This line always makes me laugh because of the way he says it. He says it all calmly and matter-of-factly like its no big deal. hahaha it's my favorite line. It also proves that this is NOT a spoof of the Exorcist. The Exorcist WAS about possession whereas Audrey Rose is about reincarnation.
"This isn't my house."
"Didn't that movie used to have a war in it?"
"I was saying Boo-urns."
I just finished it. Didn't think it was a spoof, but I think it did rely a lot on the audience either belieiving in or having a real open mind about reincarnation. People were into Eastern mysticism back then, which made the premise of the movie an easier sell then than it is today.
shareI didn't think it was a spoof of The Exorcist either. I saw very little in common with The Exorcist. Other than both films having subject matter dealing with the supernatural, nothing was the same. It was also a very serious movie so if it it was a spoof, it would have comedy. I agree with you. I don't understand the comparisons.
Come, fly the teeth of the wind. Share my wings.
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In a 1977 article "Editing Saves Audrey Rose," the Los Angeles Times mentions a sneak preview version that got unintentional laughs from several scenes, including one that finds our protagonist reading "The Exorcist."
shareRight. A story about a little girl going through some kind of supernatural trauma that's like a mental illness, with scene after scene after scene of her in her bedroom at night and her parents fretting and freaking out, trying to figure out what's wrong and how to help her.
No, nothing like The Exorcist whatsoever, it's TOTALLY DIFFERENT WITH ZERO SIMILARITY AND THE EXECS AT THE STUDIO NEVER SAID IN A MEETING 'HEY DO WE HAVE ANY SCRIPTS LIKE THE EXORCIST CUZ THAT SHIT IS WHITE HOT WITH AUDIENCES THESE DAYS'
Right.
Apparently the movie was based on a huge best-seller and its author also wrote the screenplay. I haven't read the novel, so I don't know whether it was also an Exorcist rip-off.
shareThe timeline doesn't really help AR's case:
The Exorcist book- 1971
The Exorcist movie - 1973
Audrey Rose book - 1975
Audrey Rose movie - 1977
And neither does this: I just googled AR author Frank De Felitta, and apparently before he wrote the AR novel, he made his living by writing scripts based on other people's books i.e. he co-wrote the script for ZPG which was based on the book Population Bomb. And the guy he co-wrote it with, Max Ehrilich, published his own novel The Reincarnation of Peter Proud the year before the AR novel was published. IMO it's really looking like the guy behind AR probably didn't have a single original idea in his head.
Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous. But I enjoy watching this type of horror film from the 70s. And I like Marsha Mason and Anthony Hopkins, but I thought the actress who played the little girl was pretty bad.
shareOh, I totally enjoyed watching the movie too, very nostalgic even though I never saw it until this week. I remember the commercial/trailers back in the day and I was always a little curious. Aside from Mason and Hopkins, John Beck has been a hero of mine ever since I saw Rollerball as a little kid. Poor Moonpie =(
Another one I remember from back then but never saw until pretty recently was Burnt Offerings, that was a good time despite not being the greatest movie ever made.
I also thought John Beck was good in Woody Allen's Sleeper.
Burnt Offerings used to terrify me! That chauffeur guy was so scary! And anything with Karen Black is good.