, which I had no idea. He is the director of Sinister and The Black Phone.

Oh my god. I had absolutely no idea that he directed this. What a clink-a-dink. Sinister was 2012, so this was seven years before that. It was written by Scott Derrickson and Paul Harris Boardman. It is starring Jennifer Carpenter, Tom Wilkinson, J.R. Bourne, Campbell Scott, Mary Beth Hurt, and Laura Linney. Laura Linney. Oh, weird cast. Jennifer Carpenter. She's from Dexter. Yep.

Okay. She's great in this. I think she is. Is she Emily Rose? Yes. Oh, fun. She's very, very good. Her performance is very unsettling.

And I knew like very little about this movie other than the title. It says a lot in the title. Sure. Sure. Yeah. I'm excited for this just because I'm probably going to hate it. But it's been a long time since we've done like a demon-y horror, supernatural type. You know, we've been doing, I don't know, there's other kinds of movies. Yeah.

And this feels like classic. You know, this feels like a return to form. That's right. It has a 44% on Rotten Tomatoes, 46% on Metacritic, 6.7% on IMDb. Can't budge that IMDb score. And okay, its budget was $19 million and it made $145.2 million. Pretty good success. Scott Derrickson, good for you. Good for you. Some trivia is that Jennifer Carpenter's audition was so convincing and scary that the director decided to cast her right then on the spot. Whoa.

Which I feel like that feels rings untrue to me. Yeah. It definitely does. I mean, maybe in his head he thought, oh, I'll cast her. But I'm sure he didn't actually cast her in that moment. That's how that works. But yeah, perhaps he was like, well, that's we found her. Yeah, that's done. Yeah.

A lot of the trivia was surrounding Jennifer Carpenter's ability to kind of contort her body in unsettling ways and just that scott derrickson also originally planned to do a lot of vfx work to make her scarier but then dialed it way back because jennifer carpenter was just really good at doing scary things with her voice and body. Wow. What a talent. I know. Oh, it's based on a true story, did you say? Yes. Sorry. Is that a spoiler? No, the true story is real gnarly.

And I think, yeah, let's talk about it at the end. Okay. Okay. This is interesting to say, but this movie made me believe in demons less. Interesting. I wonder how I'm curious to know what that thought process is. Okay. People really love this movie and people think it's, it's very, very scary.

Okay. I thought it was both bad and not scary. Really? Yeah. I was really shocked. I think if I had seen it in 2005, absolutely. It would have rocked my world. I would have been terrified. Okay. Cause it's, it's well-made and again, Jennifer Carpenter's like so good in it and scary, but there were a lot of things that weren't working for me and we'll get into all of it. But I was, yeah, I was surprised. I, I was really,

I think it was also really in the mood to like get really scared and that might've put a little too much pressure on it. Yeah. And it's been, it has been recommended so much that it's, and it's been top of mind for so long that maybe your expectations were really high. My expectations were high and I, I just, sadly it didn't deliver. I mean, it has a 44 on Rotten Tomatoes, so I guess some people also agree with me. Some people did. Did you watch it at night? Was it spooky? Spooky outside?

Yes. Half of it. I had to finish it in the morning. I fell asleep. I was so bored. Oh my god! That's a scathing takedown. Truly. To fall asleep in the middle of a horror movie is pretty bad.

I know. So yeah, I'm sorry listeners that think this is like a very, very scary good movie. I don't deny that probably at a certain time this was one of the scariest movies. But for me, that's just not the truth. At this moment in time. It's interesting how these movies are always about, like, the priest or these ancillary characters around the person who's actually the

victim. You know? It seems like it's like a courtroom drama. Well, because they'd be an unreliable narrator, because they're possessed by a demon. Right. Well, interesting, interesting. But I would kind of like to know her POV on everything, too. Yeah. I'm curious an unreliable narrator because they're possessed by a demon right well interesting interesting but i would kind of like to know her pov on everything too yeah curious about about emily rose's story no you're absolutely right and this plays like courtroom drama that's my main problem with it

it is uh it's a procedural it's mostly in court and it's so boring oh weird and the real story that it's based on is absolutely fucking terrifying and like much scarier and it just seems like are you gonna tell us that now or after i'll tell you at the end okay okay okay i'm really curious about that let's get into this movie we'll get through uh the slightly more boring courtroom procedural version and we'll end with a tasty actually scary true story tasty delicious morsel of a disturbing story that's right Let's get into it. Oh boy. To hear the rest of this episode, head on over to our Patreon at patreon.com

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