The Exorcist III
The storyline takes a back seat to mood and effect, and the ending is weak, but if you like movies that scare you and/or creep you out, don’t miss it.
This story is sic in 1990 , 15 twelvemonth after Regan MacNeil was possessed by a fiend . Lieutenant William Kinderman ( play by George C. Scott ) is investigating a series of brutal and bizarre execution whose victim all seem to be linked to the Regan MacNeil case . The specific of the killing point forthrightly to the Gemini Killer . The near news is that the bull experience who the Gemini Killer is ; his name is James Venamun ( played by Brad Dourif ) . The bad news program is that James Venamun was executed years ago . Many of the specific of the original Gemini killings were never publicized ; in fact , some particular were advisedly falsify in the medium to avoid mistaken confessions . But to Kinderman ’s astonishment , this sea wolf gets all the details flop , even the ones that were n’t revealed to the populace . Is it possible that James Venamun was n’t really the Gemini Killer after all ? ( Movie cliché # 744 : " This grampus knows details that only therealkiller could sleep together ! " )
Things really take a bizarre turn when Kinderman ’s booster , Father Dyer ( played by Ed Flanders ) , is hospitalized with a mystic illness . ( moving picture cliché # 836 : Sick people always cough , regardless of their affliction . ) Soon after his price of admission to the hospital , Father Dyer is found murdered , with all the blood drained from his body and placed into several rows of drinking glasses so carefully that not even one drop was spilled . Kinderman find enough evidence to point to one of the other patients in the hospital , but he is appalled to chance out that it ’s a gaga old fair sex who ca n’t stand up without assistance . How can such a frail honest-to-goodness lady commit such a brutal murder without spill so much as a drop of blood ?
It does n’t take Kinderman very long to conclude that something really weird is happening . His investigation quickly lead him to the high - security measures " disturbed Aaron Montgomery Ward " ( handily locate in that same infirmary ) . I was almost carry Hannibal Lecter to be in one of those cells , but no such luck . What Kinderman does find is a nameless , secret patient who seems to know quite a flake about the execution . As questioning as Kinderman is , he starts to distrust that there is an " other - worldly " effect taking over some of the affected role at that infirmary . The problem is , even if he ’s correct , how can he stop more slaying from get hold of post ?
One fit that really frustrated me was betimes in the movie . The head from a statue of Christ was find at one of the execution scenery . A piffling later , Kinderman is getting on an lift at the infirmary , and he walk right past a statue of Christ with the head missing . He does n’t even mark it . A well - regarded pig with decades of experience does n’t notice something like that ? ! As soon as I see that , I almost fall out of my chair .
The overall mood of the flick is dark and creepy . In this esteem , Blatty does an excellent job . He ’s shamefaced of a few " red herring " that somewhat insult the looker ’s intelligence , but they ’re not plentiful by any means . Blatty also seems to understand a construct that very few theatre director have ever been able to grasp . What makes a movie scary is not what you show ; it ’s what youdon’tshow . There is very little bloodshed or violence ( i.e. most slaying victim are covered by a sheet so we ca n’t see them ) , so your imagination is forced to hightail it baseless just when you wish it would n’t . The melodic score by Barry De Vorzon is very well done . It does what a musical score should – it makes a shivery movie even scarier and puts an extra chill in your spine .
Overall , I found this film very effective for scare . I found it scarier than the original , but the original had a much better plot line . Some of the cast will confuse people who have seen the original ( i.e. the actors who play Kinderman and Father Dyer are not the same citizenry who played them in the original ) , but if you may get past that , it ’s fairly entertaining . This is not the skillful in theExorcistseries ; the pilot still earns that distinction . But if you desire to see something truly scary , you ca n’t go wrong with this one .
The Exorcist III is a supernatural horror film written and directed by William Peter Blatty. Set over a decade after the events of the original Exorcist film, The Exorcist III Follows Lieutenant Kinderman as he investigates a murder that shares similarities to a killer who was executed fifteen years earlier - and a patient at a local psychiatric ward claims to be that same man.
