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Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist 2005
It's better than the Harlin film, but it's an unpolished, unfinished work. They gave Schrader peanuts for finishing funds after fucking him over the first time, and that lowballing hurt it. On the plus side, that means that unlike Exorcist: The Beginning, it's absent of any horrendous CGI landscapes which is one of the biggest eyesores of Renny Harlin's awful film.
But this isn't without its own share of dreadful computer graphics, like that one shot of the hyenas threatening…
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The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen 2000
I love both cuts of this equally. Each has things I like about it. The 4K of this looks and sounds stupendous, by the way. WB continues their track record of putting out really solid UHD discs.
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The Greasy Strangler 2016
UPDATE: It's now been seven years since I've seen this film. I think about it at least once a day, and have every day, since June the 14th, 2016. Yes, this is a one-star review, but in reality, it's a secret four-star affair.
It's like Napoleon Dynamite, The Room, Swamp Thing and Todd Solondz beat each other to death inside a Tim & Eric sketch, all set to a soundtrack from a Dan Deacon soundalike.
The titular 'Greasy Strangler' looks like…
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Mortal Kombat: Annihilation 1997
This is, by the absolute loosest human understanding of the word, a movie.