PODCAST: William Friedkin's SORCERER and the Terror of the Unknown

After making the horror masterpiece THE EXORCIST, William Friedkin was at the height of his power in Hollywood. He used that clout to make SORCERER, a movie about the terror of the unknown and the cruel hand of fate. Micah talks about seeing SORCERER for the first time, the many troubles Friedkin and his crew had making the film in South America, and how the COVID19 pandemic is making it difficult to resume film production.

SHOW NOTES

0:21 - Intro
1:52 - William Friedkin, the director of “Sorcerer”
10:08 - “The evil wizard is Fate.”
11:31 - Pandemics and the feeling of fate
16:33 - My initial doubts about the COVID19 pandemic
18:53 - Trouble on the set of Sorcerer, Safety issues in 2020
24:32 - Did Friedkin return from the jungle?
25:47 - How can we shoot without crews getting COVID19?
28:49 - Crew members have been getting sick for a long time.
29:33 - My predictions
30:16 - Why Sorcerer flopped

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