{"id":3177,"date":"2006-11-12T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-12T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3177"},"modified":"2006-11-12T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-12T10:25:00","slug":"exorcist-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3177","title":{"rendered":"Exorcist 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I remember having watched this about 15 years ago, and finding it very good. Watching it now confirmed several things – I still think it is very good – but the ending was very annoying and smothered what could have been an excellent<\/span> film. The great bits: dialogue and character, especially between the policeman and the priest; the surreal vision of heaven, and the restrained implications of things going wrong (mostly); and one particular ‘shock’ – which was one of my clearest memories from when I first saw it, and remains one of the most frightening moments in any film for me. That sequence works extremely well, and would repay study I think. But the ending was overblown and awful, lacking in all the theological subtlety that had been apparent up until then. The character of the exorcist priest also needed a little more fleshing out and integrating with the remaining narrative.<\/p>\n

Having said all that, it is undoubtedly the best of all the Exorcist sequels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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