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
Coin flip
Zexyshamen
2025-03-06 02:53:52 +0000 UTCExactly
Good
2025-03-05 19:28:40 +0000 UTCTie??
Good
2025-03-05 19:28:30 +0000 UTChow is it a tie with an odd number of votes ?
Max Birdemic
2025-03-05 19:27:07 +0000 UTC1 min to go!!
Aoife
2025-03-05 18:58:00 +0000 UTCI just happened to check this, I don’t care at all, and I hope something wins by my 1 vote
Noah Cotten
2025-03-05 18:41:45 +0000 UTCI just had to add my voice to this crazy battle! Everytime I check, the other one is up 1%
Dude Face
2025-03-05 18:36:21 +0000 UTCEspecially with an even number of votes there 👀
Manton
2025-03-05 18:07:49 +0000 UTCI am very excited for the 2pm update!
Michael Curley
2025-03-05 17:42:28 +0000 UTCNailbiter to the end! Come onnnnnnn final destination!
Chris Almberg
2025-03-05 17:32:28 +0000 UTCBad Final Destination is still fun bad, but bad Exorcist is really bad.
FatDogDad
2025-03-05 17:28:52 +0000 UTCExcellent point
jahr
2025-03-05 17:25:28 +0000 UTCFun 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.
Dan Warnken
2025-03-05 17:18:53 +0000 UTCHoly dang 50/50
Eric Mahler
2025-03-05 17:13:53 +0000 UTCHot take, but the first Exorcist is a strong contender to be the best movie they’ve ever covered on the podcast
Alex London
2025-03-05 17:01:56 +0000 UTCThank you!!!
Austin Zook
2025-03-05 17:00:22 +0000 UTCFinal 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
Jonathan Gage
2025-03-05 16:49:00 +0000 UTCThis seems like a great summary to me, yeah
Rad Rodge
2025-03-05 16:44:48 +0000 UTCI 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
John Szolscek
2025-03-05 16:37:56 +0000 UTCHoly shit....
Chris Radicone
2025-03-05 16:20:26 +0000 UTCGotta 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.
Chris Radicone
2025-03-05 16:19:08 +0000 UTCHe’s so good. His X-Files episode deserves an Emmy
lil rob
2025-03-05 16:07:18 +0000 UTCTry 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
2025-03-05 14:52:07 +0000 UTCFD is to Crocodile Dundee, as Exorcist is to Alien as a series would go for blank checkers.
Joseph Allen
2025-03-05 14:39:49 +0000 UTCWatching 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
2025-03-05 14:14:20 +0000 UTCBut the whole idea of The Exorcist gets more and more interesting.
Christopher Teuma
2025-03-05 12:32:35 +0000 UTCWell you've really fucked The Exorcist with that rule. The The Exorcist? That's what it takes for you to love something?
Christopher Teuma
2025-03-05 12:31:22 +0000 UTCAround half, at least.
Christopher Teuma
2025-03-05 12:23:59 +0000 UTCExorcist II has potential for an all-time great BC episode.
Andrew Carden
2025-03-05 12:07:34 +0000 UTCThe one FD I saw was ok fun, whereas there's only 1.5 good movies in the Exorcist series, so...
John Dog
2025-03-05 11:48:49 +0000 UTCI just watched final destination the other day and I was crying laughing at moments, please it would be perfect
Owen
2025-03-05 07:18:41 +0000 UTCthis'n is gonna be a squeaker
Jordan B. Anderson
2025-03-05 04:38:45 +0000 UTCIf 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.
Arthur Robinson
2025-03-05 04:22:32 +0000 UTCFinal Destination is perfect for a commentary. The plot details don't matter and wild shit happens with grandiose foreshadowing
Adam Grzegorczyk
2025-03-05 03:28:05 +0000 UTCI feel like they would do exorcist without March madness votes, so I gotta go final destination
Bobby Harris
2025-03-05 03:12:59 +0000 UTCbloodlines 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
2025-03-05 03:11:19 +0000 UTCthis
George Kenward Parker
2025-03-05 03:09:26 +0000 UTCFD 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.
Patrick Orlob
2025-03-05 03:07:52 +0000 UTCthe most exciting race of March Madness so far!
Dylan Murray
2025-03-05 02:54:50 +0000 UTCDamn 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.
Good
2025-03-05 02:36:54 +0000 UTCChoose silence and vote for the exorcist!!
Abby May
2025-03-05 01:52:19 +0000 UTCi’m shocked and delighted how close this is!
Rachel Milligan
2025-03-05 01:40:52 +0000 UTCFinal D would be boring but funnier
Flappy McGillicuddy-Jones III
2025-03-05 01:31:57 +0000 UTCJust think of Ben pitching deaths
James Heath
2025-03-05 01:25:52 +0000 UTCExorcist 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?
Patrick Moran
2025-03-05 01:05:11 +0000 UTCI 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.
Matthew Farkas
2025-03-05 00:54:18 +0000 UTCSo 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
Alissa
2025-03-05 00:53:45 +0000 UTCI'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.
Max
2025-03-05 00:07:18 +0000 UTCI bought the entire Final Destination series on iTunes for Gorley and Rust so that’s my only rationale here
Percy Leopold Cromwell
2025-03-04 23:38:29 +0000 UTCHoly shit, first split
Harrison Cordle
2025-03-04 23:34:50 +0000 UTCBetter BTS backstories for Exorcist films, but going "good kill" every 20 mins aint bad either- ultimately Exorcist for me
Samuel Mc
2025-03-04 23:24:44 +0000 UTCReally pulling for any horror franchise to win this year
Dana Hamstra
2025-03-04 23:20:27 +0000 UTCDamn a 50/50 split
Anthony Regina
2025-03-04 22:40:13 +0000 UTCI’ve got Final Destination winning my whole bracket so this is concerning 😂
Taylor Creery
2025-03-04 22:25:05 +0000 UTCFinally a close race
Andrew Middlebrook
2025-03-04 22:24:52 +0000 UTCGuys guys guys guys - why is Final Destination losing?
Samuel Clements
2025-03-04 22:21:50 +0000 UTCThis guy is not me
John-Paul
2025-03-04 22:16:33 +0000 UTCPersonally, 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.
TimeGentleman
2025-03-04 22:02:55 +0000 UTCNothing is more damning than over five thousand votes of ambivalence
Jean-Paul
2025-03-04 22:01:43 +0000 UTCCould just about call this battle Glenn
Rad Rodge
2025-03-04 21:47:27 +0000 UTCI love a close battle
Jeremy Dankowitz
2025-03-04 21:31:36 +0000 UTCAnd the new FD is coming soon, we already know the new Exorcist wasn't great
Josh Burcham
2025-03-04 21:11:36 +0000 UTCDon'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!
Josh Burcham
2025-03-04 21:10:42 +0000 UTClet jeezpod cast you, let jeezpod cast you let jeezpod cast you
Richard Oren
2025-03-04 20:49:36 +0000 UTCI scream, you scream, we all scream for The Exorcist III!
Devin DiMattia
2025-03-04 20:45:47 +0000 UTCThe awful Exorcist movies are great discussion pieces!
Njord
2025-03-04 20:34:20 +0000 UTCOH SNAP 50/50 I AM VIBRATING
sheabobay
2025-03-04 20:29:34 +0000 UTCI hope it’s exorcist, purely for 3 I love that shit
BethBow
2025-03-04 20:29:12 +0000 UTCThe 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
Alexander Ball
2025-03-04 20:25:06 +0000 UTCAgreed. But then again, The Exorcist 3 could be an all-timer episode.
Brandon Melling
2025-03-04 20:12:42 +0000 UTCEX2 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!
JonK
2025-03-04 20:12:21 +0000 UTCfinal destination is fun but it’s not really a series that suits the two friends. Exorcist has more juice
Alexander Annand
2025-03-04 20:09:24 +0000 UTCI strongly believe Scream will beat the winner here, though.
Michael Curley
2025-03-04 20:08:58 +0000 UTCI keep checking in to see if the tie has broken. 4300 votes and still 50/50. Crazy.
Michael Curley
2025-03-04 20:08:07 +0000 UTCI need to hear them talk about Exorcist 3, otherwise I’d be voting Final Destination.
Big Bingus
2025-03-04 20:07:54 +0000 UTCGreatest horror on earth vs. Youtube-tier death videos. Hmm, tough choice.
Jack Connor
2025-03-04 20:02:37 +0000 UTCHalf of the Exorcist franchise I would consider unwatchable. Final Destination is fun all the way through even if 4 objectively sucks.
Aaron Donogh
2025-03-04 20:00:47 +0000 UTCWow, 50 /50 split
The Real Stevie Lew
2025-03-04 19:57:14 +0000 UTCJust rewatched all the Final Destinations. They’re such a good time. 4 is the only ACTIVELY bad one. At least until bloodlines comes out.
Roy Martini
2025-03-04 19:50:41 +0000 UTCMost 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.
jscro
2025-03-04 19:49:54 +0000 UTCExorcist 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
Creighton Budris
2025-03-04 19:49:45 +0000 UTCPlease go exorcist, 3 is so so so good. Brad Dourif deserves to be discussed
Patrick LeJeune
2025-03-04 19:48:45 +0000 UTCA lot more Exorcist movies than I thought.
Glenn Peters
2025-03-04 19:46:50 +0000 UTCRichard Burton, Louise Fletcher and James Earl Jones, soundtrack by Ennio Morricone. The choice is easy.
Bill Sweet
2025-03-04 19:44:04 +0000 UTCI love the final destination series but I wanna hear them talk exorcist III
Rebecca C
2025-03-04 19:43:45 +0000 UTCKOKOMU WILL TAKE YOU TO PAZUZU come on, we NEED to hear a discussion of exorcist 2.
Bill Sweet
2025-03-04 19:42:28 +0000 UTC50/50 at 3600+ votes truly the work of death and the devil themselves
Kibblesmith
2025-03-04 19:41:31 +0000 UTCTo me this is the peak set piece of the whole series. It's just incredible. The greatest killer in fiction Death via Rube Goldberg.
Andrew Dorschner
2025-03-04 19:40:41 +0000 UTCGonna be a nail biter
Ian Joshua Postman
2025-03-04 19:39:27 +0000 UTCLet's go Pazuzu!
Chris Baiocchetti
2025-03-04 19:38:16 +0000 UTCFD baby
Kevin Grow
2025-03-04 19:37:43 +0000 UTCRecently 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.
Andrew Dorschner
2025-03-04 19:36:51 +0000 UTCLet's talk logging trucks
Carolyn
2025-03-04 19:28:54 +0000 UTCFinal Destination for fun kills and more plane crash talk from David!
Jeannie
2025-03-04 19:25:45 +0000 UTCI chose Final Destination thinking it would be an Exorcist rout, but apparently not! I need to hear thoughts on the car crash in FD2.
Adam Goldstein
2025-03-04 19:22:57 +0000 UTCExorcist for the tie?
Josh Harvey
2025-03-04 19:22:50 +0000 UTCFinal 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.
Wyatt Gray
2025-03-04 19:22:27 +0000 UTCDead even tie right now! Will this be the first vote where people agree with my pick?
M
2025-03-04 19:20:34 +0000 UTCWhoa a lot closer than I thought
Jordan Gibson
2025-03-04 19:20:31 +0000 UTCReally tough, but I love the idea of Ben's comments on the bananas kills in FD
John Millsap
2025-03-04 19:19:29 +0000 UTCOn a knife edge! I voted for The Exorcist: a truly chaotic franchise… 👻🙃
Manish Agarwal
2025-03-04 19:18:52 +0000 UTCExorcists, 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…
Mireille C
2025-03-04 19:18:49 +0000 UTCA 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.
GrrNoise
2025-03-04 19:17:46 +0000 UTCWait, Mike Flanagan is making an Exorcist movie?!!!
W. Fry
2025-03-04 19:16:48 +0000 UTCFinal Destination for sure!
bobbitt15
2025-03-04 19:15:13 +0000 UTCGuys it needs to be The Exorcist no question. We need Griffin to spill the tea on what happened on Believer.
Benjamin Nichols
2025-03-04 19:13:31 +0000 UTCthere's only one truly awful Final Destination movie whereas The Exorcist series has at least 4 of them. Easy choice. Final Destination.
dorium
2025-03-04 19:13:14 +0000 UTCBuckle up. This one’s going to be close!
Adam Bruski
2025-03-04 19:11:26 +0000 UTCCan't lose here if you ask me
Andy Clark
2025-03-04 19:10:34 +0000 UTCIf this were a main feed thing Exorcist. But for a follow along with the film commentary special features recording? FD no contest
Michael C
2025-03-04 19:10:32 +0000 UTCit's a trap
Darby Dixon III
2025-03-04 19:10:31 +0000 UTCElm Street and Final Destination are the peak of set piece-driven horror. We've got one more shot to get this right. Final Destination!
Holden Martinson
2025-03-04 19:08:43 +0000 UTCAlways want more on Exorcist III - an incredible movie.
Regis L
2025-03-04 19:08:41 +0000 UTC12 films listed and only 1 is great. Would prefer a Friedkin series, but I'll take what I can get.
Matthew Farthing
2025-03-04 19:08:33 +0000 UTCMy dudes. There are so many boring and ungood Exorcist movies. At least FD would be fun to talk about.
James Patrick Dalager
2025-03-04 19:08:29 +0000 UTCFinal Destinations would be so much more fun!
Chris Miracle
2025-03-04 19:07:46 +0000 UTCY'all, I recently watched all of the FDs and I'm happy to report they are perfect for commentaries
Andy C
2025-03-04 19:07:27 +0000 UTCFINAL DESTINATION
Olivia Haidar
2025-03-04 19:07:25 +0000 UTCWould 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.
Adam Yencho
2025-03-04 19:07:18 +0000 UTCExorcist II: The Heretic commentary is worth is alone
Jon Nelson
2025-03-04 19:06:36 +0000 UTCNo I want both
Spencer Pommier
2025-03-04 19:06:24 +0000 UTCFinal D just because I love when there’s a titular “THE” sequel
lil rob
2025-03-04 19:06:23 +0000 UTCThe Exorcist films get really, really, really boring after 3. Final Destination baby!
Rory Dunn
2025-03-04 19:05:47 +0000 UTCFinal Guys and Gals, mount up!
Adam Butterworth
2025-03-04 19:05:27 +0000 UTCFD would make for a better commentary
Anthony Oleszkiewicz
2025-03-04 19:05:16 +0000 UTCI think the final destination commentaries would be funnier, although the exorcist films are probably stronger on balance
Josh Rioux
2025-03-04 19:05:13 +0000 UTCFirst neck and neck let’s goooo!!!!
Andrew Wyslotsky
2025-03-04 19:04:45 +0000 UTCFD is one of my favorite horror franchises. But an Exorcist series could be fun. All so different and mostly insane
Eric Bruns
2025-03-04 19:04:18 +0000 UTCThe original exorcist would be. A great episode. However I am voting for Ben, I believe Final Destination is what he would want.
Terry Ballard
2025-03-04 19:04:13 +0000 UTCPazuzu all the way, babyyy!
Njord
2025-03-04 19:03:54 +0000 UTCWhoever is doing the photo picks for this MM adventure is doing a bang-up job.
Zwoozy
2025-03-04 19:03:18 +0000 UTCFinal Destination is the most consistent horror franchise! And I wanna hear some of the anxiety is spikes from the Two Friends
TV's Kevin Lanigan
2025-03-04 19:03:13 +0000 UTCExorcist III commentary or GTFO.
Miles Lemaire
2025-03-04 19:02:58 +0000 UTCLet Ben talk about the Carnival!
miles bolyard
2025-03-04 19:02:45 +0000 UTCI’m always for the movies where we can get some 2000s context from the boys
Khar
2025-03-04 19:02:23 +0000 UTCI'd settle for Friedkin on the main feed!
Patrick Engel
2025-03-04 19:02:18 +0000 UTC
