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BC MARCH MADNESS 2025 - Day 4
🕑 Added 2025-03-04 19:00:07 +0000 UTCI scream, you scream, we all scream for SCREAM! Congrats to Ghostface and Courteney Cox's microbangs for moving on to the next round.
We're continuing with the horror show today with one franchise that confronts DEATH, and the other THE DEVIL.
It's FINAL DESTINATION vs THE EXORCIST.
With Final Destination, we'd cover six films (the next installment is slotted for release this May):
Final Destination (2000)
Final Destination 2 (2003)
Final Destination 3 (2006)
The Final Destination (2009)
Final Destination 5 (2011)
Final Destination Bloodlines (2025)
With The Exorcist, we'd cover six films (Mike Flanagan's installment comes out in 2026, so TBD on that one):
The Exorcist (1973)
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
The Exorcist III (1990)
Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)
The Exorcist: Believer (2023)
So - who's scaring us today?
Comments
Zexyshamen
Coin flip
Good
Exactly
Good
Tie??
Max Birdemic
how is it a tie with an odd number of votes ?
Aoife
1 min to go!!
Noah Cotten
I just happened to check this, I don’t care at all, and I hope something wins by my 1 vote
Dude Face
I just had to add my voice to this crazy battle! Everytime I check, the other one is up 1%
Manton
Especially with an even number of votes there 👀
Michael Curley
I am very excited for the 2pm update!
Chris Almberg
Nailbiter to the end! Come onnnnnnn final destination!
FatDogDad
Bad Final Destination is still fun bad, but bad Exorcist is really bad.
jahr
Excellent point
Dan Warnken
Fun story: first time I ever flew as an adult I was kind of nervous but my sister told me it’d be fine, JetBlue had just installed screens on all the seats and I could watch regular TV and zone out. Get on the plane at JFK and as we’re getting ready to takeoff, I turn the TV on - and, no joke, the channel it was left on was playing the first few minutes of the first Final Destination.
Eric Mahler
Holy dang 50/50
Alex London
Hot take, but the first Exorcist is a strong contender to be the best movie they’ve ever covered on the podcast
Austin Zook
Thank you!!!
Jonathan Gage
Final destination would be so much fun! I want to know Ben's take on the chains featured in the trailer for the new one too
Rad Rodge
This seems like a great summary to me, yeah
John Szolscek
I would love them to do both eventually, but the behind the scenes stories are so insane for most of the Exorcist films that it's gotta be the one
Chris Radicone
Holy shit....
Chris Radicone
Gotta go Exorcist, Final Destination gives me FAR to much anxiety, the first two legitimately frighten me the rest are fun shlock plus I don't want to put David thru the first FD flight.
lil rob
He’s so good. His X-Files episode deserves an Emmy
Joseph Allen
Try to predict how David and Griffin handle schlock. Once it gets too sweaty or redundant with FD, that’s where the gang checks out. Vote for Exorcists for the sake of front to back good episodes.
Joseph Allen
FD is to Crocodile Dundee, as Exorcist is to Alien as a series would go for blank checkers.
Christopher Teuma
Watching it right now. I'd remembered it as a PTSD session with a psychiatrist, which I guess would be normal, but no this sequel to a movie where everyone in the movie might've been insane is ACTUALLY insane.
Christopher Teuma
But the whole idea of The Exorcist gets more and more interesting.
Christopher Teuma
Well you've really fucked The Exorcist with that rule. The The Exorcist? That's what it takes for you to love something?
Christopher Teuma
Around half, at least.
Andrew Carden
Exorcist II has potential for an all-time great BC episode.
John Dog
The one FD I saw was ok fun, whereas there's only 1.5 good movies in the Exorcist series, so...
Owen
I just watched final destination the other day and I was crying laughing at moments, please it would be perfect
Jordan B. Anderson
this'n is gonna be a squeaker
Arthur Robinson
If you all were also going to do a bonus episode on the two seasons of The Exorcist TV show as well, I'd be down, but the Final Destination coverage has so much potential so that gets my vote.
Adam Grzegorczyk
Final Destination is perfect for a commentary. The plot details don't matter and wild shit happens with grandiose foreshadowing
Bobby Harris
I feel like they would do exorcist without March madness votes, so I gotta go final destination
George Kenward Parker
bloodlines had a decent teaser! but i’d be lying if i said it wasn’t giving me a whiff of the latest scream entries.
George Kenward Parker
this
Patrick Orlob
FD would be fun, but the Exorcist is such a weird series that has struggled to find an identity, and would be interesting to hear about.
Dylan Murray
the most exciting race of March Madness so far!
Good
Damn this is a tough one! Looks like another win win 😂 I really love the first two Final Destinations though. The first one is a masterpiece in my eyes. Yeah I’m voting for Final Destination.
Abby May
Choose silence and vote for the exorcist!!
Rachel Milligan
i’m shocked and delighted how close this is!
Flappy McGillicuddy-Jones III
Final D would be boring but funnier
James Heath
Just think of Ben pitching deaths
Patrick Moran
Exorcist would make a far more interesting series, lots of swerves in the franchise. Final Destination would be very boring, is there that much to say about them?
Matthew Farkas
I haven't seen most of the exorcist movies. The first one is damn near perfect. But the Final Destination movies are so stupid and fun that it could be a great series.
Alissa
So few people commenting are using that as the primary criterion for their daily votes that as a new patron I’m concerned I misunderstand the point of this exercise
Max
I'm sure the main bracket is going to go to whatever the most already talked about to death filmmaker there is as has unfortunately become the custom recently, but please just let a fun one win in the patreon bracket.
Percy Leopold Cromwell
I bought the entire Final Destination series on iTunes for Gorley and Rust so that’s my only rationale here
Harrison Cordle
Holy shit, first split
Samuel Mc
Better BTS backstories for Exorcist films, but going "good kill" every 20 mins aint bad either- ultimately Exorcist for me
Dana Hamstra
Really pulling for any horror franchise to win this year
Anthony Regina
Damn a 50/50 split
Taylor Creery
I’ve got Final Destination winning my whole bracket so this is concerning 😂
Andrew Middlebrook
Finally a close race
Samuel Clements
Guys guys guys guys - why is Final Destination losing?
John-Paul
This guy is not me
TimeGentleman
Personally, I'm not voting for which films are better but which I think will garner the more interesting and entertaining podcasts. A set of wildly different great-to-awful movies gets my vote over a set of very similar good movies every time.
Jean-Paul
Nothing is more damning than over five thousand votes of ambivalence
Rad Rodge
Could just about call this battle Glenn
Jeremy Dankowitz
I love a close battle
Josh Burcham
And the new FD is coming soon, we already know the new Exorcist wasn't great
Josh Burcham
Don't forget, Final Destination has only one truly weak entry and has a great ending in 5. Excorsit has two of the great horror films ever but it's pretty boring otherwise. Let's be practical here!
Richard Oren
let jeezpod cast you, let jeezpod cast you let jeezpod cast you
Devin DiMattia
I scream, you scream, we all scream for The Exorcist III!
Njord
The awful Exorcist movies are great discussion pieces!
sheabobay
OH SNAP 50/50 I AM VIBRATING
BethBow
I hope it’s exorcist, purely for 3 I love that shit
Alexander Ball
The Exorcist series has more to discuss. The FD films are a lot of fun but the conversation for each one would basically be “oh fun kill” over and over
Brandon Melling
Agreed. But then again, The Exorcist 3 could be an all-timer episode.
JonK
EX2 is one of the great bug nuts bananas films of the 1970's never boring even if you think its a bad movie. The only reason not to vote for it is to hold on hope for a John Boorman series so they can cover Zardoz and Excalibur as well-- what a run!
Alexander Annand
final destination is fun but it’s not really a series that suits the two friends. Exorcist has more juice
Michael Curley
I strongly believe Scream will beat the winner here, though.
Michael Curley
I keep checking in to see if the tie has broken. 4300 votes and still 50/50. Crazy.
Big Bingus
I need to hear them talk about Exorcist 3, otherwise I’d be voting Final Destination.
Jack Connor
Greatest horror on earth vs. Youtube-tier death videos. Hmm, tough choice.
Aaron Donogh
Half of the Exorcist franchise I would consider unwatchable. Final Destination is fun all the way through even if 4 objectively sucks.
The Real Stevie Lew
Wow, 50 /50 split
Roy Martini
Just rewatched all the Final Destinations. They’re such a good time. 4 is the only ACTIVELY bad one. At least until bloodlines comes out.
jscro
Most of the Final Destination movies totally fuck and there are at least three Exorcist flicks I would never want to submit David and Griffin to much less hear discussed for two and a half hours a piece.
Creighton Budris
Exorcist would be so much more interesting! A huge genre-defining blockbuster, a major disappointment follow-up, a strange and beloved comeback, and then the studio meddling and making/ releasing the same movie TWICE by different directors?! Then a forgettable legasequel, and maybe a good one if Flanagan's comes out in time? C'mon people, there's only one choice here
Patrick LeJeune
Please go exorcist, 3 is so so so good. Brad Dourif deserves to be discussed
Glenn Peters
A lot more Exorcist movies than I thought.
Bill Sweet
Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher and James Earl Jones, soundtrack by Ennio Morricone. The choice is easy.
Rebecca C
I love the final destination series but I wanna hear them talk exorcist III
Bill Sweet
KOKOMU WILL TAKE YOU TO PAZUZU come on, we NEED to hear a discussion of exorcist 2.
Kibblesmith
50/50 at 3600+ votes truly the work of death and the devil themselves
Andrew Dorschner
To me this is the peak set piece of the whole series. It's just incredible. The greatest killer in fiction Death via Rube Goldberg.
Ian Joshua Postman
Gonna be a nail biter
Chris Baiocchetti
Let's go Pazuzu!
Kevin Grow
FD baby
Andrew Dorschner
Recently rewatched Final Destinations 1-4 with 5 on deck for next time I'm feeling like a silly slasher. Exorcist had some big swings and good movies (and insanely bad ones, looking at you Ex 2). I definitely understand the close match.
Carolyn
Let's talk logging trucks
Jeannie
Final Destination for fun kills and more plane crash talk from David!
Adam Goldstein
I chose Final Destination thinking it would be an Exorcist rout, but apparently not! I need to hear thoughts on the car crash in FD2.
Josh Harvey
Exorcist for the tie?
Wyatt Gray
Final Destination is a fun ride no doubt, but I'd love to see the boys try to make sense of the fever dream that is Exorcist Dominion / The Beginning. My vote's going to Pazuzu y'all.
M
Dead even tie right now! Will this be the first vote where people agree with my pick?
Jordan Gibson
Whoa a lot closer than I thought
John Millsap
Really tough, but I love the idea of Ben's comments on the bananas kills in FD
Manish Agarwal
On a knife edge! I voted for The Exorcist: a truly chaotic franchise… 👻🙃
Mireille C
Exorcists, please! I went to a free pre-release showing of Exorcist III and the entire theater laughed at parts of it and I haven’t rewatched it since so I think I have a pretty skewed view of that movie. It has the ONE SCENE that even that audience gasped at, but other than that all I remember of the movie is people laughing. But I’ve never seen any of the FDs, so…
GrrNoise
A hard pick, but i recently watched all the Final Destination movies, and they're not as consistently fun as expected. I voted Exorcist for III alone.
W. Fry
Wait, Mike Flanagan is making an Exorcist movie?!!!
bobbitt15
Final Destination for sure!
Benjamin Nichols
Guys it needs to be The Exorcist no question. We need Griffin to spill the tea on what happened on Believer.
dorium
there's only one truly awful Final Destination movie whereas The Exorcist series has at least 4 of them. Easy choice. Final Destination.
Adam Bruski
Buckle up. This one’s going to be close!
Andy Clark
Can't lose here if you ask me
Michael C
If this were a main feed thing Exorcist. But for a follow along with the film commentary special features recording? FD no contest
Darby Dixon III
it's a trap
Holden Martinson
Elm Street and Final Destination are the peak of set piece-driven horror. We've got one more shot to get this right. Final Destination!
Regis L
Always want more on Exorcist III - an incredible movie.
Matthew Farthing
12 films listed and only 1 is great. Would prefer a Friedkin series, but I'll take what I can get.
James Patrick Dalager
My dudes. There are so many boring and ungood Exorcist movies. At least FD would be fun to talk about.
Chris Miracle
Final Destinations would be so much more fun!
Andy C
Y'all, I recently watched all of the FDs and I'm happy to report they are perfect for commentaries
Olivia Haidar
FINAL DESTINATION
Adam Yencho
Would love to hear the Blank Check boyz talk Exorcist. Especially Exorcist III. Saw it at the Music Box in Chicago last year or so and was blown away by the performances and dialogue.
Jon Nelson
Exorcist II: The Heretic commentary is worth is alone
Spencer Pommier
No I want both
lil rob
Final D just because I love when there’s a titular “THE” sequel
Rory Dunn
The Exorcist films get really, really, really boring after 3. Final Destination baby!
Adam Butterworth
Final Guys and Gals, mount up!
Anthony Oleszkiewicz
FD would make for a better commentary
Josh Rioux
I think the final destination commentaries would be funnier, although the exorcist films are probably stronger on balance
Andrew Wyslotsky
First neck and neck let’s goooo!!!!
Eric Bruns
FD is one of my favorite horror franchises. But an Exorcist series could be fun. All so different and mostly insane
Terry Ballard
The original exorcist would be. A great episode. However I am voting for Ben, I believe Final Destination is what he would want.
Njord
Pazuzu all the way, babyyy!
Zwoozy
Whoever is doing the photo picks for this MM adventure is doing a bang-up job.
TV's Kevin Lanigan
Final Destination is the most consistent horror franchise! And I wanna hear some of the anxiety is spikes from the Two Friends
Miles Lemaire
Exorcist III commentary or GTFO.
miles bolyard
Let Ben talk about the Carnival!
Khar
I’m always for the movies where we can get some 2000s context from the boys
Patrick Engel
I'd settle for Friedkin on the main feed!
