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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jan 29, 2021 18:02:31 GMT -5
Is anyone else here a fan?
I watched Repossessed earlier this month. It’s nuts how much she still looks like her Exorcist counterpart even though this was made roughly 17 years later!
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Post by Legion on Jan 29, 2021 18:24:07 GMT -5
You mother sucks coc......nah, best not
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Post by prettynami on Jan 29, 2021 18:45:48 GMT -5
Oddly enough I've never seen the Exorcist so I only know her from "How To Ger Revenge" - that gag instructional video... And you know, she is so corny I love her in it. So she gets a thumbs up from me.
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Post by Kyle Butler on Jan 29, 2021 19:10:40 GMT -5
She was in one of the craziest episodes of MacGyver, “Jenny’s Chance”
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Post by No Longer a Produceman on Jan 29, 2021 20:12:49 GMT -5
Loved the episode of Supernatural she was in. And The Exorcist is a great movie that still holds up IMO
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 29, 2021 20:22:55 GMT -5
I honestly think she deserved a bit better, but typecasting was a bigger problem at the time. Not that it necessarily stopped or anything, but with so many productions going on at any given time in later years, it became easier to find something else to go do in order to show some versatility.
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Jan 29, 2021 20:26:02 GMT -5
She was also in LA CASA 4, also known as WITCHERY. It's a slow-moving Italian EVIL DEAD-ish horror flick. She and David Hasselhoff are the best parts of it.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Jan 29, 2021 20:31:42 GMT -5
Going to order Savage Streets once I have the spare cash.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Jan 30, 2021 5:44:15 GMT -5
She stole the show in Scream
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Post by pinja on Jan 30, 2021 5:58:43 GMT -5
Did she experience backlash for not doing all of the scenes in Exorcist? As far as I know the crew didn't even come out with it when Blair was nominated for an Oscar. Granted she's a teenager, so she's hardly to blame for it, but did it play a role for her not making it bigger?
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 30, 2021 15:48:37 GMT -5
Appears her drug issues hindered her acting career once the 80s started. Loved her in the various WIP films she made,Savage Streets and piles of other b movies.
Kept hearing for years how she wasn't that nice to people at cons. Met her in 2004ish and she was super nice. Even after I explained how I wasn't a fan of The Exorcist but loved Repossessed.
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Post by HonkyTonkMan on Jan 17, 2024 3:55:20 GMT -5
I've seen so very few of Linda Blair's acting performances. The Exorcist (1973) and Hell Night (1981) are the best movies that I've seen her act in.
Here is the full list of credits from Linda Blair's filmography that I've actually seen.
The Sporting Club (1971)
The Exorcist (1973)
Airport 1975 (1974)
Victory at Entebbe (1976)
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
Hell Night (1981)
Night Patrol (1984)
Savage Streets (1984)
Murder, She Wrote - Season 1 episode "Murder Takes the Bus" (1985)
MacGyver - Season 5 episode "Jenny's Chance" (1990)
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 17, 2024 7:23:56 GMT -5
I've seen so very few of Linda Blair's acting performances. The Exorcist (1973) and Hell Night (1981) are the best movies that I've seen her act in. Here is the full list of credits from Linda Blair's filmography that I've actually seen.
The Sporting Club (1971) The Exorcist (1973) Airport 1975 (1974) Victory at Entebbe (1976) Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) Hell Night (1981) Night Patrol (1984) Savage Streets (1984) Murder, She Wrote - Season 1 episode "Murder Takes the Bus" (1985) MacGyver - Season 5 episode "Jenny's Chance" (1990) Dude can you please stop bumping threads from like 3 years ago?
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Post by Ryushinku on Jan 17, 2024 10:49:33 GMT -5
I've ended up seeing quite a lot of her tv and film work over the years, mostly from late night tv.
The Exorcist is her best and most well-known film, of course. She's very good in Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic, depressing and more obscure as it is. Hell Night would be my pick for second best film of hers, with a likeable turn from her, some quality production value, and a few unexpected subversions of the slasher genre. And Savage Streets is very sleazy (that was Danny Steinmann for you), but entertaining in its trashy revenge flick way.
Those would be my four picks worth watching.
As for the woman herself, I do think it was a time where her misdemeanours were treated a lot more career damaging than they would be today. Bit like Stacy Keach. Blair never really got her career back on track from that, and had the classic problems of translating a child actor career into an adult one. She was in a lot of terrible productions, just putting money on the table.
She seems nice in person, though, and has been extremely committed to animal welfare causes for over twenty years now, and that's real brownie points from me.
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Post by tirtefaa on Jan 17, 2024 11:10:48 GMT -5
All I can remember her for now is that "pranks" video she did back in the 80's with some of the most evil and irrationally over the top "pranks", literally at times trying to ruin someone's life.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jan 17, 2024 11:16:41 GMT -5
All I can remember her for now is that "pranks" video she did back in the 80's with some of the most evil and irrationally over the top "pranks", literally at times trying to ruin someone's life. Wow, I had no idea that existed. For those curious he’s talking about this: m.imdb.com/title/tt0238285/
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Post by An Dog On An Skateboard on Jan 17, 2024 14:08:42 GMT -5
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Post by Duke Cameron on Jan 17, 2024 20:18:20 GMT -5
She used to be hot.
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