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10 August 2005 (Belgium)
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Years before Father Lancaster Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil's soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa. Merrin's initial battle with Pazuzu leads to the rediscovery of his faith. full summary | add synopsis
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Paul Shrader's exorcist
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Stellan Skarsgård | ... | Father Lankester Merrin | |
| Gabriel Mann | ... | Father Francis | |
| Clara Bellar | ... | Rachel Lesno | |
| Billy Crawford | ... | Cheche | |
| Ralph Brown | ... | Sergeant Major | |
| Israel Aduramo | ... | Jomo | |
| Andrew French | ... | Chuma | |
| Antonie Kamerling | ... | Kessel | |
| Julian Wadham | ... | Major Granville | |
| Eddie Osei | ... | Emekwi | |
| Ilario Bisi-Pedro | ... | Sebituana | |
| Niall Refoy | ... | Corporal (Thief) | |
| Lorenzo Camporese | ... | Private (Thief) | |
| Burt Caesar | ... | Dr. Lamu | |
| Marcello Santoni | ... | Dutch Farmer |
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Exorcist: The Original Prequel (USA) (pre-release title)
Paul Schrader's Exorcist: The Beginning (USA) (pre-release title)
Paul Schrader's Exorcist: The Original Prequel (USA) (complete title)
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Paul Schrader's Exorcist: The Beginning (USA) (pre-release title)
Paul Schrader's Exorcist: The Original Prequel (USA) (complete title)
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Rated R for strong violence and disturbing images.
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117 min
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Singapore:NC-16 |
UK:15 |
Ireland:18 |
Germany:16 |
USA:R (certificate #41536) |
Spain:18 |
Netherlands:16 |
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Paul Schrader was originally hired as director of Exorcist: The Beginning (2004), but Morgan Creek ultimately rejected his "psychological thriller" approach, saying it was "commercially unmarketable". The decision was made to extensively rewrite and re-shoot the script, re-cast several roles, add new characters and give the director's chair to Renny Harlin. Schrader's version was originally supposed to be released direct to video, as a bonus feature on the DVD release of Harlin's version. However, in the wake of Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)'s box office failure, Morgan Creek abandoned this idea, allowing Schrader to present his version at several film festivals, as well as giving it a small scale theatrical release in several countries under a new title (Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist). Schrader's version also received support from William Peter Blatty, who said to The Houston Chronicle that Schrader's version is "a handsome, classy, elegant piece of work."
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Factual errors: In the scene where the flag is being taken down and folded, "Taps" plays in the background. "Taps" is an American military song, and is not played by the British Army. "Last Post" would have been the appropriate music.
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Edited from Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)
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Back to Me
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Why is this called "Prequel to the Exorcist"? I thought "Exorcist: The beginning" was.more
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I was among the lucky ones to see this film in Brussels too. Are you going to like this film or not ? Well it all depends on what you expect. As a horror film fan, for me there is no doubt : no one will ever make a better Exorcist film as William Friedkin's original. They can make 100 more exorcists, the 1st will remain the reference, it was innovating in many ways. Exorcist 2 took its best horror sequences from the first one. Number 3 was a cop movie. Now we have numbers 4 and 5 with the same story and even the same actors sometimes. So where is the difference ? I saw them both but I did not expect to see a better movie than the first. It is probably why I liked them both. So if you prefer horror, well see Harlin's one, it is a decent successor. And if you like Paul Shrader' s movies, I don't think you will be disappointed with his version, witch is softer but deeper. But please, as he said to the public before the film : forget everything you have seen about the exorcist movies before and watch the film with a open mind.