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17 August 1990 (USA)
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Do you dare walk these steps again? more
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A police lieutenant in Georgetown mourns the anniversary of a priest's death as a serial killer strikes. full summary | add synopsis
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1 win
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Superior sequel
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| George C. Scott | ... | Kinderman | |
| Ed Flanders | ... | Father Dyer | |
| Brad Dourif | ... | The Gemini Killer | |
| Jason Miller | ... | Patient X | |
| Nicol Williamson | ... | Father Morning | |
| Scott Wilson | ... | Dr. Temple | |
| Nancy Fish | ... | Nurse Allerton | |
| George DiCenzo | ... | Stedman (as George Dicenzo) | |
| Don Gordon | ... | Ryan | |
| Lee Richardson | ... | University President | |
| Grand L. Bush | ... | Sergeant Atkins | |
| Mary Jackson | ... | Mrs. Clelia | |
| Viveca Lindfors | ... | Nurse X | |
| Ken Lerner | ... | Dr. Freedman | |
| Tracy Thorne | ... | Nurse Keating |
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Also Known As:
Exorcist 3 (Philippines: English title)
Exorcist III: Legion (USA) (working title)
The Exorcist 3 (USA) (alternative spelling)
The Exorcist III: Legion (USA) (trailer title)
William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist III (USA) (complete title)
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Exorcist III: Legion (USA) (working title)
The Exorcist 3 (USA) (alternative spelling)
The Exorcist III: Legion (USA) (trailer title)
William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist III (USA) (complete title)
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110 min
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Iceland:16 |
Netherlands:16 |
Brazil:16 |
Australia:M |
Canada:18A |
Finland:K-16 |
France:-12 |
Germany:16 |
Ireland:18 |
Norway:18 |
Singapore:NC-16 |
South Korea:18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 (video re-rating) (2002) |
UK:18 (original rating) |
UK:18 (video rating) (1991) |
USA:R
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William Peter Blatty offered directorial responsibilities to John Carpenter. Carpenter turned him down, and Blatty ended up directing the picture himself.
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Plot holes: This film contains two sizable plot holes in relation to The Exorcist (1973). First, in the original, the person who discovers that Regan (Linda Blair) is not speaking a foreign language, but is in fact speaking English backwards, is a white male. In this film, Kinderman (George C. Scott) says that the person who made this discovery was a black female. Second, in the original film, Kinderman and Karras (Jason Miller) had only met each other twice before Karras died. In this film, it is implied that they were extremely close friends who had known each other for years.
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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...
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Referenced in The Bad Boys of Saturday Night Live (1998) (TV)
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Does this film shed any more light on what happened to Regan after Exorcist II?How much sex, violence, and profanity are in this movie?
Kinderman and Dyer hardly spoke to each other in the first film; why are they such good friends in this one?
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With a title like 'Excorcist 3', one doesn't hope for much. But in fact, this film is really only so titled to exploit the value attached with the name, and although it was written (and also directed) by the writer of the original film, it's actually a stand-alone movie in it's own right. And while William Blatty may be hard pushed to rival the efforts of the original's director, William Friedkin, he doesn't do too bad a job: he's a little over-reliant on abrupt cutting to achieve his shocks, and the budget for the special effects was obviously inadequate, but this is a suspenseful and chilling thriller. All supernatural movies suffer from a degree of innate silliness, and satanic movies perhaps especially so, but this film is constructed as if it was a conventional serial killer thriller, albeit an exceptionally dark and creepy one. As the signs of actual devilry begin to increase, the detective leading the case (played brilliantly by George Scott) starts to wonder if he's going mad. Only when the film is forced, near its conclusion, to represent the nightmare literally, does it inevitably become a little daft (but that charge could even be levied at 'The Excorcist' itself). I'm not generally a huge fan of horror movies, but this one is definitely above average, for its skill in modulating the tension and in restraining from excess until its final scenes. In conclusion, ignore the title, and watch.