What the corpus says about The Exorcist

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Exorcist and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about The Exorcist and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:58:02 · unknown (0.40)] The Exorcist ↔ Jurassic World · programming · Exorcist 2 could fold into a locust-themed Patreon series with The Reaping and Days of Heaven. · "The reaping, Days of Heaven, Jurassic World..."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:34:48 · unknown (0.30)] The Exorcist ↔ Psycho · programming · The Exorcist beat Psycho in the horror region; the hosts want to do Psycho too. · "He came down to Exorcist and Psycho, which personally, I was very pleased with."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:20:00 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] The Exorcist ⇒ The Exorcist III (the host's read) · lineage · Blatty directed Exorcist III after the horror show of Exorcist II. · "after the horror show that happened with Exorcist II, directed Exorcist 3"
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:25:38 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] The Exorcist ⇒ The Exorcist III (the host's read) · lineage · Blatty returned to the world of The Exorcist thirteen years after the second film, with the original's evil. · "William Peter Blatties, you know, returned to the World of the Exorcist with a lot of the original kind of evil of the 1st one."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:57:41 · unknown (0.40)] Final Destination ↔ The Exorcist · verdict · Final Destination beat the Exorcist by 15 votes in the Patreon bracket. · "Final destination one by 15 votes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:07:24 · David Sims (0.50)] The Exorcist ↔ The Shining · prestige horror · Compared as prestige horror with major actors based on a bestseller. · "That's a similar thing where it's like prestige horror with major actors based on a bestseller."
[pairs] The Exorcist ↔ The Exorcist III · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:19:46 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Chris Ryan ↔ The Exorcist III · programming · Pick 18 (round 6), category sequel: Among the great horror movies; Blatty directing. · "Well, I'm going to be selecting Exorcist 3."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:10:50 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] F1 ↔ Final Destination · theme · Sonny's likeliest death would be a Final Destination-style distraction on the track. · "Final destination and shit."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:39:43 · Mallory Rubin (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Jurassic World · craft · CGI animals pull it out of the film into Jurassic World 6. · "I was like, okay, so we're just like in Jurassic World 6."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:59:13 · unknown (0.40)] Psycho ↔ Bates Motel (TV) · programming · A Psycho series could include Psycho 4 and all five seasons of Bates Motel. · "And we would do all 5 seasons of Bates Motel, right?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:31:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep uses grown-up Danny and a new generation, Abra Stone. · "Using a familiar figure from the original film in Danny, the grown up Danny"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:20:35 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] The Exorcist III ↔ Wild at Heart · craft · Exorcist III has scenes about 8 percent stranger than usual Hollywood horror, like Wild at Heart. · "There are some scenes and some ways of doing things in this movie that are like 8% stranger, than your usual Hollywood horror movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 1:04:32 · unknown (0.40)] RoboCop ↔ Psycho · programming · Robocop has one good covered movie and three bad; Psycho offers more to discuss. · "it is one good movie we have covered and 3 bad, whereas Psycho, it's like, there's a lot of interesting shit there."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:03:31 · David Sims (0.90)] Stephen King ↔ The Shining · lineage · The film is a Kubrick film King hated, which sits under the whole project. · "trying to do the thing Stephen King hated"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:46:08 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Psycho · lineage · Pamela's killer-mom, recalls Norman Bates and Mommy Dearest. · "Pamela kind of reminds me of going even back to like Manchurian, Canada, or like Mommy Dearest"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:12:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep is the sequel to Kubrick's The Shining, which is the whole sell and the whole problem. · "You're doing a sequel to The Shining."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:40:31 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Psycho · lineage · Killing Travolta halfway through is compared to Janet Leigh dying in Psycho. · "there are a lot of moments in this movie that remind me of Psycho"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:09:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Stephen King ⇒ The Shining (the host's read) · lineage · The film is the second Stephen King novel adaptation, after Carrie. · "This is the 2nd Stephen King film adaptation."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Psycho · lineage · Panic Room is to Fight Club as Psycho is to North by Northwest: a small, single-location B movie after a big sprawling one. · "But really it's like, it's Hitchcock doing Psycho right after North by Northwest."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:58:43 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep is the sequel to The Shining. · "Dr. Sleep, the sequel to, which I feel like is actually a better movie"
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:29:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Psycho ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Killing off Kristin Scott Thomas's star-billed character early mirrors Psycho killing Janet Leigh. · "it's completely Hitchcocky and it's killing Janet Lee after 40 minutes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 2:06:41 · David Sims (0.45)] The Shining ⇒ Bobby's World (TV) (the host's read) · lineage · The Bobby's World opening of Bobby on a big wheel is called an homage to The Shining. · "And it's so clearly has to be an homage to this"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 1:18:07 · Matt Singer (0.35)] Psycho ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Charles Dance's shower-curtain death is read as Fincher's own 'Hitchcock moment', after a cast member said Fincher called it that; the Psycho identification is the speaker's. · "Fincher would talk to him about his influence and be like, well, this is my Hitchcock moment."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 2:14:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep has to pay some homage to Kubrick while following a novel whose author hates the film. · "it has to thread paying some homage to Kubrick"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 2:26:19 · David Sims (0.40)] The Shining ⇒ Ready Player One (the host's read) · lineage · Ready Player One has a fun sequence set in the hotel. · "Ready player one, they go to the hotel."
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with The Exorcist; name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Exorcist itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.