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To completely fix Heretic you’d need to peel it riiiiiight back to the opening credits and start all over again.
As for a shocking ending, I’d go with tearing out her evil heart. That’d be pretty funny.
Wait for M.I.K.E. and hatter76, they usually have pretty good ideas.
I’m not that creative so i can’t really come up with anything.
Amidst the “scary” locust swarm, Lamont has a vision of Merrin (like TVYNS has Karras see a vision of his mother) just before sacrificing his life for Blair, Fletcher, Sharon, and the world. This rubs out the obnoxious Lamont character and hints that he “went to heaven”. A truly stupid scenario, but quite in keeping with this truly aberrated film. OTOH, if we’re trying to “fix” the finale based only on juggling/cutting existing footage – forget it. A poison turkey is poisoned in all its parts.
Exactly my point from my earlier post – you can’t fix the end of this film to make it any better because it’s busted from the opening reel.
Yeah, I thought the normally excellent Morricone flopped with this musical score (maybe acting out his rebellion against the obnoxious material?). I thought Regan’s Theme was sweet and melancholy, but for that very reason it was obtrusive amid the junkiness of its surroundings…
My only major advice would be to nix the sappy musical theme; it makes me want to gag… and I love Ennio Morricone, too…! 😐
I’d comment on the two endings/cuts this film has, but I’ve only seen the one on the latest (only?) DVD release.
Be all of this as it may, if I had to rack my brain to find anything else of more substance to consider doing to this ending — while I do feel that Cap is pretty much right on the money — it would be: doing whatever I could to end the film before we see the infamous house we’ve come to know (in the film before and after this one) in ruins. This way, the film can more easily pass as a legitimate sequel (to those who love it) and as an independant filmic creation of its own (to those who don’t).
My two cents. 🙂
*waits for the DOMINION fan cut (above all others)* 😉
M.I.K.E.
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