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A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Shining, and The Exorcist - what have they all got in common? Well, blood, obviously. And gore. And death. But - for the sake of this podcast description - we're going to focus on the fact they've all been adapted into Halloween specials for The Simpsons. For more than 30 years now, the show has been taking the most terrifying and gruesome films of all time, and making them, broadly speaking, family-friendly. In this episode of 5 Minutes On, BBC journalist Will Chalk sits down with the writer of this year's episode, Cesar Mazariegos, to find out how it's done.
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