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tonight's feature: Exorcist III (1990) on Shudder
What the Exorcist III lacks in projectile vomit, it more than makes up for it in terms of extended dialogue, conversation and lots of talking. Multiple murders are taking place and for the longest time, we just hear the detectives describing them after the fact, which almost feels like I'm hearing a review of a movie and not actually watching one. Things finally pick up though for even more intense talking scenes and a few genuine frights before a giant blowout of an ending battle.
Lieutenant William F. Kinderman (George C Scott) is a cop who has seen it all, including the Gemini Killer murders. Bodies start turning up suspiciously like the Gemini Killer's victims that have also been injected with precise amounts of chemicals for paralysis, all their blood removed before being decapitated and so on. Well it just turns out that maybe this crazy guy in the psych ward prison is actually Father Karras from the first movie, somehow surviving after being dead and buried and falling down an infamous flight of stairs. Now, possibly, the evil inside him has brought in the spirit of the actual Gemini Killer who frequently inhabits other people's bodies to do all the killing and... he could just inhabit other people, but he's also trapped inside Karras? I mean, he has to use other people but returns to Karras? I'm not sure why that makes sense but they're definitely not going to be able to stop him... or are they?
Overall it was shockingly good for having less action than your typical twisted satanic horror movie. It probably should have been the script for Exorcist II, but I definitely find the first Exorcist to be profoundly more terrifying than either one. 8.5 broken radios in the asylum out of 10.
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