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The under-rated “Ruby”…”The House of Exorcism”….”An American Haunting”….”The Entity”…..”Audrey Rose”….”The Haunting”
The Haunting (you know which one)…..Carnival of Souls……….The Birds…….Jaws……..Deep Red………Alien……Dead of Night (or Magic)…….Black Sabbeth……..Wes Cravens’ New Nightmare………The Fury
Or….the Catholic church is hot to get their hands on a 2000 year old relic, a Spear which pierced Jesus Christ. It fell into the hands of the occult-loving SS during WWII & unbeknownst to the Vatican, Hitler slobbered all over it. Years later, a minister named Karl (who had a son named affectionately; Gemini) travels into south america with a team of marines led by Kane. With the blessing of the church, they storm a neo-nazi compound & seize the fabled spear. The Vatican then gets a bunch of bio-engineers, bio-tech manufacturers, etc to spend a decade or 2 honing their cloning technique. Eventually, they get lucky and create a boy who may be the re-incarnation of Christ on earth or a clone of Hitler. Then, new murders begin to plague goergetown…some have their heads twisted 180 degrees & all have the MO of Gemini killings. Kinderman investigates. All the victims are the bio-engineers who worked on the clone. One of the victims could be that Cocoa-Puff (was that his name?) guy from Exorcist II who diddled with grasshopper DNA. Anyway, there is a hot lady minister working at the Georetown Universty with troubled kids. Kinderman knew her as a possessed child with a penchant for twisting heads & wonders if RM isn’t up to her old tricks…or maybe it’s one of the kids…could Gemini be inside the cloned boy? It all ends up with a big vomitous exorcism with flying furniture & rowing oars everywhere as the lovely RM seeks to expell Gemini from the boy. Kinderman observes with the fabled Spear in hand wonderling long and hard about sticking it into the boy who might be Christ or might be Hitler. For a nice, Jewish man, that’s quite the delemma. THE END. (Who farted?)
I’m pushing 50, for petes’ sake! What do I care if the people on the tv are so electronically articuated that their eyelashes are countable? Me, I can barely see my face in the morning to shave so I’m not planning to ditch the plain, old dvd collection until such time as HMV ceases to carry them. I have noticed the poor quality on some xbox 360 titles geared specifically towards the next gen tech. THAT may force me to upgrade.
Probably, each evolved independantly. Some fans of the excellent cult series “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” still insist on overt similarities between Darren McGavins’ charactor and Falks’ beloved detective. Each fine actor probably developed their own classic charactor independantlay. Yet casual research reveals “Columbo” existed in media prior to the publication of Blattys’ novel featuring “Kinderman” in supporting role and certainly predates the film by many years.
The possessed child & her murderous shennanigans definately take a backseat to the all-over-the-place performance of Piper Laurie fresh from her oscar nod for Carrie. This is a surprisingly fun and fondly remembered drive-in pic about a haunted drive-in and the possession sequences deliver! I’d pay good money to get this on DVD.
A Nice Lady wakes up one morning to find a vengeful native american medicine man growing on her neck. An uber cheesy exorcist rip loaded with (unintentional?) laughs. It needs a remake.
GangreneWidescreen has a rather funny comparrison of The Exorcist vs The Antichist posted in two parts on youtube. Well worth a look for fans of the genre.
Streisand. “The Exorcist” succeeds in large part to the intensely emotional relationships depicted and the wildly underrated Streisand (as a director) could deliver that in addition to a sumpuously crafted film certain to get oscar nominations.
Does anyone know the name of the tv pic from the mid 70s where during the climactic exorcism the girl spit volumes of nails into the priests’ face. It may have starred someone like Dack Rambo but it’s been so long, who can remember?
One of the truly great films of the 70s. It has a complex conflict of faith storyline as profoundly personal as “The Exorcist” and the film itself was certainly as ‘discarded’ as “The Exorcist III” by its’ studio with reels of footage deliberately dumped in landfill. It’s a remarkable film to see while the Hollywood remake should be avoided. Talk about your pagan sacrifices!
The person who should really be discussing this is Boorman. I can hardly find any significant material beyond a few snippets in recent years where the director admits “EII:TH” simply wasn’t scary and thus no amount of re-editing could save it. There’s a perfectly fine cut of the movie on dvd without any of the extras associated normally with an ‘event’ picture (turned out to be an extinction level event, but even so…). Does anyone know of any resourses out there where a perplexed fan might get a firsthand account of what the heck this guy was thinking?
