WHEN SFX COMPELS DIRECTOR David Gordon Green to leave the sound mixing stage while completing work on The Exorcist: Believer (“I’m in the basement hiding out from all the screams and sounds!”), he’s being faced with one of the toughest decisions in movie horror history – where to drop his Tubular Bells.
“The iconic theme! We’re just at that point where we’ve got to figure out when and how to use something that’s that powerful. It’s a psychology, you don’t just slap it on the whole movie, you’ve got to use it for its muscle, right? So my brain is a little bit spinning with some of those decisions today.”
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At least it’s just his brain and not his entire head. This is, after all, a new chapter of one of the greatest movies of all time.
“It’s a specific type of subgenre of horror, not just your blanket horror film,” Green explains. “For me, it’s a great canvas to be able to explore spirituality and parenthood and this day and age. Of how we’re able to take things like demonic possession and relate them to mental illness or addiction, or somethose themes through something that I think is an entertaining vessel for conversation, if that makes sense.
