(Legion)
Country: US
Technical: col 110m
Director: William Peter Blatty
Cast: George C. Scott, Ed Flanders, Brad Dourif, Jason Miller, Nicol Williamson, Scott Wilson
Synopsis:
Fifteen years after the events involving Regan and Father Karras, a police lieutenant investigates a spate of gruesome murders in Georgetown, each of whose victims began with the letter 'K'. They seem to emanate from a high-risk patient at the local psychiatric hospital.
Review:
Moderately gripping diabolical thriller, with one or two highly effective jump scares, in particular a fixed camera setup of a night duty nurse going about her business. It by rights occupies the place held by the incoherent Boorman film of 1977 as first sequel, being generally well paced and acted, though the sixty year-old Scott does not look at all well in his lurid close-ups. His character Kinderman's agnosticism is held out as his principal weakness in combating Satan, but one begins to doubt the relevance of this sort of drama to a society that does not believe in God but does believe in Evil (ironically the position to which Kinderman ultimately gravitates). Little wonder that the ending is far from conclusive.
(Legion)
Country: US
Technical: col 110m
Director: William Peter Blatty
Cast: George C. Scott, Ed Flanders, Brad Dourif, Jason Miller, Nicol Williamson, Scott Wilson
Synopsis:
Fifteen years after the events involving Regan and Father Karras, a police lieutenant investigates a spate of gruesome murders in Georgetown, each of whose victims began with the letter 'K'. They seem to emanate from a high-risk patient at the local psychiatric hospital.
Review:
Moderately gripping diabolical thriller, with one or two highly effective jump scares, in particular a fixed camera setup of a night duty nurse going about her business. It by rights occupies the place held by the incoherent Boorman film of 1977 as first sequel, being generally well paced and acted, though the sixty year-old Scott does not look at all well in his lurid close-ups. His character Kinderman's agnosticism is held out as his principal weakness in combating Satan, but one begins to doubt the relevance of this sort of drama to a society that does not believe in God but does believe in Evil (ironically the position to which Kinderman ultimately gravitates). Little wonder that the ending is far from conclusive.
