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[Contest] Win a Screen-Used Prop From FOX’s “The Exorcist”
He is coming.
We’re now one week away from the return of FOX’s “The Exorcist,” which has just two episodes left in its consistently impressive debut season. The first episode in a two-part season finale will premiere on Friday night, December 9th, and we’re about to arrive at the big moment the season has been building to. Pope Sebastian is coming to Chicago, and very strange things are afoot.
Featured in both Episode 9 and Episode 10 are huge banners announcing the arrival of the Pope for a street parade that the finale will center on, and series creator Jeremy Slater was kind enough to provide us with FOUR of those banners to give away to you awesome BD readers. Yes, these huge vinyl banners are SCREEN-USED, and will be featured very prominently in the finale.
Along with the props, Slater has also donated four of the show’s Comic-Con posters, which will be bundled with the banners to form four giveaway packages for four “The Exorcist” fans!
Here’s Slater showing off one of the banners:
All you have to do to enter is fill out the simple form below. On Monday, December 5th, we will randomly choose four winners, so be sure to get your entries in by the end of this weekend.
Also follow @JerSlater on Twitter, as he’ll be giving away more banners over there!
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George A. Romero Foundation Founder Suzanne Desrocher-Romero Has Passed Away
All of us here at Bloody Disgusting are deeply saddened to learn that George A. Romero Foundation Founder and President Suzanne Desrocher-Romero has passed away.
GARF shared in a statement on socials, “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Suzanne Desrocher Romero. Suzanne passed away of natural causes on June 24 at her home in Toronto after a prolonged illness.”
The statement continues, “Suzanne was the fierce leader of the George A. Romero Estate and The George A. Romero Foundation. She worked tirelessly to preserve George’s legacy. Her work at the foundation will continue to inspire and live on for generations to come. The family asks for privacy at this time.”
Desrocher-Romero founded GARF in 2018, after her late husband’s passing in 2017, and has been a fierce advocate for his legacy and the arts. It was her mission to “strengthen horror as a serious field of global study,” and she was a tremendous fighter on behalf of Romero’s works and supporting new filmmakers inspired by his legacy.
It was Desrocher-Romero who spearheaded the recovery and restoration of The Amusement Park, and, as the person in charge of the George A. Romero estate, worked closely with author Daniel Kraus on completing unfinished novels like Pay the Piper and The Living Dead. She most recently celebrated the restoration of her favorite of Romero’s zombie films, Day of the Dead, and was hard at work producing the upcoming film Twilight of the Dead.
That passionate advocacy led to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero becoming family to Bloody Disgusting as well.
2023 marked the start of an ongoing partnership between Bloody FM and GARF on The Dead, a scripted audio series spanning multiple seasons that saw Desrocher-Romero working closely with the Bloody FM team and mentoring the series’s contributing writers with GARF. To say her loss will be felt internally is an understatement.
“Anytime George Romero is mentioned is good, because what we are doing is to provide a healthy legacy. We’re uplifting his legacy, we’re supporting the archive, and we’re also supporting the Horror Study Center. So, all of these three things are what the Foundation is striving to do. As far as I’m concerned, the more we say George Romero’s name, the better it is,” Desrocher-Romero recently told BD.
It’s the perfect encapsulation of her unwavering enthusiasm for supporting Romero’s legacy and the horror genre, and just a glimpse at how much she contributed to preserving it. She is, in short, an inspiration.
We send our deepest condolences to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero’s family, friends, and GARF.


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