#david friedkin

[rcbertleckie]

masters of the air · part three

[sleepy-hyperfixations]

Curt: If you took a shot every time you thought Bucky was attractive, how drunk would you be?

Brady: Sober.

Hambone: Maybe a bit tipsy?

Friedkin: Drunk.

Blakely: Wasted.

Buck: Dead.

[cacaitos]

CRUISING (1980), dir. david friedkin.

[mysoftboybensolo]

New behind the scenes picture of Freddy Carter from his Instagram story

[onyxsboxes]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Masters of the Air (TV 2024) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Gale "Buck" Cleven/John Clarence "Bucky" Egan Characters: Gale "Buck" Cleven, John Clarence "Bucky" Egan, Harry Crosby, Curtis Biddick, Marvin "Red" Bowman, Everett Ernest Blakely, John Brady (Masters of the Air), Bernard "Benny" DeMarco, Ground crew (Masters of the Air), Howard "Hambone" Hamilton, Joseph "Bubbles" Payne, David Friedkin, Ken Lemmons, Robert "Rosie" Rosenthal, Winifred "Pappy" Lewis Additional Tags: Crack, Background Relationships, Fluff and Humor, Humor, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Summary:

To avoid any incidents, please follow the unofficial rules established at the 100th.

 If you're reading this, Colonel Harding, please forget it exists.

 Or a guide to help new recruits settle into life at the 100th.

[swanimagines]

In case anyone is wondering

Yes, I will write x reader stuff for David Friedkin and you're welcome to request something. He has been dramatized and part of his story has been fictionalized in Masters of the Air + the real David is dead, so that qualifies me to be willing to write for him.

Also since it's Freddy's birthday, chapter 8 of BatBP will be publishing within the next few hours!

[austinbutlermischief]

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[brokehorrorfan]

Mondo will release The Exorcist by Zero and The Changeling by David Seidman tomorrow, February 29, at 1pm EST. They're expected to ship in May.

The Exorcist is a 24x36 screen print with a hidden spot gloss layer, limited to 185, for $80. The Changeling is a 24x36 screen print, limited to 140, for $80.

Read on for statements from both artists.

Zero on The Exorcist:

In creating the poster for The Exorcist, my main inspiration came from the wings of the demon Pazuzu. I was particularly drawn to how these wings, along with other details of the demon, subtly weave through the movie, evident in hidden details even before the plot starts, such as Reagan's crafts with winged animals (sculptures and drawings). I aimed to do something similar in my own piece by incorporating these hidden details or Easter eggs in the poster, along with other interesting elements found in the film.

Seidman on The Changeling:

As an artist whose work is heavily influenced by haunted imagery, The Changeling is a movie that delivers so much through it’s storytelling, atmosphere and visuals. The abandoned antique wheelchair and possessed red ball have become so influential in the horror genre and icons on their own. Using these objects prominently helped me set the scene to perfectly capture the tone and atmosphere of one of my favorite haunted house movies.

[sigurism]

The Exorcist | William Friedkin The Exorcist III | William Peter Blatty The Exorcist: Believer | David Gordon Green

[diueliz]

I love having my little list of directors who are my enemies

[moorheadthanyoucanhandle]

UNBELIEVABLE

Opening in theaters this weekend:

The Exorcist: Believer--Two 13-year-old girls go missing one day after school. Their panicked parents, single Dad Victor (Leslie Odom, Jr.) and evangelical couple Miranda (Jennifer Nettles) and Tony (Norbert Leo Butz) frantically search their Georgia suburb, but three days later the girls turn up alive.

These early scenes of this sixth Exorcist follow-up are tense and gripping, convincingly dramatizing a dread familiar to parents, but also deploying a few well-executed cheap scares. Soon after the girls reappear, they start showing unmistakable signs of demonic possesion. The nonbelieving Victor is skeptical at first, but before long he has enlisted the aid of Chris McNeil (the radiant Ellen Burstyn), who went through a similar experience with her daughter Regan up in Georgetown half a century earlier.

Act Two of Believer is mostly devoted to a rather ecumenical exorcism, with Catholics, Evangelicals and what appear to be Voodoo practicioners all participating, among others. This section falls flat. We get all the obligatory stuff--levitation, projectile tummy trouble--but none of the elliptical yet grueling intensity that the late William Friedkin brought to the 1973 film. Put simply, the second half of the movie just isn't very scary.

Part of what made the first film so potent was its harsh, judgy small-c conservative Catholicism. It seemed to suggest that Chris McNeil's wordly career and single life left the door open for the devil to take her daughter. The new film almost gets this right; it implies that Victor's daughter's yearning to communicate with her dead mom gives the demon a foothold, as Regan playing with a Ouija board invited in "Captain Howdy" back in the original.

But the kum-ba-yah sensibility of Believer's interfaith exorcism weakens this blood-and-thunder atmosphere. Don't misunderstand; I agree, on the whole, with the sentiments expressed in this movie's mild little homilies about faith and community and hope. But I don't think they're the most effective way to scare an audience. Decades ago I had a girlfiend, a lapsed Catholic, who found the original Exorcist so terrifying that she could barely stand to have it mentioned (I used to tease her by imitating the demon's voice).

The new film lacks the ruthlessness that could create that sort of reaction. Nor did I really find it plausible that these staunch traditionalist faiths could practice this archaic rite in harmony. As soon as anything went wrong, wouldn't they start blaming each other?

The director, David Gordon Green, works from a script that he wrote with several hands including Danny McBride. They were the team behind 2021's Halloween Kills, another honorable but unsuccesful revival of a classic horror franchise. The cast here is capable, with one standout--that splendid, always reliable warhorse Ann Dowd as a nurse with a relevant past who befriends Victor.

This much more, if little else, can be said for Believer: although the insolently absurd yet imaginative spectacle of John Boorman's 1977 Exorcist 2: The Heretic has its fascinations, Believer can probably still claim to be the best of the Exorcist sequels. But that's a low bar.

[notesonfilm1]

Eavesdropping at the Movies: 400 – The Nun II and The Exorcist: Believer

Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Google Podcasts, or Spotify. You can also hear our discussion of 2018’s The Nun, and our podcast on The Exorcist, part of our exploration of the oeuvre of William Friedkin. For our 400th episode we indulge in a pair of horror sequels, both heavy on faith, possession, and Christianity. One is part of a modern universe of interconnected stories,…

[mysoftboybensolo]

Freddy Carter as David Friedkin in "Masters of the Air" (x)

[swanimagines]

I am so happy you are posting your other Freddy fics/headcanons, I love them so much. May I ask for a separate kissing headcanon posts for Gideon from The Doll Factory and David Fredkin from Masters of the Air? Thanks!

Hey, please send two separate request asks for this! I do my requests straight to asks to credit the original requester and I can't do this if I don't have an ask for each request. Those posts I made yesterday were actually old fics from a year ago and I no longer have their asks, so I wasn't able to do it like I usually do.

"Hi, may I ask for kissing headcanons for Gideon from The Doll Factory?"

"Hi, may I ask for kissing headcanons for David Friedkin from Masters of the Air?"

And thank you! 💕

// Got them, thank you! And no worries, I know it was probably confusing because I had just spammed fics without the original request, it's understandable you didn't know 😊