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But seriously, 21% answered “yes”! Where are they? Come out, ye rotten, miserable scoundrels! Own up, and receive thy punishment from The Man: http://tinyurl.com/j4lsh
I did not think I would see a remake of a classic horror worse than Bay’s “Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003” so soon. I did now, with this year’s “0men” – “0” being far too high of a rating for this miserable antifilm.
Nice one. I did that with a similar UK TV documentary on the “Omen” series, “The Curse of the Omen”…
It was not released, either, but someone recorded it and, well… http://www.fulldls.com/get_movies_3118
Too bad this Exorcist documentary didn’t make it there… :o)
The first and original entry will and forever remain the best, of course, although “The Final Conflict” is a superb piece of quiet and subtle horror, too, magnificently carried by Sam Neill and Jerry Goldsmith. “Damien II: The Serial Slasher” is, on the other hand, an insult to the series, barely better than that TV pseudosequel “Omen IV”, or the “Omen IV/V” books. Or, needless to say, than the remake is going to be…
Oh, “Saw” was not cliched. Calling this garbage “cliched” is giving it too much of a compliment.
In the recent outbreak of carbuncles that the remakes of classic horrors are, “Saw” was the “original” cancerous growth. The sequel was marginally better, mostly because it was a tweaked version of a completely unrelated script, and because it plagiarised less films than the first “Saw” had done…
“Dominion”. Flawed as it is, it’s superior to “Merrin II: Exorcise Harder”… (Even though there are quite a few scenes which work better and – oh my, oh my – are better directed in “Beginning” than they are in “Dominion” – one “Dominion” scene in particular is so atrociously ridiculous that it would probably be deemed too bad even for a Steven Seagal picture…)
However, not even in Beginning’s case do I really blame the director. Yes, Renny Harlin’s tepid direction is overall rather laughable, as are most of his cliched additions to the plot (most, but not all – a few are actually nothing short of brilliant), his infantile forced references to the original, and some of his cartoon characters (again, however, not all of them – the characterisation of some was actually handled or expanded better by Harlin).
No, the root of all evil is in both cases – as it is so often – the writing. One can make a bad film out of a good script, but one will not make a good film out of a bad script. For all that is wrong, Caleb Carr – who should stick to writing insulting e-mails – is to blame.
As for “Manson” – to whom it may concern… 🙂
http://www.zone.ee/bestfontz/Draftlight.zip
To recreate the logos’ looks, one needs to spell the titles as:
“eXOrcist
the beginning”and
“dOmiNiON
pReQUEL TO THE EXORcisT”🙂
There always are certain possibilities… 😀
However, I would prefer if it could be done once and then kept up for some time, for all those interested… e.g. if someone could, say, set up an FTP for a while, with login info posted on these boards? I could upload it there then and it could remain accessible for other readers…
Until something of the sort, I will have this shared on Soulseek, whenever I’m there 🙂 – search for the track names above, or look for me in Soulseek’s channel #MovieMusic (although I rotate three different logins there – most often, though, I am online as “BentonQuest”)
No, it’s a 15 track promo:
01. Main Title
02. Cairo, 1949
03. Hunted Memories
04. Running Scared
05. The Site
06. Unearth Horror
07. The Face of Evil
08. A Man of Good
09. Violent Atrocities
10. The Blood of Innocents
11. The Ambush
12. See Its True Face
13. Interhamwe Attack
14. Return to His Path
15. End TitleOh, and Manson it was, thanks… 🙂
The original, of course. The castration of the score in the reedit is atrocious, the spider scene and the additional Pazuzu images are pointless and intrusive, and the upbeat, with the cliched quote, creates a clash (“Seytan” has an even happier ending, by the way – “Regan” visits Santa Claus! :P)…
In the pool of urine that are all the post-2000 horror remakes, the Bay Remassacre was a solid object. Solid as in “solid waste”, that is.
Speaking of which, since Omen already got its bastard child, it’s practically inevitable that an insult (“remake”) of “The Exorcist” will go into production very soon. I think much depends on exactly the above… the Omen remake. If it brings in money (and sadly, I have no doubt that it will), I’ll bet The Exorcist will be designated the next victim… and we will start getting used to such pleasant, paid-for quotes as “Dakota Fanning shines as Regan McNeill”, “Marilyn Manson’s music richly illustrates the New Exorcist”, “Casper van Diem’s triumphant return as Father Karras is a true Hollywood Miracle” and, of course, “Tom Welling takes the screen by storm as Father Merrin”…
I have never seen a great horror movie by that title. I did, however, see a cretinous pile of drivel titled “Cabin Fever” two years ago or so. I’ll see if I can find the good one, then… 😛
Damien’s father has many names. His first one, however, was that of the Morning Star.
Oh, wait… the other Damien… 😀
