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William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist, directed this intriguing, deliberately-paced thriller based on his novel Legion. Ignoring the events of John Boorman's disappointing Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), the film moves ahead 15 years from the end of the original, when Georgetown is being plagued by occult murders bearing signs of the long-dead Gemini Killer, James Venamon (Brad Dourif). Although the killer was executed 15 years earlier, a young boy is horribly mutilated and the ailing
Aug 17, 1990 Wide
Jun 5, 2001
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Exorcist III wields a mighty sword of scares and contemplation, drilling into those primal areas of nail-chewing tension...This film is a humdinger.
I'll call it a noble failure.
Unnecessary sequel to sequel with top cast.
Better than the other Exocist sequels.
Seriously scary in a few spots, but dry and overly verbose for the most part.
For my money, it's everything The Exorcist should have been, but never quite was.
Amazing! A sequel that stands on its own and still creeps me out at times.
If only Blatty would be given the director's chair more often, we would have a lot more truly terrifying movies to choose from.
A number of brutal and ritualistic-type murders that have taken place in Georgetown has police Let. Bill Kinderman, George C. Scott, deeply concerned. Lt. Kindeman was in charge of the "Gemini Killer" serial murder case that happened fifteen years ago and the MO of these killings are identical to that of that long ago
July 2, 2007Super Reviewer
The Exorcist III should have been called by it's original title, Legion, but due to marketing issues, the studio felt that it would succeed more under an Exorcist moniker. Well let me just say it's far superior to the heretic and is a far more creepy and intriguing than the previous film. The cast does a fairly decent
June 9, 2010
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