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keefriff99
The third one was decent, with Jason Miller returning as Father Karras and George C. Scott replacing Lee J. Cobb as Lt. Kinderman.
That's right! Totally slipped my mind that Blatty actually wrote and directed the third Exorcist.Quote
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keefriff99
The third one was decent, with Jason Miller returning as Father Karras and George C. Scott replacing Lee J. Cobb as Lt. Kinderman.
At least Blatty lived long enough to see the restoration to its proper shape of this one. He wrote and directed it but the stdio execs butchered it before its theater release.
Late last the director's cut was released on bluray:
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dmay
Director Martin Scorsese said of "Exorcist II: The Heretic", that it was one of his top five bad movies of all time. You gotta see it to believe it. Hopefully, the Devil is not saying hey to Mister Blatty.
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Hairball
His book inspired one of the creepiest movies I've ever seen.
My mom didn't want to see it based on the reviews when it was released (and stories of audience members freaking out), and was upset at my dad for taking my older sister and I.
Being 11 years old, I was frozen in my seat and scared to death... ...my Mom was right, we shouldn't have been allowed to see it at that young age!
To this day I still like to watch it on occasion, and it's still a bit creepy, but my wife refuses to watch it.
I remember watching pt. II on cable back in the early '80s with friends - it was actually funny it was so bad.
RIP Mr. Blatty - you had quite an imagination.