Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Episode Will Pay Tribute to the Exorcist
With the fall season about to take hold, Netflix original series and Riverdale spin-off The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is drawing ever closer to its October release date.
However, rather than be a traditional television series, Entertainment Weekly reports that, according to series creator and showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina will be closer to a series of TV episode-length mini-movies. Additionally, Aguirre-Sacasa has confirmed that one of these episodes/mini-movies will take inspiration from the iconic horror film The Exorcist (just in case fans needed a reminder that this new series was going to be a very different beast than the old, comedy-oriented Sabrina the Teenage Witch series.)
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“I love The Exorcist. It’s one of my favorite movies,” said Aguirre-Sacasa. “We’re doing an homage to that; we’re doing an episode that’s like [The Exorcist].”
Released in 1973, The Exorcist is a supernatural horror film revolving around the unrelenting demonic possession of a young girl that was met with a fair bit of controversy upon its release, but has since been regarded as one of the true classics of the horror genre. In other words, it sounds like someone in Greendale is going to have a rather nasty run-in with an evil spirit in some way or another by the time the new series is through.
Given that Riverdale is also well-known for taking inspiration from and, in fact, naming their episodes after classic films, it comes as no surprise that Chilling Adventures of Sabrina will follow suit. And it will certainly be interesting to see what cues the show will take from The Exorcist, as well as what other popular horror films served as inspiration for the show’s first season.
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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina stars Kiernan Shipka as Sabrina Spellman, Michelle Gomez as Mary Wardwell/Madam Satan, Jaz Sinclair as Rosalind Walker, Chance Perdomo as Ambrose Spellman, Lucy Davis as Hilda Spellman, Miranda Otto as Zelda Spellman, Ross Lynch as Harvey Kinkle and Richard Coyle as Father Blackwood. The series premieres on Netflix on Oct. 26.