William Peter Blatty
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Oct 29, 2026
Chuck MisslerHOST
It can be an entanglement with the occult.
Chuck MisslerHOST
And by the way, the reason I brought up the William Blatty thing, I may not have mentioned it.
Chuck MisslerHOST
The William Blatty story, The Exorcist, and it was built on a true case study.
Chuck MisslerHOST
What started that sequence of events was the little girl playing with the Ouija board.
Chuck MisslerHOST
Here's a piece of plywood with a thing, and I mean, come on.
EleanorHOST
And on that note, I think the author...
EleanorHOST
William Peter Blatty makes a cameo in this scene, depending on the version you get.
EleanorHOST
And he is like playing a producer or something and comes up and asks the director a question.
EleanorHOST
So he's got a cameo in the movie that he wrote.
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CharlieHOST
It is self-harm or assault.
EleanorHOST
Yeah.
EleanorHOST
And I'm not sure if maybe in the novel that this movie is based on, if William Peter Blatty used the term masturbation and maybe that's why it's in it.
EleanorHOST
I did not get to read the novel to prep for this episode.
Adam KempenaarHOST
But this also gets to the conflict between Josh, I think he's interesting, and I wonder how you kind of feel about this.
Adam KempenaarHOST
You may not be aware of it at all, but there's been, for a long time, I think they've now gotten over it, but there was a conflict for a long time between Friedkin and William Peter Blatty, who, of course, wrote the book and wrote the screenplay.
Adam KempenaarHOST
He was someone who was much more a man of faith and had a little bit of a crisis of faith, but went through this process and wrote the book and the screenplay and has now come out the other side of that.
Adam KempenaarHOST
But he hated Friedkin because Friedkin, among other things... cut out a key scene that eventually played in the director's cut or an extended cut later.
EB JohnsonHOST
And no film better demonstrates this, perhaps, than The Exorcist.
EB JohnsonHOST
The Exorcist made its debut in 1971, not as a film, but as a bestselling book by William Peter Blatty.
EB JohnsonHOST
The novel swept the country like a firestorm, thanks in part to its loose basis on a quote-unquote true story from 1949 that involved a 14-year-old boy in Maryland becoming possessed and being exorcised.
EB JohnsonHOST
Vladdy's novel came out at a time when Americans were being forced to reconcile with unimaginable levels of violence, evil and corruption throughout the country.
Peter SaccoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And that's because we've brought some of the coolest ghost stories, including the 1970 poltergeist case.
Peter SaccoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This was way before the famous Exorcist movie came out based on a book by Peter William Blatty.
Peter SaccoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That was very, very true and successful, but sensationalized.
Peter SaccoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The story I have for you was in 1970, police were called to an apartment complex in St. Catherine's, Ontario, Canada.
Chuck MisslerHOST
He was offended by the movie because the movie sort of, in a sense, had Satan win.
Chuck MisslerHOST
And so he was very upset about that, and he did some homework on William Blatty, the author of the book from which they made the movie.
Chuck MisslerHOST
And he was startled to discover that this guy was legitimate.
Chuck MisslerHOST
This guy had done his homework.
AshleyHOST
We are talking about a movie in the horror-thriller genre, and today's movie is The Exorcist III.
MattHOST
Yes, so this came out in 1990, and it was written and directed by William Peter Blatty, who's basically the creator of The Exorcist novels, and I guess franchise, and anyway.
MattHOST
It's based on his novel, Legion.
MattHOST
And it is a direct sequel, basically, to The First Exorcist.
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AshleyHOST
So I thought that was good.
AshleyHOST
Yeah, there's some wonderful set pieces here.
AshleyHOST
You mentioned the nurse scene, Ryan, where we get this long kind of static shot of the hospital corridor and there's not very much interesting happening but then when something does happen it's quite a shock and it's very effective so I think William Peter Blatty does a really good job as a director here Yeah, and the dialogue is unusual in that it's very literate.
AshleyHOST
This movie is very talky.
Jason ZarembaHOST
doing the cast and you guys fill in the blank.
Zac HowardGUEST
Well, it is just crazy that Blatty's original, because he wrote the book and he wrote the script.
Zac HowardGUEST
And his original thought was like, No reveal.
Zac HowardGUEST
Kinderman just decides, fuck it, we'll just kill him.
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TJ NickersonGUEST
It feels like George C. Scott is sort of supposed to
Zac HowardGUEST
represent good.
Zac HowardGUEST
Because you get Blatty's, like, super Catholic, right? So, like, he was, like, upset at Friedkin.
Zac HowardGUEST
Is that who directed the original? Yeah, Billy Friedkin.
JoshHOST
But I like Exorcist 3 a lot.
JoshHOST
So somehow William Peter Blatty already did a better job on his own source material.
JoshHOST
I don't think you can get top.
JoshHOST
Because like you said, the amount of good Exorcism movies, you can probably count on one hand.
Wes CarrollHOST
The Other by Thomas Tryon.
Wes CarrollHOST
William Peter Blatty, by the way, for The Exorcist.
Wes CarrollHOST
Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris, and Tradwife by Sarah Langen.
Wes CarrollHOST
I've only read one of these, and it wasn't Lord of the Flies.
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