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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?)
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.
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.
Hack as much as humanly possible then cut in all the bug attack footage from Irwin Allens’ Production of the “Swarm”. And add the giant grasshopper glowing over the ruined city from “Quatermass and the pit”
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?
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?
I’m partial to the Wes Craven tv pic “Stranger in Our House” and also “Born Innocent” with the infamous sequence involving rape-by-feather duster. And it was fun to see her pop up in a “Scream” movie. Or “repossessed” if only to see her dressed as an icecream cone crying out “Lick me! Lick me!”.
Lots. Thanks. Can’t find downloads yet but did find a cute “The Exorcist Vs The Antichist” scene for scene comparrison on youtube by GangreneWidescreen. Well worth a look for fans.
Towards the end of “Dominion”, a demonic looking Clara staggers about clutching a butcher knife as the sky vibrates with color. It approximates nicely the best work of Argento in “Suspiria” and for that alone, she gets my vote.
Quite enjoyed “Dominion” and couldn’t agree more that Francis was annoying. Forgave many of the fx as my understanding was the studio bailed on the project at some stage of production and Schraders’ vision was never fully put on screen. I thought it was tasteful and respectful of the original and wondered if the shots of intrusive surgury or rotting baby were inserted by the studio. Not a fan of “The Beginning” although Harlin did manage to braethe some life into the climactic exorcism.
Agreed. At the time, Ebert really was vocal against the slasher genre and decried “ISOYG” as the lowest of the low and yet is an undeniably powerful film. Not unlike the viewing experience watching “Last House on the Left” and to a lesser extent the “Halloween” remake. As dispicable as the subject matter may be, “ISOYG” is well worth a look.
Didn’t antisipate liking the remake by Zombie. While he has taste and knowledge in the horror genre, his earlier pics were far to derivitive and came off as pale imitations. That opening murder sequence involving a young MM beating to death a bullying jerk drew an unusal response from me; empathy. I should have felt nothing for these pretty unlikable charactors and viewed them contextually as slasher movie fodder. It was Zombies’ ability to extract that very personal response and carry thru on it til the end of the picture that elevates this one above the seven movies which proceeded it. It’s not as good a pic as the Carpenter classic but it’s very good. And the stunt casting was brilliant and respectful.
