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Excorcist 3

post #1 of 12
5/22/07 at 9:30am
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After this featured in CHUD's 100 best kills i thought i would check it out. I also heard good word about it from other sources. Is it any good ?
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post #2 of 12
5/22/07 at 9:34am
Supposedly Jeffrey Dahmer's favorite movie!
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post #3 of 12
5/22/07 at 9:58am
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Also, according to Wikipedia:

"Gainesville, Florida, spree killer Danny Rolling watched Exorcist III days before killing five college students in 1990. He later referred to his murderous alter-ego as "Gemini." "

I'll have to check it out!
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post #4 of 12
5/22/07 at 10:12am
Wow! Exorcist 3 makes people crazy.

I haven't seen it in a while, and while I didn't hate it as so many people seem to, I didn't think it was anything that great. Seems to be going through a resurgence the last few years though. It's been a while since I saw it, probably should give it another chance.
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post #5 of 12
5/22/07 at 11:28am
If you can take that giant leap that Father Karras lived in the first film (I can see why not), then I think "Exorcist 3" works well. Also, I think it's Brad Dourif's best work, and considering his resume, that's impressive in of itself.
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post #6 of 12
5/22/07 at 11:35am
Nah, Karras is dead, but his body is possessed by the spirit of the Gemini/Mr-Demon-who-may-just-have-used-the-body-of-the-gemini-to-do-all-that-killin-and-murderin. Since his brain turned to mush from being pummelled by those concrete steps, he's an easy target to take over.

I don't know if that's easier to buy into than "he's still alive after The Exorcist" but the picture is all kind of brilliant. Literate, witty, shocking, inventive, humane and genuinely unsettling.
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post #7 of 12
5/22/07 at 11:53am
It's a very good, but flawed, movie. It really shits the bed in the last reel. And credit should go to George C Scott's excellent unhinged performance.
"I am going... to kill... that fish."
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post #8 of 12
5/22/07 at 11:55am
I don't know if it's Dourif's BEST work (Deadwood, anyone?) -- but it's certainly a performance to be be savored. Very hammy and DRAMATIC and measured.

I can't see why anyone would hate Exorcist III, but like Alex said it ain't the greatest thing in the world. I love Georgey Scott in pretty much anything, but parts of it are quite a slog to get through. Once you get to Dourif acting like there's no tomorrow, old ladies on the ceiling, Jason Miller in contacts and the infamous (and still terrifying) "kill" - you end up with a pretty good, flawed detective thriller, especially for the time period in which it was released.

It's the second best Exorcist film, of course.
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post #9 of 12
5/22/07 at 11:57am
Dourif really hams it up. Not his best work, but better than Chucky.
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post #10 of 12
5/22/07 at 12:36pm
Not the greatest movie in the world, but I still enjoy it. Like Bob said, it does go off the rails a bit toward the end, but until then it really does a good job of building up a creepy atmosphere, and manages to deliver at least two genuinely frightening scares.
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post #11 of 12
5/22/07 at 2:08pm
Best dream sequence ever.

Also, Brad Dourif's Billy Bibbit kicks the crap out of his performance here. He's all sorts of fun when he's hamming it up, but he does his best stuff in straight roles.
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post #12 of 12
5/22/07 at 2:16pm
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Originally Posted by Alex Riviello
Supposedly Jeffrey Dahmer's favorite movie!
I thought that it was the first Exorcist.
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