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They are films. the first two absolute classics of cinema from the 60s, the third a more recent piece of abstract (ie. don’t expect to work out what’s going on) Japanese cinema.
Satan’s triangle
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073662/
Genuinely creepy and well worth a watch. Scared the crap out of me when I was a nipper.
It’s hard to find but there is a bittorrent out there.Gay slur, compliment, nope. It was a friendly joke. Having previously defined Karras as resembling John Garfield in Body and Soul where he plays a tough all American boxer who has women fall at his feet, when Karras gives him no help he says he looks like Sal Mineo who whilst still a sex symbol in his heyday, was a pretty boy. Not something a boxer would want to hear.
remember this was written in the late 60s early 70s from the perspective of 2 guys who would have had their heroes defined in the forties and fifties. No self respecting male of that ilk would want to be likened to a short “pretty” model.Those wires were far more visible in the cinema prints than they are on the DVD. I remember well that they were laughed at during the film’s original release and were in fact about the only effects fault people managed to find with the movie. Much like the rubber shark in Jaws it was something the naysayers picked on while the general populace just got on with enjoying the movie.
As Friedkin said, we don’t know what exactly happened in that room, we can only surmise from the sounds heard. He couldn’t film that, it would have been a massive anti climax after all that went before.
So he shows us Karras breaking down and losing it. He didn’t see the girl, he saw only a murderous, foul demon. He attacked it, taunted it, took it into himself and sent it packing with his final sacrifice.
I don’t see anything gratuitous there. Under the circumstances it’s a perfectly valid reaction in my book.It was originally planned for Pazuzu to fully manifest through Regan at the end of the movie. This was the makeup to be used.
John Boorman decided a pretty girl in a negligee was far scarier.
Which says rather a lot about him…Those were opticals done in post production, along with the vomit also an optical as the pea soup did not give the effect friedkin wanted. Copies of the documentation relating to it come up for sale on ebay every now and again.
This shot is Eileen’s face superimposed over the dummy not Linda.If he had been able to force the demon out by strength of will alone then jumping out of the window would have been a pretty daft choice.
