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Exorcist III (1990)
Country
of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1989
Running Times: 110 mins
Length: 9,882 ft
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound:
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Morgan Creek
Executive Productions: James G. Robinson, Joe Roth
Producer: Carter DeHaven
Associate Producer: Steve Jaffe
Production Co-Ordinator: Judi Rosner
SCRIPT
Script: William
Peter Blatty
Novel: Legion by William
Peter Blatty
DIRECTION
Director: William
Peter Blatty
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Gerry Fisher
Steadicam Operator: David Knox
Additional Steadicam Operator: Rick Tiedeman
2nd Assistant Camera: John Cambria
Additional 2nd Assistant Camera: Rory Robert Knepp
Key Grip: Gene Poole
Best Boy Grip: Logan R. Berkshire
Grip: Kevin Carrico
2nd Unit Gaffer: R. Michael Stringer
Colour: DeLuxe
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Todd C. Ramsay
MUSIC
Music: Barry De Vorzon; Mike Oldfield (from Tubular
Bells)
SOUND
Supervising Sound Editor: Richard L. Anderson
Assistant Sound Editor: Oscar Mitt
Foley Mixer: David W. Alstadter
Sound Effects Recording: Ezra Dweck
MAKE UP AND
COSTUMES
Hair Designer: Cydney Cornell
Costumer: Marina Marit
SPECIAL MAKE UP
EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects: Greg Cannom, William Forsche
(uncredited)
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Dream Quest Images
Visual Effects Supervisor: Mat Beck
Special Effects: Lee Purcell
Special Effects Unit Director: Norman Reynolds
Special Effects Crew: Randy E. Moore
Optical Supervisor: Jeff Matakovich
Animation Camera Operator: Patric Kenly
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Leslie Dilley
Props: Douglas Fox
Construction Co-Ordinator: Jeffrey Schlatter
Property Master: Douglas Fox
Lead Man: John D. Kretschmer
MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Joe Walser
Assistant to Production Designer: Daren Dochterman
Production Secretary: Philip Chidel
LOCATIONS
Locations: Georgetown University, Washington, District of
Columbia, USA; Georgetown, Washington, District of
Columbia, USA
STUNTS
Stunt Double For Nicol Williamson: Dean Raphael
Ferrandini
CASTING
Casting: Lou DiGiaimo
CAST
George C. Scott (Lt Bill Kinderman)
Ed Flanders (Father Dyer)
Brad Dourif (The Gemini Killer)
Jason Miller (Patient X (Father Damien Karras))
Nicol Williamson (Father Morning)
Scott Wilson (Dr Temple)
Nancy Fish (Nurse Allerton)
George DiCenzo (Stedman)
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)
Barbara Baxley (Shirley)
Zohra Lampert (Mary Kinderman)
Harry Carey Jr (Father Kanavan)
Sherrie Wills (Julie Kinderman)
Edward Lynch (Patient A)
Clifford David (Dr Bruno)
Alexander Zuckerman (Korner Boy)
Lois Foraker (Nurse Merrin)
Tyra Ferrell (Nurse Blaine)
James Burgess (Thomas Kintry)
Kevin Corrigan (altar boy)
Peggy Alston (Mrs Kintry)
Bobby Deren (Nurse Bierce)
Jan Neuberger (Alice)
Debra Port (waitress)
Walt MacPherson (police sergent)
David Dwyer (2nd police officer)
Daniel Epper (police driver)
William Preston (old man in wheelchair)
Chuck Kinlaw (attendant)
Demetrios Pappageorge (Casperelii)
Nina Hansen (little old lady)
Shane Wexel (1st dream boy)
Ryan Paul Amick (2nd dream boy)
John A. Coe (old man in dream)
Jodi Long (1st dream woman)
Kathy Gerber (2nd woman in dream)
Samuel L. Jackson (blind man in dream)
Jan Smook (radio man)
Amelia Campbell (young girl in dream)
Cherie Baron (nurse)
Larry King (himself)
C. Everett Koop (himself)
Patrick Ewing (Angel of Death)
Michael Criscuolo (psychiatric patient - uncredited)
Colleen Dewhurst (voice of Satan - uncredited)
Father John Durkin S.J.
Fabio, Jeff Henry, Manley Pope (angels - uncredited)
Randy Aaron Fink (student - uncredited)
John Thompson (himself - uncredited)
Brad Waller (inmate in asylum - uncredited)
PLOT SUMMARY
Fifteen years after the
McNeil exorcism in Georgetown, Detective Kinderman meets
with Father Dyer every year on the anniversary of Father
Damien Karras' death while saving Reagan McNeil from the
demon Pazuzu. This year, though, Kinderman has his mind
on other things - a series of killings has occurred that
bear the hallmarks of The Gemini, a serial-killer that
Kinderman helped to have executed fifteen years ago. And
in the depths of a psychiatric hospital is a man who
claims to be The Gemini Killer, a man with a very
familiar face...
CAPSULE REVIEW
Wisely choosing to ignore the bizarre nonsense
of Exorcist II:
The Heretic (1977), William
Peter Blatty made only his second stab at directing (following
the impressive The Ninth Configuration (1980) with
this stunning adaptation of his own follow-up to the book that made
his name a by-word for the macabre and disturbing throughout the 1970s.
Literate and powerful, Exorcist III is a genre rarity,
a horror film that revels in the power of words, that requires - and
gets - first class performances and which aims more for the head than
for the viscera. A mature and thoughtful film aimed at a mature and
thoughtful audience.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Video Distributors: Fox Video (1901)
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Video Distributor: Fox Video
Laserdisc Distributor: CBS Fox (1901-80)
DVD Distributor: Warner Home Video (17488)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Australia
Rating: M
Finland
Rating: K-16
France
Rating: -12
Germany
Rating: 16
Ireland
Rating: 18
Sweden
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: 18
USA
Rating: R
AWARDS
1991
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films,
USA (Saturn Awards)
Best Writing (William Peter Blatty) - winner
Razzie Awards
Worst Actor (George C. Scott) - nominated
TIMELINE
1989
June
5: USA - production begins
1990
August
17: USA - theatrical release
November
23: UK - theatrical release
1991
January
4: Finland - theatrical release
9: France - theatrical release
11: Sweden - theatrical release
31: Germany - theatrical release
1992
October
Day Unknown: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies)
1999
December
14: USA - DVD release (Warner Home Video (17488))
2001
March
19: UK - television broadcast (on Channel Four)
POSTER TAGS
Do you dare walk these steps again?
Dare you walk these steps again?
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Exorcist III - Legion
Exorsisten - Norwegian title
Legion
Legion - Exorcist III
William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist
LINKS
SEQUEL TO
The Exorcist (1973)
Exorcist II: The Heretic
(1977) PREQUEL
Exorcist: The Beginning
(2004)
SEE ALSO
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
Here Comes Mr Jordan (1941)
It's a Wonderful
Life (1946)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Cinefantastique vol.19 no.5 (July 1989)
p. 12 (USA)
illustrated article (William Peter Blatty turns director by Steve Biodrowski)
Cinefantastique vol.21 no.1 (July 1990)
pp. 13, 60 (USA)
illustrated article (The Exorcist III: Legion by Steve Biodrowski)
Cinefantastique vol.21 no.2 (September
1990) p.21 (USA)
illustrated production notes (Coming: The Exorcist III: Legion by Steve
Biodrowski)
Cinefantastique vol.21 no.3 (December
1990) p.53 (USA)
illustrated review (by Thomas Doherty)
Cinefantastique vol.21 no.4 (February
1991) pp.56; 57, 60 (USA)
illustrated credits, review (by Thomas Doherty); illustrated article
(The Post Production Exorcism Effects by Steve Biodrowski)
City Limits no.477 (22 November 1990)
p.22 (UK)
review (by Ian Johnston)
Empire no.18 (December 1990) p.40 (UK)
illustrated review (by Kim Newman)
Films and Filming no.418 (August 1989)
p.4 (UK)
credits
Films in Review vol.42 no.1/2 (January
/ February 1991) pp.52-53 (USA)
review (by Ken Hanke)
Hollywood Reporter vol.307 no.39 (30
May 1989) p.27 (USA)
credits
Hollywood Reporter vol.313 no.44 (21
August 1990) pp.1, 80 (USA)
article (Exorcist III turns b.o. heads but Two Jakes takes the fall
by Andrea King)
Hollywood Reporter vol.313 no.45 (20
August 1990) pp.17, 18 (USA)
review (by Henry Sheehan)
Monthly Film Studio vol.57 no.683 (December
1990) pp.352-353 (UK)
illustrated credits, synopsis, review
Screen International no.773 (8 September
1990) p.22 (UK)
review (by Torene Svitil)
Sight and Sound vol.1 no.12 (April 1992)
p.68 (UK)
note (by William Green)
Starburst vol.13 no.3 (no.147) (November
1990) pp.40-41 (UK)
illustrated review (by Alan Jones)
Studio February 1991 p.18 (France)
review (by Michel Rebichon)
Time Out no.1053 (24 October 1990) pp.17-18
(UK)
illustrated interview with William Peter Blatty
Time Out no.1057 (21 November 1990) p.47
(UK)
illustrated review (by Mark Kermode)
Variety 22 August 1990 p.76 (USA)
review (by Har)
Vox March 1992 p.95 (UK)
review
BOOKS
Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror (2nd
edition) p.461
credits, review KEYWORDS serial killers, possession, police, children,
decapitation, hospitals, nurses, doctors, psychiatrists, psychiatric
hospitals, demons, the devil, revenge, priests, sequels, book into
film, exorcisms, exorcists, geriatrics, churches
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