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Wow! This was a great TRUE sequel to the scariest movie ever made! It had Patton and was genuinely creepy!! George Scott and Brad Doruif STOLE the show! Brilliant
Posted By: caseynight88 at 2:37pm, September 22, 2009
This could have worked just as well, or maybe even better as a standalone. It is not to be compared to the first Exorcist, because it is aimed in a different direction. Approach with caution, and you may just be pleasantly satisfied.
Posted By: CountOrlok at 12:39am, September 12, 2009
A fascinating film.. almost as good as the original. Very creepy death scenes and a weird atmosphere. Brad Dourif, the guy who plays Father Karras and George C Scott are great in this.
Really compelling ideas going on here & it's nice to see some of the original actors return. There's also some really genuine scares in this one, easily the best of the Exorcist sequals.
The hedge clipper scene...of course...is a lesson in how to successfully man a scene that scares the pants off of anyone. Simple stuff, like red herrings and static camerawork, and then BLAM. Even when you know its coming, you scream like a namby pamby.
There is something very unsettling about “The Exorcist III:Legion”. From the dreamlike opening sequence dabbed with disquieting images of Catholic Iconography, the menacing underscored acoustics and Director William Peter Blatty’s unconventional cerebral style this is a sequel which compliments the original extremely well.
Fifteen years after the original events a Psychopath is haunting Georgetown, slaying its victims using Satanic like rituals. The M.O is identical to the long dead “Gemini Killer” who was executed moments before Fr. Karras (Jason Miller) died from his injuries received during the 1973 Exorcism of Regan MacNeil.
When Lt. Kinderman a character from “The Exorcist” (Played here to perfection by the late George C. Scott) is called in to investigate the killings his discoveries lead him to a room in a dark Asylum where a man who looks like Fr. Karras (Miller) but sounds like “The Gemini Killer” (Brad Dourif) admits in detail to all the ritualistic killings and also claims to be possessed by the legion of demons who once possessed the MacNeil child.
But if this is the man responsible for the Georgetown murders how is he leaving the maximum security Asylum.
When I saw this movie in 1990 I was only fifteen. I didn’t appreciate back then its powerful use of intellect and dialogue over the other visceral movies I had been accustomed to like “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and even the original “The Exorcist”. What Blatty gives to us here is a Film that respects the structure and elements of the 1973 classic and is wise enough to not copy its inimitable terrifying sequences.
This movie has its own unique and disturbing images. Moving religious statues, standout murder set-pieces, brilliant demonic performances from Jason Miller and Brad Dourif and a powerfully executed Exorcism finale that although not as powerful as its originator still stands up well to anything that we’ve been offered cinematically since.
this is the movie that made me a horror genre fan. i saw this movie by myself in the theater when i was only 9 years old. i remember vividly the beginning scenes with the church imagery and the doors flying open. The scene that affected me most however is the hallway scene with the nurse. This continues to be one of the scariest movie moments in history. i have never since been so creeped out by a movie in a theater. If the only sequel you have seen is the heretic, please forget about that and give this film a try. Legion is very different from the original exorcist but is definitely just as good.
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