 Today's edition of Frightfully Forgotten. But first of all, what are we drinking today? We're drinking Drag Me To Hellis. Feel like hell the next day. Yeah, feel like hellis. Today we are doing, as promised, the Exorcist 3 Legion, the full on retrospective review as opposed to just our little VHS tale we did last week. It is written and directed by William Peter Blatty who wrote the novel that the first movie was based on. He's also directed some movies too, Ninth Configuration, based off of the novel Legion which he wrote which is the proper direct sequel to the Exorcist. It is starring George C. Scott. He's in one of the best haunting movies ever which we covered called The Changeling. Brad Durif is also in this. He of course is the voice of Chucky in the Child's Play movies. It starts with a dark, eerie, windy atmosphere with leaves blowing around. We see kinderman and he's on a dock investigating the murder of a 12-year-old boy. He was crucified to rowing oars, steel spikes driven through his eyes. He was decapitated into the place of his head, statue of Jesus, and the statue's face was done up in like black face. Not only is he defiling the body, he's defiling the kid's race. Yeah. It turns out that he is very good friends with a priest named Father Dyer and he is from the first movie. They're trying to cheer each other up because it's the anniversary of that night. Where Father Karris died. He cuts to a scene of a priest in a confessional. All you see is blackness but you hear a woman's voice on the other side and she's like it's very dark and creepy. First victim was in Candlestick Park and they cut to the priest's face and it's just a look of horror. You see a bit of blood kind of running down the floor and so you know what happened. It shows kinderman uncovers the veil that's covering the priest's body and he notices that there's a finger missing on one hand. On the other hand there's a sign of the Gemini. He's starting to link this stuff to the Gemini killer which was 17 years ago. The Gemini killer was apparently caught and executed. Kinderman begins talking to this doctor temple who is super chained smoking the whole time. As soon as he finishes his cigarette he lights up another one like right away. It happens to tell kinderman of the story about this patient they found who's in the psych ward who was catatonic up until when the murders started. They had found him 17 years ago wandering the streets with amnesia dressed like a priest. This patient intrigues kinderman. Kinderman goes down to cell 11. Who does it resemble? Who is it look exactly like? Who is this person? It is Damian Karris from the first movie who had supposedly died after being thrown out of a window down a flight of stairs and buried and he is in this cell in a straight jacket just woken up from a catatonic state. Dead people don't just move around and talk. What do you mean rigamortis? So if you want to find out what happens with Damian Karris, kinderman and the Gemini killer keep watching Exorcist 3 Legion. It's a fantastic sequel. It's a true real sequel to the first one. A lot of sequels it's like I saw this one already it was called the first one. This one is in a way it's completely different. The only reason it's called the Exorcist 3 is because some characters carry over into this story. That's the only real connection to the first one. There is an exorcism that happens at the end. Right, but that was because of the studio. But that's because of the studio insisted on having an exorcism in this movie. It feels like the exorcist. It feels like you're in the same city with the same atmosphere and the same characters right? Different actors play the characters. They use a lot of the scary church imagery that they used in the first one as well. And they actually I think in this movie they do a better job at making the statues and the interior of the church look not just scary but almost like threatening. Yeah. They make the church out to be a place that you don't want to go. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. It's a scary setting. In the hospital of course there's a psychiatric ward. And can you get much scarier than a psychiatric ward? It's cold and sterile and these crazy people everywhere. And then he goes to visit all the old people on that one floor. Old people who have lost their mind are scary. Yeah, they're all grabbing at you. Every setting that Kinderman is put in is uncomfortable and creepy. The settings of this movie are chosen for a great reason because it puts you off. You feel unsettled. George C. Scott does a good job of portraying how unsettling everything is, right? Brad Durif is in this and we haven't even touched on his character at all in the plot or anything yet. It's one of his best performances. He just grips you in. You can't take your eyes off this man. There was a lot that was shot with Brad Durif that was never used in the movie because they cut. All that stuff in with the Damien Karris. Dialogue is so deep. It's like you're watching a play. Directed and written by the same person who wrote the novel. It's very wordy. The dialogue in this movie is outstanding. It's a great dialogue. It's some of the best dialogue I think written for a movie. Genuine dialogue between characters. Not only a genuine dialogue, a genuine psychological thriller that doesn't use gore and blood and the actual act of seeing a murder happen to scare you. It's all the aftermath. It's all the description. You never see the boy who is crucified to the oars. Kindergarten is speaking to Dyer about it in the bar. And just the description and the way he talks about it. That's the scary part. Not seeing it. It's him describing it to another man. And a lot of the scenes were actually cut that showed the aftermath of the murders. The priest in the confessional booth is holding his own head basically. But they cut that out. And it's actually better because they describe it. They show just before the people die all the time in this movie. They never actually show a killing. Which leads us to what everyone wants us to talk about is the infamous jump scare. Some people say it's the best jump scare in horror movie history. I kind of think so. It might be. You know that that infamous double climax. There's a nurse in the hospital. She hears something and she goes to go check up on a patient. One angle down the hallway. She walks into the room and you can see in the room there's some curtains kind of flowing a little bit from the wind or whatever and it's like, well what's behind that? There's a sound that happens and she looks and it's a glass and this ice slowly melting in glass causes a sound and she's like, oh, that was it, right? She reaches for the glass. Yeah. Oh, my God. I can't get out of the sleep. Poor patient. He was up there. You know, he got pissed off. He got woken up by a nurse. Then it cuts to the hallway again, peering down to where there's an elevator in the back and the nurse station. This shot is continuous. There's no cuts. Yeah. Which is rare again. Yeah. It's very rare. And it's what makes it work very well. And there's so many little things happening in there. And there's a cop that comes in at one point and he sits down and it's again very subtly. You think, oh, okay. Yeah. The cop's there. Nothing's going to happen. The cop is there, you know. Yeah. And then nurse gets up and she goes to a different room to check on something and another cop comes and gets that cop and they leave together like, okay, she's by herself now. Then the cop comes back. Then the cop comes back. And you're like, okay, well the cop is there, I guess, you know, she's kind of safe. And the cop leaves again and like, just seconds later she comes out of the room and then... That's your second scare, right? And again, you don't see the murder happen. The time that takes place between the first jump scare and the second one, I think is what makes it work so well because a lot of jump scares, you know, the cat comes out, you know, it's seconds away. The next jump scare is seconds away, but this is like minutes away. Yeah. You've already calmed down from the first scare, right? I had forgotten all about the first jump scare part. It scared the living shit out of me, that first one is like, holy fuck. So it worked on me, you know, because my heart was beating and then it calmed right down. Okay, I know something's coming, but when, you know, I can't quite remember. Yeah. And I was calm. And then... Yeah. Right? Yeah. It's perfect. Yeah. And that image gets burned in your brain of that... That white gown... That white gown figure. The murders are very inventive. This guy or this person took their time, right? All the murders are done to sort of almost defile the church as well, right? And to kind of throw it in the church's face. This movie had a lot of cuts made to it due to the studio. There was an alternate opening. There was an alternate ending. Movie never actually had the actor who plays Damien Karris in it originally. Yeah. Which would have made it more confusing. And there is an alternate version of the movie out there called Legion, which is kind of more of the director's cut. But I'm not glad they put in the forced studio exorcism. It's all ridiculous. Like the priest comes in to exercise Damien Karris and he gets all thrown onto the ceiling and like sticks to the ceiling and peels off. And the floor all comes out and all the hell is coming out of the floor. The Bible all blows up. You can tell where Hollywood is like, they put their finger on that one, right? This movie does follow the book like very close. Very close. You read it? Yeah, I just read it. Yeah, I didn't read it. Cinematically, it does everything a horror movie should do. It really gets on your skin. It builds tension so well. It's very psychological in a way too because you don't know what kindremin when he's in the cell with patient X was what he's seeing real like that question that you keep asking yourself, what is he really seeing? Who is he really talking to? Can't sleep after watching this movie. Go out and play some baseball. You run a few laps or something or drink a few beers, pass out. So if you want a movie that's a true sequel to the Exorcist, one of the best sequels out there, please check out the Exorcist 3. It is one of the best mind fucks in scariest movies you'll see. Keep drinking.