Tracy Letts

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The Big Picture · The Best Movies About Filmmakers, and ‘Boorman and the Devil’ · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

I will say I was...

I was quite struck by the influence Exorcist 2 must have had on Italian horror.

There's a whole world of Italian horror that seems to borrow pretty heavily from this movie, from Exorcist 2.

Well, what specifically are you thinking of?

Well, I'm thinking about the climax of Exorcist 2 primarily.

Mm-hmm.

The kind of grand operatic gestures of the house breaking apart and the plagues of locusts and screaming into the wind, which happens a lot

mother trilogy,

And all that kind of stuff.

It's almost like these Italian filmmakers are horror nerds, and they went to the video store, and Exorcist was checked out.

So they just checked out Exorcist 2 and

That's it.

That's the shit.

That's what we

you know, the documentary talks a bit about some of the other Hollywood disasters in which directors were really given free reign and given a lot of money, and some of them went way over time, and some of them went way over budget.

And so...

right after Heaven's Gate, which we acknowledge is kind of the end of new Hollywood, all of that starts getting pulled back and it really becomes the time of the executive and of

studio.

as far as I'm concerned, it's why 80s and 90s filmmaking, studio filmmaking starts to go in the shitter because you can watch some of those movies from that period and go, that's not a filmmaker making that decision.

That's a studio note.

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