15 years ago, Damien
Karras (Jason Miller) fell down a flight
of stairs while doing an exorcisim and
was reported dead.
A lieutenant and a close friend of
Karras' named Bill Kinderman (George C.
Scott) who saw him falling down the
stairs does some researching on these
murders and tries to find out if Karras
is still alive. But he is haunted by the
powerful force of a Gemini killer named
James Venamun (Brad Dourif) wherever he
goes including when he tries to find out
whether Karras is alive or not.
He discovers that people are turning up
dead in a hospital and when he tries to
talk to suspects he also discovers that
the other senior citizens there reacts
strangely at the hospital and so do the
employees there.
Bill is still trying to investigate the
killings and who is doing them as James
has posessed priests, doctors and even
uses old women as suspects and continues
to go on his killing spree using other
people's bodies.
Bill tries to put a stop to all this
before him, his family and other innocent
people are harmed and killed.
Apparently this
film ignores part 2 as this one deals
with a serial killer who was executed the
same night of the exorcism in the first
film with the girl Regan.
There was some neat effects like a woman
crawling on a ceiling at a hospital and
having the film look totally dark with
demonic forces.
It's got a great strong plot and really
makes up for the previous fabricated
sequel too with lots of inensity and
great special effects and plenty of
action paced sequences.
The acting is in
terrific shape as we have veteran actor George
C. Scott playing a tough as nails
lieutenant as he usually plays these type
of roles in numerous other shows. He
performes a terrific character with his
aggressions.
It's nice to see Jason Miller
back as Damien Karras from the first film
too. He doesn't have much to say in this
film but you basically know what he's
been up to regardless.
Supporting actress Nancy Fish
plays a good possible suspect as a nurse
showing her expressionless emotions
towards Scott's character.
But the best actor out of them all is no
other than horror film veteran Brad
Dourif as the Gemini killer proving
he can out do his Chucky role in Child's
Play. He shows great intense
aggression with his screaming voice and
terrific expressions too. He truly knows
his craft as an actor.
Close to the end a
priests skin is peeled off a ceiling with
flesh ripping and exposing his brain.
William Peter
Blatty is back and a good thing too.
He does terrifically well with his
direction like in the first one with good
angle shots and hallucinations with the
people posessed like Mary Jackson's
scene when she is crawling on top of the
ceiling incident etc.
He directed Jackson terrifically
in her supporting role as a disturbed and
eccentric quiet old lady
His best direction was with Scott and
Dourif in the cell together showing
their reactions towards one another as it
is very intense and disturbing too.
He shows shots of great lightning effects
and ghostly presences too.
A real crazy scene he directed was the
elderly people behaving strangely in the
hospital when Scott's character
arrives.
Blatty can also make you jump
too with his work in certain scenes.
Barry
De Vorzon composed superbly with all
the sounds going on in the film
especially the humming and the chanting
choir making it truly effective and
suspenseful.
No one else could do a better job than
him.
Dt.
Kinderman: My wife's mother is visiting,
Father, and Tuesday she's cooking us a
carp. It's a tasty fish, I'm not against
it. But because it's supposedly filled
with impurities, Mary's mother buys it
alive, and for three days now it's been
swimming in my bathtub. Up and down.
Cleaning out the impurities. And I hate
it. I can't stand the sight of it moving
it's gills. Now, you're standing very
close to me, Father. Have you noticed?
Yes. I haven't had a bath in days. So I
never go home until the carp is asleep.
I'm afraid that if I see it while it's
swimming, I'll kill it.
Kanavan:
Try and make a good confession, and
remember, Christ forgives all our sins.
Penitent: Only little things. Nothing.
Seventeen of them, Father. The first was
that waitress in Candlestick Park. I cut
her throat and watched her bleed. She
bled a great deal. It's a problem I'm
working on, Father. All this bleeding.
Mrs.
Clelia: My radio. Aren't you going to fix
it? Nothing ever gets fixed round here.
Just a whole bunch of pies and anchovies.
Go away. I don't ever talk to strangers.
Dt. Kinderman: I'm the radio repairman,
Mrs Clelia.
Mrs. Clelia: Well then, fix it.
Dt. Kinderman: What's wrong with it?
Mrs. Clelia: Dead people talking. It's
right here. Do you see it?
Dt. Kinderman: Yes. I see it.
Mrs. Clelia: I just knew you weren't
really a radio repairman. That's a
telephone I'm holding.
Patient
X: I still hear from her occasionally,
screaming. I think the dead should shut
up, unless there's something to say.
Patient
X: Well, there I was so awfully dead in
that electric chair. I didn't like it.
Would you? It's upsetting. There was
still so much killing to do, and there I
was, in the void, without a body. But
then along came - well - my friend. You
know. One of them. Those others over
there. The cruel ones... the Master. He
thought my work should continue. But in
this body. This body in particular, in
fact. Let's call it revenge. A certain
matter of an exorcism, I think, in which
your friend Father Karras expelled
certain parties from the body of a child.
Certain parties were not pleased, to say
the least. The very least. And so, my
friend, the Master, he devised this petty
scheme as a way of getting back, of
creating a stumbling block, a scandal, a
horror to the eyes of all men seeking
faith, using the body of this saintly
priest as an instrument of, well, you
know - my work. But the main thing is the
torment of your friend Father Karras as
he watches while I rip and mutilate the
innocent, his friends, and again, and
again, on and on! He's inside with us!
He'll never get away! His pain won't end!
[Abruptly calm and composed]
Patient X: Gracious me. Was I raving?
Please forgive me. I'm mad.
Patient
X: I have dreams... of a rose, and then
of falling down a long flight of steps.
Patient
X: You again. You've interrupted me.
Well... come in, Father Morning. Enter,
knight. This time you're going to lose.
Patient
X: It's the smiles that keep us going.
The bits of giggles and good cheer.
The
Gemini Killer: I like plays. The good
ones... Shakespeare... I like Titus
Andronicus the best; it's sweet.
Incidentally, did you know that you are
talking to an artist? I sometimes do
special things to my victims: things that
are creative. Of course, it takes
knowledge, pride in your work... For
example, a decapitated head can continue
to see for aproximately twenty seconds.
So when I have one that's gawking, I
always hold it up so that it can see its
body. It's a little extra I throw in for
no added charge. I must admit it makes me
chuckle every time. Life is fun. It's a
wonderfull life, in fact... for some.
Father
Dyer: I only told him the truth.
Stedman: What did you say?
Father Dyer: Jesus loves you, everyone
else thinks your an asshole.
Father
Dyer: (On the film 'It's a Wonderful
Life') I've seen it 37 times.
Dt.
Kinderman: That's commendable.
The
Gemini Killer: I kill at random... no
motive... that's the fun.
Dt.
Kinderman: This I believe in... I believe
in death. I believe in disease. I believe
in injustice and inhumanity, torture and
anger and hate... I believe in murder. I
believe in pain. I believe in cruelty and
infidelity. I believe in slime and stink
and every crawling, putrid thing... every
possible ugliness and corruption, you son
of a bitch. I believe... in you.
Father
Dyer: May the schwartz be with you.
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