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I bought a cheap copy from a roadside stand in New York City. Nowhere good as an official manuscript, but it’s still neat to have and makes for great bathroom reading.
By the way, I’m new (I was Haibane Renmei a long time ago on the old CH forums). Hi, everyone!
The moment I realized James Earl Jones was in The Heretic, all attempts at taking the movie seriously died horrible, painful deaths.
I wish I could take a clip of the line “If Pazuzu comes for you, I will spit a leopard!” and repeat it over the music track of the second trailer that RatBoy linked to above.
Standing alone, I still consider the Exorcist to be the greatest work of horror of all time, but as a saga, everything after the original except for Legion did not impress me; Heretic was just plain funny, The Beginning was a bad-digital-effects-plot-hole-fest, and Dominion, while it was decent in plot and script was kind of boring for me.
As far as SAW is concerned: I think the first two (I haven’t seen III) are fabulous, but I don’t place them in the horror genre. To me, the SAW series falls into the vein of thrillers like Se7en, Silence of the Lambs, etc.; movies that, while they have scary elements (SAW’s traps, Se7en’s murders, Buffalo Bill’s naked-dance in Silence of the Lambs), they’re more murder-mystery mindfucks than anything else. It’s not really correct, in my opinion, to compare the two, as they fall into different categories entirely.
And I’d be too busy thinking about how hot Shawnee Smith (Amanda in SAW) is to really compare the two, anyway.If you want to compare the Exorcist “saga”, compare it Romero’s “Dead” films, or Ginger Snaps, even Friday the 13th or Halloween, if you prefer. Or Myra Breckenridge (if anyone’s seen it, I’m sure they’ll agree it was terrifying); just make sure you’re comparing it to more closely-related films.
“To find the truth, I’ve even lied.”
-The Rocky Horror Picture ShowSurgeon: “We’ll have to pump your tits with sillicone.”
Myron Breckenridge: “Why not use paraffin?”
Surgeon: “No, no, my boy! That’ll make them inflammable! You don’t want inflammable tits, do you?”
-Myra BreckenridgeUlla: “And at eleven, Ulla likes to have sex! What time should I get here?”
Leo Bloom/Max Bialystock: “Eleven!”
Ulla: “Okie dokie! Ulla wil come at eleven!”
Max: “Ulla come at eleven!”
-The Producers The Movie Musical“We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it being a night of some small energy expenditure.”
-A Clockwork Orange“Redrum!”
-The Shining“It puts the lotion on its skin.”
-The Silence of the Lambs“I fell asleep in a shithole and woke up in an actual shithole.”
-SAW“Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us, but in that inch we are free.”
-V for Vendetta“I said Goddamn!”
-Pulp Fuction“I am Spartacus!”
-Spartacus
