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Release Date: 03 February, 2004 Retail Price: $9.97 OUR Price: $9.97 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: Complete Cast (21 total) |
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The Devil's Blitzkrieg!
Let's break out the Holy Water and crucifix, don our sacred vestments, run through the Liturgy of Exorcism, and get medieval on "Exorcist 3: Legion": is this a movie worthy of carrying the mantle of what many call the scariest movie ever made, or does it cry out to be exorcised of cinematic mediocrity?
Fear not: "Exorcist 3" is a lush and haunting creepshow that boasts original "Exorcist" author William Peter Blatty in the director's chair, crisp cinematography by Gerry Fisher ("Highlander", "Wolfen"), and a spooky score that knows when to get low-key. Add to that George C. Scott in the role of Detective Lt. Bill Kinderman, a crusty cinephile brought back to those wickedly steep Georgetown steps when a serial killer slaughters and mutilates two priests and a young boy---brutal killings that are particularly baffling when police recognize the brutal signature of the infamous Gemini Killer---but the Killer died 15 years ago, and the fingerprints suggest the murders were carried out by three separate killers.
Blatty's direction and a fine ensemble cast makes "Exorcist 3" a worthy successor to the original which manages to bury the silliness of "Exorcist2", and best of all the film ratchets up the terror. "Exorcist3" is not afraid to take chances, and while not the grand opera that Friedkin's original is, for my money it is far more terrifying and infinitely creepier.
This time the Devil is finished messing around with random adolescents and has decided instead to launch a blitzkrieg against the morally weak and feeble minded. The mixture of forensic weirdness and supernatural strangeness brings Kinderman back together with old friend Father Dyer (the society priest from the original, now contrite and played effectively by Ed Flanders), and by the time the credits roll even Father Damien Karras has put in an appearance, joining Old Scratch to make "Exorcist 3: Legion" a reunion of sorts!
"Exorcist 3" is monstrously entertaining and genuinely scary. Blatty has a remarkable flair for taking his well-crafted set-pieces and milking them for every ounce of spooky atmosphere: from Kinderman's audience in a Bishop's shadowy office, to the antiseptic cell-block housing a mysterious lunatic, to a hospital wing which features one of the most terrifying sequences in movie history, Blatty is in total control of his medium, using sound effects, actors' faces, and the film's lurking and creepy soundtrack to crank up the terror.
And you get so many other fine little nuggets here, including: a typically tasty turn by the great Brad Dourif as the Gemini Killer; cameos by Fabio Volpe, Samuel L. Jackson, and even former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop; Colleen Dewhurst as the strangled voice of Satan; and a painful scene in which a Catholic priest is turned into a human refrigerator magnet. Ouch!
Like its worthy predecessor "The Exorcist", "Exorcist 3" is a superbly directed spookshow about modern men wrestling with the silence of God, mortal terror, and the problem of Evil. But unlike Friedkin's original, Blatty seems less concerned with bile and gore, and far more interested in figuring out what happens when Man stares too long into the face of Evil. There are fates worse than Death.
Uh, It Was..... Wierd.
OK Just for a warning. I just finished watching this movie, so maybe my opinion isn't the best. I usually watch a movie and don't like it, but then when I watch it again I like it. However, I don't want to watch this one again. I found it quite boring and it unfortunately departed from the story set by The Exorcist and Exorcist 2 The Heretic. To be perfectly honest, I LOVED the 2nd film, and I think this one should have followed where that one ended. But, William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist 3 goes in a completely different direction. Not like Halloween 3 Season Of The Witch (which I loved), but it doesn't have Kitty Winn, or Linda Blair, and that's unfortunate.
The film begins confusing enough (only to get more confusing in the end) with some weird "Dream Sequence" and then goes on so that we can meat Lt. William Kinderman (George C Scott), the officer who knew Father Karras (Jason Miller). It is now the 15th anniversary of Karras' death, as he fell out a window while exorcising little Reagan. Kinderman begins to investigate a handfull of deaths that are in the exact same way "The Gemini Killer" murdered his victoms. Meanwhile, there's a paitient in room 11 who looks just like Karras, and claims to be The Gemini Killer. The movie then starts to fade as "The Gemini Killer" starts babbling about rturning from the dead and it all gets very confsing just to lead to a dissapointing conclusion.
...the moment it began, I got bored and went to take a nap (a 3 hour one) and the next day I watched THE WHOLE THING. Despite my hearts protests to turn the movie off and ditch it. Well, after watching it, I thought "Wow. The biggest waste of time movie EVER. And I just watched it". Well, I haven't gained anything from watching it as I did watching the firstand second.
If you ACTUALLY DID enjoy William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist 3, I'd recomend the first and second film, as well as the Omen Trilogy.
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