He doesn't fear the elderly. He mocks them mercilessly. "Ironically, they're nothing but bones now." Wheel of the Worst 6. Literally the exact opposite of the truth.
Years ago, I wrote to Blatty. I told him that I thought the Devil lost in the original film with the original ending, and it was not until Exorcist III that I begun thinking that the Devil won. He wrote back! He said the original was never intended to be a horror film but a movie portaying psychological warfare and the battle between good and evil. I still have his letter. My monastery is in Washington, DC, and he wrote that he is retired and living in Maryland and hoped to come by for a visit. Sadly, he never did.
Did he mention anything about the theme of child abuse, i watched a breakdown of the original by a guy suggesting Reagan is being abused by the old drunk guy friend of the mother. It made a lot of sense looking back now.
@Adrijana Radosevic the movie and the book are far from being about the perils of "uterus owners pursuing a career". In the movie the drunk guy is observed outside Reagan's room. Back in the first floor, he wants to confess something he did but leaves before confessing. Immedately after that, the infamous deleted scene happens. In that scene we see Reagan "walking" down the stairs with blood in her mouth. She is in an inverted position. The whole secuence is meant to express she was raped. From that moment the girl has a disturbing behaviour. This is clear in the scene with her masturbating with the crucifix, and her quasi-rape towars her mother. It's sexual abuse and/or the begging of a possesion. It's not a man vs. woman movie like those of nowadays
@@lardosian She scolds Sharon because Burke Dennings is a drunk and she can't see why one would leave him in charge of what she then thinks is a very sick girl. I don't buy the child abuse rap either but it's not an invalid or stupid interpretation.
Jay Picard looks good my dad called me said can’t wait to see in theatre I had to tell him cbs all access he’s 79 doesn’t understand streaming services lol
Mike wishes he could force his friends to watch Star Trek. Like he doesn't do that already! He made Jay dress up in a Star Trek uniform for his Star Trek themed tea party
See, this is why I love RLM. I'd have never watched Exorcist III, nor most of the other re-View movies they discuss. It's like being introduced to hidden gems every time they make one of these.
It's also fantastic when they review stuff you _have_ seen. I'd seen Freaked a couple years before they did an episode on it, and Cabin Fever _years_ before, and it was awesome going back over them, and learning stuff I hadn't known about the production
What type of movies do you like, what are your favorites or what would you like to explore (but maybe don't know where to begin)? I'll introduce you to some more gems 🍻
So, one thing that I don't think you guys mentioned is the weird reference to Child's Play. Brad Dourif (who played Chucky) at one point says, "child's play, lieutenant" and immediately the scene cuts away to a shot of a little redheaded child. I never noticed it before until I watched it again after enjoying this review!
I was thinking about that too. Another thing I was waiting to see if they'd mention was the Joker bit in the church. It's always intrigued me and I've never seen it acknowledged.
@Jaime Garcia I always thought that was a creepy shot to show evil's presence but I've never thought of it as "the joker" from Batman. I don't know though maybe it is a nod to the comic, but it seems kind of out of place if it is.
There's also a bit where Father Dyer is talking to the priest played by Lee Richardson. He says his favorite movie is The Fly, and the year prior, Lee Richardson had played Bartok in The Fly II.
@@NextGen_Pants Actually it reminds me of the Star Trek Voyager episode "Non Sequitur" where Harry Kim ditches his alternate timeline girlfriend for Tom Paris.
I was waiting on someone to mention Lon Suder and how fucking great he was, and one of the many internal drama controversies on Voyager's set that prevented his return.
That snap zoom in the hospital is, to this day, the most effective jumpscare I've ever witnessed. Jay is absolutely right, you just kinda give up looking for something to be scared of. You know something is going to happen, because it's a movie, and you wouldn't be seeing this if it wasn't important, but so little happens for so long, and then WHAM! So expertly timed, the actors walk in almost perfect sync of one another, and you don't get enough information to know what exactly you just saw. Just enough to know that that poor nurse is another victim.
No lie, this attitude is what fully opened my eyes to the true magic of filmmaking. The insight that what I am seeing on the screen is (hopefully) always being shown for a REASON. It was the single most useful piece of information to me in analyzing any movie I watched afterwards and it remains a constant feature when I view a film or TV show. Seeing the process of filming in that way, with the final result in mind, becomes second nature.
I watched this film with my then girlfriend and she was absolutely hysterical afterwards to the extent that I had to walk her down our rather long hallway to the bathroom and then wait for her and walk her back.
I really appreciate the audio engineers in this film who made the lines of dialogue so rich and saturated with atmosphere. It's feels very intimate and surreal. The dialogue from most of the actors felt like worried whispers; everyone speaking softly to one another like they are scared and wishing to keep what's happening a dirty little secret. Mix that with the demon's confident, proud, and boastful voice...very good.
Nooooooooo, you mean that horrible filter they put over his voice? This movie is horribly edited, and the audio is no different; sounds aren't mixed with the setting in mind, poorly transition from scene to scene, and the ADR in some scenes makes it painfully obvious that one actor was just in a separate room.
I love how the Gemini killers voice changes from a deep bass to an almost comical higher pitch, like he is a jester, everything is a joke. It is never to much in either direction but enough to make you feel uneasy.
Between his reaction to Mike saying he like Travolta in Fanatic to saying he LOVES Exorcist III... I think Jay may be genuinely terrified of Mike at this point
People judge the exorcist just on "scares" when it's actually just a well shot, well acted movie with great dialogue that happens to be a horror movie (in my opinion). It's a great character study of a mother going insane with a sick child and a priest losing his faith and what little family he has left.
Concerning the matter brought up at 8:04 in the video here, here's a quote from a 1997 issue (#21 exactly) of the magazine 'The Phantom of the Movies Videoscope .. . "The trouble seems to be that, with many of the great fright films, once an audience knows what's coming, it's almost as if the audience needs to laugh at the film's lost ability to shock them as a form of revenge, if you will, for the scares inflicted the first time around. So then maybe it's more of a tribute than it might appear at first. "
@@GggmanlivesIt’s a horror movie in the same way “The shining” is a horror movie. The scares are not the centerpiece. It’s the filmmaking. Just how I feel however.
The fact that they don’t show the viewers the bodies works so well on a psychological level. When real crimes are committed the public for the most part never sees the carnage (just like in the movie), yet we also don’t get to see the trauma the first responders experience having to deal with. We see through Kinderman the toll that years on the police force has on him through the horrible crimes he is called to. We get to see how awful the crimes are through his reactions.
@@EverDownward both Se7en and Shutter Island are psychological thrillers and, outside of religious themes, don't really go into the occult a similar movie to this would be The Wailing (2016), which I wholeheartedly recommend to anyone brave enough to face the terrors of foreign language and subtitles
Hey guys, just want to let you know I am a close relative of William Peter Blatty and I really enjoyed this review. Also a big fan of BotW. Keep up the good work!
I gave your uncle head in 2010 when I was 20. We met online. Wouldn’t usually talk to an older guy but he dropped some hints when he found out I loved to read. Big fan of his work.
That purgatory dream sequence is one of my favorite movie scenes ever. The strange cadence of it with the sped up clips and the simultaneously upbeat and creepy quality it has. Then all the angels and Tommy Dorsey music (lead by Dorsey himself, who is also an angel). It's the most accurately recreated dream state I've ever seen in a movie.
@@mabusestestament Yeah, that's why it looks like a big train station and everyone is laid out on hospital beds still bearing the wounds that killed them . It's supposed to be the waypoint where everyone recovers from Earth's ravages before moving on to heaven.
I love this scene too. It's mix of white colors, with sped up clips, music and weird way people talk just created this unsettling vibe to it. It's really hard to describe why it works. Coming to this video the first i watched i thought RLM would mock the film and trash on this scene, but i was pleasantly surprised at how well they reviewed it and how they got right scenes such as this. I say that because they're a comedic channel, and literally every video about the exorcist movies has the idiotic "this movie is hilarious lol hur dur i'm so cool".
One of my favorite scenes, it was unsettling, the ambient score and uncanny atmosphere, it actually made me tear up for how haunting and depressing it was, there's people from all walks of life, even animals, children and babies were there, people who never got to live and a few people looked visibly upset like they're processing their death. No other scene regardless of genre, has hit me hard like that one. One of my favorite shots was the windows of the cathedral, I always wondered what was out there.
@@stephenpaccone8120 BRO. Did you hear that bro? It sounded like a spirit. Let's check the EVP. Yeah bro, if you listen to the EVP, the spirit definitely said "Yes, I agree. A full month of Mike talking about Ghost Adventures." This was an intelligent response; a direct answer to a comment I made giving us more evidence that UA-cam is truly haunted.
Some things in the movie are indeed really great, I'm just sad at the end it goes totally looney tunes with the possesed grandma throwing people around with super human strenght and such
When I was about 8 years old, I'd watch MTV all the time. I can specifically remember when Exorcist 3 had commercials for its' opening, I remember the Tubular Bells song playing, I remember that shot of the Jesus statue opening its' eyes, and I remember it all because it scared the piss out of me.
An elderly customer of mine brought me old vhs tapes to watch pretty much every week. Exorcist III showed up one day, and he said something like, "Lot of people don't like this one, but I do." Knew even before I was really into film that Exorcist III had a unique, intriguing atmosphere. You buy George C. Scott's frustration every step of the way, especially with the tight, claustrophobic editing.
Mr Tinkelp was a real movie critic of Polish descent in Madison, Wisconsin who was murdered but believed missing and body never found. This was 1973, the year Mike was born. His unwarranted demise left his soul as an angry revenant that possessed the child to exact his wrath on the living and manifested himself as a split personality named with a bizarre spiritual reversal of syllables. Someone close to Mike is quite probably the murderer/murderess and I'm surprised this has gone on so long without action by the guilty party (unless they are deceased) and possibly Mike is unaware. I wonder where Mr Tinkelp's remains are and if their location had an impact on the cause of the haunting, or possession, if you were.
Cut from Wikipedia: *Despite his misgivings about the studio-imposed reshoots, Blatty remarked on his pride in the finished version of Exorcist III: "It's still a superior film. And in my opinion, and excuse me if I utter heresy here, but for me...it's a more frightening film than The Exorcist."[10]*
@@solidtank7957 They nominated George C. Scott for a Razzie for this film. I don't get why, just looking at the footage here he's great, it makes me really want to sit down and watch it all.
There’s that movie where he’s searching for his missing daughter and has to watch a porn she’s in and it’s all just his tortured reactions. Something about watching this guy, a square jawed old badass, breakdown in movies is so effective. And he has the balls go for it. Cry, scream, all of it.
@Grant Kerr Also too I love that movie for essentially pulling a Pet Sematary and killing the kid but they throw in the wife too and kill them off in the first 5 min
Ah, yes, the one where Brad Dourif really _deserved_ an Academy Award super hard. No joke. You can make fun of his Child's Play/Chucky performances all night long, it's really easy and kind of "low blow" territory, but the dude seriously acted _the flying fuck_ out of this movie. It's a super memorable performance and it lands really well, even all these years later. He's just fucking _evil_ and it's amazing. Ya did good, Brad. The Academy might have overlooked ya, but I certainly didn't. One of the best villain performances of all time.
He is a somewhat underrated actor for sure, in every role he gives a lot more than you would expect. No idea why he didn't get bigger and better roles. Don't get me started on his performance as Wormtongue or Piter De Vries..
I saw this movie multiple times when it ran in theatres, and would love to see it again. Most modern horror movies aren't worthy of wiping this one's backside!
Exorcist 3 is a masterpiece. The scene with father dyers body and blood supply is incredible. No music just the rain, and it holds on objects for a long time.
I was 10 and snuck into a theater in like 1990 (or whenever this was released) to see this... The theater was freezing cold. Didn't watch all of it, left because NOPE lol. So glad this film is liked by so many others. I actually like it more than the original (both are great though). Very underrated film.
I'm not polish but my mom did the same with fish. Not a lot of people know the awkwardness of a situation like a walleye with a death sentence watching you from the tub as you take a shit.
Used to be common practice in Germany as well, my grandparents regularly prepared Carp for dinner on New Year's Eve. The Carp swum for a couple of days in the bathtub in order to make it taste less of dirty old mudwater.
woah woah woah woah, i gotta stop you there buddy. do not mess with my boy david. do not call my boy legion a villain, he can be an anti hero. or a rogue. but never a villain. all the bad he has done comes from his mental illness. but not from himself.
My friends and I rented this several times in the early 90s. We literally could not stop talking about the jump scare. There are also little creepy details in certain scenes and so much glorious weirdness. It's a good 'un
I love this movie as well - so many terrifying elements - even the jump scares are clever as hell. I'd love to own a version that was Blatty's vision without the reshoots. Thank you for reviewing this!
The priest in the reshoots is played by the actor who also played the Gnome King/psychiatrist in Return to Oz and Merlin in Excalibur. Nicol Williamson, great actor!
Good catch! I could never quite place where I had seen the actor before until you mentioned Excalibur. Absolutely loved that movie and his portrayal of Merlin was just perfect, he stole every scene he appeared in.
Fun fact the actor who plays Father Morning,the priest with the pigeon,is the legendary Nicol Williamson who played Merlin in Excalibur and Little John in Robin and Marian to name a few!
It's one of the greatest films from after 1972. It's generslly at the top of many Top Lists by phenomenal writers. It's tattooed on my aunt's backside.
Here's another fun fact about the random scene with Larry King in it. Right before the camera zooms in on Larry Kings face and your looking through the restaurant window, former US Surgeon General C. Everett Coop is the man sitting at the table with his iconic beard and bow tie. ..
So glad this film is finally getting the respect it's been due. I've been telling anyone who will listen to watch it since it came out! It's my second favorite horror film of all time. Fun fact: Former Surgeon General C Everett Koop is also in the diner scene.
Exorcist III is one of the few movies that actually scares me to my bones. Beyond the jump scares and creepiness, the discussion of the nature of evil is truly disturbing.
Dourif is fantastic as the lead in John Huston's 1979 film, Wise Blood. Criminally underrated. Nice little connection too: DP Gerry Fisher shot both Wise Blood and The Exorcist III.
This film is great, I love it. It's horrifying and creative without gore, has one of the most effective jump scares of all times and makes me laugh so hard in parts with it's dry humor. George C Scott is simply amazing. His dialogues with Dyer are such gems!
Yup, I got it, too. Wait... who am I again? Who took my Ensure.....? Lol. I just found this channel- fabulous. These guys are a riot. 👍Good luck with those prostate issues. 😂👍
That "what are you telling me?" at 21:05 is such a small moment, but it is probably my favorite in the entire movie. Because of the dream, you know something bad has happened, but the way Kinderman responds just makes it clear that because of what has happened, nothing will ever be the same.
Exorcist III was excellent. For the studio having a short leash on Blatty, I thought he did a good job with this movie. I think this is Brad Dourif's best acting performance.
Before the Exorcist, Blatty was known as a writer of comedy. His books are hilarious, including The Exorcist. It is actually a very, very funny novel. You guys MUST see The Ninth Configuration. One of the very best films ever made. Masterfully written and directed. Also, read the books. Incredible.
Concerning the matter brought up at 8:04 in the video here, here's a quote from a 1997 issue (#21 exactly) of the magazine 'The Phantom of the Movies Videoscope .. . "The trouble seems to be that, with many of the great fright films, once an audience knows what's coming, it's almost as if the audience needs to laugh at the film's lost ability to shock them as a form of revenge, if you will, for the scares inflicted the first time around. So then maybe it's more of a tribute than it might appear at first. "
7:38 "I don't want them to think the devil won" There's somthing deeply sad about the way he says that. Like he's heartbroken people have misinterpreted his message, like he darkened the world a little.
One of my favorite movies of all time. Possibly one of the most underrated horror movies and sequels ever. It has a lot going for it, and the more i watch it the more i appreciate it to be honest. I remember the second time i watched it, and when it showed that old lady arriving at the church in the beginning, i realized it was one of the nurses and catatonics from the hospital, something i didn't even noticed in my first view. haha That dream sequence has some interesting details to it too.
As of October 2021, this is on Netflix! Just watched it for the first time and it absolutely holds up, so glad that RLM recommended this so that when I was looking for some spooky Halloween season viewing I knew to give it a shot. Brad Dourif completely steals the whole movie, it's a sight to behold.
This is my favourite ‘re:View’ video. I haven’t seen ‘Exorcist III’ yet but I just love listening to Mike and Jay discuss the film. I enjoy myself every time I watch it :)
@@stackspace Don’t worry, I plan on watching it this month. I’ve had the film on Blu-ray for a while now, saving it for October to get me in a more Halloween-y mood. I even rewatched ‘The Exorcist’ last Saturday in preparation for this. Once I’ve seen the film, I’ll let you guys know 🙂👍🏻
Good news, everyone: I finally watched ‘Exorcist III’! I chose the theatrical cut to watch and finished it just now. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and now I think it may be one of my favourite horror films. Next I have the ‘Legion’ director’s cut to see so maybe I’ll save it until next October for the Halloween season 😊
Hey, guys! Just writing to say I also watched the ‘Legion’ director’s cut for the first time a couple of weeks ago. It was the first film I watched as part of my annual horror film marathon. It was interesting to see the new scenes of the original cut in V.H.S. picture quality. I liked this version of the film, but I prefer the theatrical cut. After watching ‘Exorcist III’ a second time, albeit a different cut of the film, it’s definitely one of my favourite horror films ever 😄
Hate to necrocomment, But the dream sequence was probably one of the most realistic depictions for a dream I've seen in film. Even the line "I'm sorry you were murdered", is just good. It feels intentional. For me, I could picture that happening in my dreams, something akin to throwing a punch that lands like a feather while dreaming.
Of course this is one of Mike's favorite horror movies, it plays on his fear of the elderly.
so then his favorite horror movie is surely The Visit?
He doesn't fear the elderly. He mocks them mercilessly. "Ironically, they're nothing but bones now." Wheel of the Worst 6. Literally the exact opposite of the truth.
@@bakedspade That mockery is based in fear. He mocks them to try and convince himself he'll never be one of them.
@@David_Axelord exactly... everyday, his dark fate comes closer. Each day, there is something else he cant remember...
@@lowserver2 HAHA (laughs as mild epileptic)
Years ago, I wrote to Blatty. I told him that I thought the Devil lost in the original film with the original ending, and it was not until Exorcist III that I begun thinking that the Devil won. He wrote back! He said the original was never intended to be a horror film but a movie portaying psychological warfare and the battle between good and evil. I still have his letter. My monastery is in Washington, DC, and he wrote that he is retired and living in Maryland and hoped to come by for a visit. Sadly, he never did.
Did he mention anything about the theme of child abuse, i watched a breakdown of the original by a guy suggesting Reagan is being abused by the old drunk guy friend of the mother. It made a lot of sense looking back now.
hey bro i live in the area, i'll visit your monastery
So cool!
@Adrijana Radosevic the movie and the book are far from being about the perils of "uterus owners pursuing a career". In the movie the drunk guy is observed outside Reagan's room. Back in the first floor, he wants to confess something he did but leaves before confessing. Immedately after that, the infamous deleted scene happens. In that scene we see Reagan "walking" down the stairs with blood in her mouth. She is in an inverted position. The whole secuence is meant to express she was raped. From that moment the girl has a disturbing behaviour. This is clear in the scene with her masturbating with the crucifix, and her quasi-rape towars her mother. It's sexual abuse and/or the begging of a possesion. It's not a man vs. woman movie like those of nowadays
@@lardosian She scolds Sharon because Burke Dennings is a drunk and she can't see why one would leave him in charge of what she then thinks is a very sick girl. I don't buy the child abuse rap either but it's not an invalid or stupid interpretation.
"Recruit more priests, more deacons." George C. Scott
Sounds like an amazing Dr Strangelove outtake.
You got a problem, you're gonna be exorcised.
AAARGH! MY GROIN!
But how come he knew we were after his soul.
Put yo faith on it!
"I have hobbies" is one of the most expertly delivered lines of dry comedy I've heard.
He got killed in Vietnam
There could've been some connection
Makes me crack up
“I got you lunch.”
“Where’s it from?”
“Space. Your native country.”
Punished Mike, a man denied his Star Trek discussions.
Jay Picard looks good my dad called me said can’t wait to see in theatre I had to tell him cbs all access he’s 79 doesn’t understand streaming services lol
He's already a demon.
The sins never die.
@@Brandon_Powell He's the Devil's son!
Why are we here, only to suffer?
Mike wishes he could force his friends to watch Star Trek. Like he doesn't do that already! He made Jay dress up in a Star Trek uniform for his Star Trek themed tea party
Mike is like me with anime when I was 15-25.
@@SquatsAndOats2plate Star Trek is just JoJo's Bizarre Adventure for boomers
@@Stephillpotten Mike's a Gen-Xer
@@PangolinMontanari yes but I'm going by the meme definition of boomer (anyone who isn't gen z)
"Oh what a lovely Star Trek tea party."
20 seconds in and Mike has already brought up Star Trek.
Startrek Brought up Mike and it's already 20s in.
In 10 i was getting worried.
Mike's decapitated head can continue to talk about Star Trek for approximately 20 seconds
ScareBare 😂 genius
He doesn't need a Star Trek holiday when he mentions Star Trek every upload.
Mike’s disdain for the elderly never gets old
Emma Armo since I started listening to these guys I’ve found the word elderly creeping into my vocabulary more and more.
If his disdain got old would he have disdain for his disdain?
Your smile never gets old hey what’s up
we always have disdain for those who remind us the most of ourselves. :D
Not long til he's elderly himself...
See, this is why I love RLM. I'd have never watched Exorcist III, nor most of the other re-View movies they discuss. It's like being introduced to hidden gems every time they make one of these.
Tu Quowoke I love E3!
That's how I found Return Of The Living Dead, a movie I can confidently call my favorite. I should really have seen it 15 years ago.
It's also fantastic when they review stuff you _have_ seen. I'd seen Freaked a couple years before they did an episode on it, and Cabin Fever _years_ before, and it was awesome going back over them, and learning stuff I hadn't known about the production
What type of movies do you like, what are your favorites or what would you like to explore (but maybe don't know where to begin)? I'll introduce you to some more gems 🍻
It makes up for Exorcist 2
So, one thing that I don't think you guys mentioned is the weird reference to Child's Play. Brad Dourif (who played Chucky) at one point says, "child's play, lieutenant" and immediately the scene cuts away to a shot of a little redheaded child. I never noticed it before until I watched it again after enjoying this review!
Yes, the film is actually full of these in-jokes and references. It definitely rewards close attention on repeat viewings.
I was thinking about that too. Another thing I was waiting to see if they'd mention was the Joker bit in the church. It's always intrigued me and I've never seen it acknowledged.
@Jaime Garcia I always thought that was a creepy shot to show evil's presence but I've never thought of it as "the joker" from Batman. I don't know though maybe it is a nod to the comic, but it seems kind of out of place if it is.
they also make a spaceballs reference lol they say “may the schwartz be with you”
There's also a bit where Father Dyer is talking to the priest played by Lee Richardson. He says his favorite movie is The Fly, and the year prior, Lee Richardson had played Bartok in The Fly II.
Mike just got off his shift at Trader Joe's
He fucking owns the old man aesthetic
LMAO!
Bahahahaha
Do they have those in Milwaukee?
Mike doesnt need a holiday to force everyone to listen to his Star Trek ramblings. He just needs a non sequitur
This comment reminds me of an episode of TNG...
@@NextGen_Pants Actually it reminds me of the Star Trek Voyager episode "Non Sequitur" where Harry Kim ditches his alternate timeline girlfriend for Tom Paris.
@@rayceeya8659 Well, it would be our original Lincoln Enterprises IDIC medallions, which is what Roddenberry wanted to merchandise during TOS.
More like two words or more spoken in his general direction :^)
Non sequitur, it reminds of the Star Trek: Voyager episode... "Non Sequitur".
Mike only likes _Exorcist III_ because Brad Dourif was in Star Trek Voyager.
Omg I didnt think that, but you're right!
I think its because Mike loves the elderly.
And he was great in that too. Guy plays an amazing crazy person.
@@chance2smoke Genuine question; has Brad Dourif ever played a non crazy person in a film?
I was waiting on someone to mention Lon Suder and how fucking great he was, and one of the many internal drama controversies on Voyager's set that prevented his return.
“It’s a problem I’m working on, all this bleeding”. Alludes to the future killing of father dyer. Not a drop spilled
samuel wolf Fuck it took me 29 years to get that 😂
That's a good catch. I never thought of that.
Gawd, that is fucking awful/terrifying lol
That snap zoom in the hospital is, to this day, the most effective jumpscare I've ever witnessed. Jay is absolutely right, you just kinda give up looking for something to be scared of. You know something is going to happen, because it's a movie, and you wouldn't be seeing this if it wasn't important, but so little happens for so long, and then WHAM! So expertly timed, the actors walk in almost perfect sync of one another, and you don't get enough information to know what exactly you just saw. Just enough to know that that poor nurse is another victim.
No lie, this attitude is what fully opened my eyes to the true magic of filmmaking. The insight that what I am seeing on the screen is (hopefully) always being shown for a REASON. It was the single most useful piece of information to me in analyzing any movie I watched afterwards and it remains a constant feature when I view a film or TV show. Seeing the process of filming in that way, with the final result in mind, becomes second nature.
I watched this film with my then girlfriend and she was absolutely hysterical afterwards to the extent that I had to walk her down our rather long hallway to the bathroom and then wait for her and walk her back.
"You can't trust a demon"
Mike Stoklasa - 2019
Hot take of the year
Is he talking from personal experience?
🤨👉👉👉👉👉👉👉👉👉👉👉👉 always gotta b wary
I was at the back of the theatre and when that jump scare hit, the ENTIRE AUDIENCE came out of their seats.
I was at home eating chocolate ice cream when I first saw it and I almost puked.
I saw it in the theatre in 1990. That scene was glorious.
Aw man... I wish I could have seen that! Sadly, I was 2 months old.
@@jtrickett1974 Same here. I was 15.
Yeah I was there! I flew out of mine!
Mike doing Jay a solid by getting the Star Trek talk out of the way.
"Ow, my groin!" will always be my all-time favorite George C. Scott line.
@Daniel Thomas Macinnes
In what scene does Scott say " Ow, my groin" ? I don't recall it at all.
The Simpsons?
Hans Moleman presents: Man Getting Hit by Footbbbaaaaaaaaallllllll
@@tehbigshow 'This is not America's Funniest Home Videos'
I remember that 😂😂😂😂😂
Those giant bone shears remind me of that creepy ass game Clock Tower.
Which was partly inspired by the movie Phenomena, they should do a review of that movie, one can hope.
Oh shit I love Clock Tower
It's based on a German fairy tale about a man with shears cutting off your thumbs if you dont stop sucking your thumb.
"Rich Little is a reference none of our audience will get." Old people watch this channel too, Jay!
Young people with no lives (me) also get that reference.
also Canadians
That’s what Rich Evans calls his junk
Yeah. I"m older than they are.
Mid 30s and have never heard of him.
George C Scott is incredible. His character’s journey and performance in this reminds me of “Hardcore”. Another awesome movie.
@Lex Talonis - My thoughts exactly. “TURN IT OFF”
Which has been covered before by Mike and Jay thank god.
George C. Scott is great in everything, I want to have his voice when I'm elderly.
@@21Arrozito So cool, everyone thinks George Patton sounded like that.
@Mathieu Champagne Have you ever seen that Nicholas Cage movie 8MM? It's like 8MM but good.
"Pazuzu" is also the pet-gargoyle of Professor Farnsworth in Futurama.
@bkmustaciola Farnsworth put him through grad school, damn it! :P
*Oh Pazuzu...*
PAZUZU YOU OWE MEEEEEEEE
Pazuzu was a winged demon of Ancient Mesopotamia. It was a mythological being before being incorporated into Christian demonology.
@@ardenorcrush649 Yes. Like so many devils and demons.
So thankful Exorcist III is getting the love it deserves. I've always considered it one of the greatest horror movies ever made.
I liked the dialogue and thought George Scott's character was really likeable too
I really appreciate the audio engineers in this film who made the lines of dialogue so rich and saturated with atmosphere. It's feels very intimate and surreal. The dialogue from most of the actors felt like worried whispers; everyone speaking softly to one another like they are scared and wishing to keep what's happening a dirty little secret. Mix that with the demon's confident, proud, and boastful voice...very good.
Like he steps out of the world of the film, and is trying to directly put fear into the audience. And it works
Nooooooooo, you mean that horrible filter they put over his voice? This movie is horribly edited, and the audio is no different; sounds aren't mixed with the setting in mind, poorly transition from scene to scene, and the ADR in some scenes makes it painfully obvious that one actor was just in a separate room.
I love how the Gemini killers voice changes from a deep bass to an almost comical higher pitch, like he is a jester, everything is a joke. It is never to much in either direction but enough to make you feel uneasy.
Between his reaction to Mike saying he like Travolta in Fanatic to saying he LOVES Exorcist III...
I think Jay may be genuinely terrified of Mike at this point
Mike's Star Trek "month" starts Jan 1 ends Dec 31
Exorcist 3 is easily one of the most underappreciated Sequels and Horror Movies ever made. Brad Dourif is brilliant in this film.
Brad Dourif is brilliant in almost every film he's in.
Horrormaster13 wow, thanks for the opinion....took a ton of courage for you to say that on this video. Ass.
Horrormaster13 I agree and I haven’t even seen this movie, looks pretty good.
People judge the exorcist just on "scares" when it's actually just a well shot, well acted movie with great dialogue that happens to be a horror movie (in my opinion). It's a great character study of a mother going insane with a sick child and a priest losing his faith and what little family he has left.
It’s a horror movie first and foremost.
Gman!!! Heeeeeeey
Concerning the matter brought up at 8:04 in the video here, here's a quote from a 1997 issue (#21 exactly) of the magazine 'The Phantom of the Movies Videoscope .. .
"The trouble seems to be that, with many of the great fright films, once an audience knows what's coming, it's almost as if the audience needs to laugh at the film's lost ability to shock them as a form of revenge, if you will, for the scares inflicted the first time around. So then maybe it's more of a tribute than it might appear at first. "
@@GggmanlivesIt’s a horror movie in the same way “The shining” is a horror movie. The scares are not the centerpiece. It’s the filmmaking. Just how I feel however.
@@guthax30 don't compare the Exorcist to the Shining, please, it's kinda insulting. Even Stephen King said Kubrick screwd his novel.
The fact that they don’t show the viewers the bodies works so well on a psychological level.
When real crimes are committed the public for the most part never sees the carnage (just like in the movie), yet we also don’t get to see the trauma the first responders experience having to deal with.
We see through Kinderman the toll that years on the police force has on him through the horrible crimes he is called to. We get to see how awful the crimes are through his reactions.
"A police proceedural with an occult horror movie snuck into it." Holy shit where do I sign up.
Like they mentioned in this re:View, Exorcist III and Se7en. I'd also recommend Shutter Island, as well.
@@EverDownward both Se7en and Shutter Island are psychological thrillers and, outside of religious themes, don't really go into the occult
a similar movie to this would be The Wailing (2016), which I wholeheartedly recommend to anyone brave enough to face the terrors of foreign language and subtitles
@@EverDownward Shutter Island is ok but Angel Heart was better.
I'd say season 1 of True Detective somewhat fits this description as well.
Johnnie Walker fuckin angel heart bro yes
Just when im feeling my lowest , I get the joys of seeing Mike Stoklasa in a pumpkin coloured flowery shirt!
Mike knows the hidden truth: Hawaiian shirts are great.
Hope you feel better soon.
Amazon wonders why there's a sudden surge in viewings of The Exorcist 3.
(FYI, it's free on Amazon prime currently.)
Still is.
Still is. It’s a must watch every october
Of course Jay edited it, he makes Mike's finger wag into a David Lynch moment.
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Hey guys, just want to let you know I am a close relative of William Peter Blatty and I really enjoyed this review. Also a big fan of BotW. Keep up the good work!
I’m actually related to William Peter Beatty as well.
I’m Willian Peter Blatty and I’m gay
I gave your uncle head in 2010 when I was 20. We met online. Wouldn’t usually talk to an older guy but he dropped some hints when he found out I loved to read. Big fan of his work.
I'm related to Warren Beatty.
Breath of the wild?
That purgatory dream sequence is one of my favorite movie scenes ever. The strange cadence of it with the sped up clips and the simultaneously upbeat and creepy quality it has. Then all the angels and Tommy Dorsey music (lead by Dorsey himself, who is also an angel). It's the most accurately recreated dream state I've ever seen in a movie.
It thought it was heaven (long time since I've seen the movie), but it's purgatory then?
@@mabusestestament Yeah, that's why it looks like a big train station and everyone is laid out on hospital beds still bearing the wounds that killed them . It's supposed to be the waypoint where everyone recovers from Earth's ravages before moving on to heaven.
@K B
Okay, thanks 🍻
Yeah I remember it being a pretty cool/ original depiction of the hereafter. I like it when movies do that.
I love this scene too. It's mix of white colors, with sped up clips, music and weird way people talk just created this unsettling vibe to it. It's really hard to describe why it works. Coming to this video the first i watched i thought RLM would mock the film and trash on this scene, but i was pleasantly surprised at how well they reviewed it and how they got right scenes such as this.
I say that because they're a comedic channel, and literally every video about the exorcist movies has the idiotic "this movie is hilarious lol hur dur i'm so cool".
One of my favorite scenes, it was unsettling, the ambient score and uncanny atmosphere, it actually made me tear up for how haunting and depressing it was, there's people from all walks of life, even animals, children and babies were there, people who never got to live and a few people looked visibly upset like they're processing their death. No other scene regardless of genre, has hit me hard like that one. One of my favorite shots was the windows of the cathedral, I always wondered what was out there.
Halloween should be dedicated to Mike talking about Ghost Adventures.
@@stephenpaccone8120 BRO. Did you hear that bro? It sounded like a spirit. Let's check the EVP.
Yeah bro, if you listen to the EVP, the spirit definitely said "Yes, I agree. A full month of Mike talking about Ghost Adventures."
This was an intelligent response; a direct answer to a comment I made giving us more evidence that UA-cam is truly haunted.
Well this Halloween it's serial killer month. I'd pay good money to see Mike talk about that.
Yes please
This movie is a masterpiece. It holds up so well over the years.
Some things in the movie are indeed really great, I'm just sad at the end it goes totally looney tunes with the possesed grandma throwing people around with super human strenght and such
100%. One of the only movie that has scenes that un-nerve me
There’s something about the elegant shape of those shears which make them absolutely terrifying.
They are simultaneously beautiful and terrifying.
When I was about 8 years old, I'd watch MTV all the time. I can specifically remember when Exorcist 3 had commercials for its' opening, I remember the Tubular Bells song playing, I remember that shot of the Jesus statue opening its' eyes, and I remember it all because it scared the piss out of me.
In the original ending, Damien reaches into his pocket and pulls out Pizouzou's petals.
Hot dog!
@@My20GUNS So do I.
lol
Mike is representing his favorite Halloween movie: Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian
An elderly customer of mine brought me old vhs tapes to watch pretty much every week. Exorcist III showed up one day, and he said something like, "Lot of people don't like this one, but I do." Knew even before I was really into film that Exorcist III had a unique, intriguing atmosphere. You buy George C. Scott's frustration every step of the way, especially with the tight, claustrophobic editing.
why did an old dude bring you VHS tapes weekly
Plinkett @@woodlandcritterpunch
Mike: “Demons often pretend to be little children.”
Jay: “Ooooohhh 🤔”
He listens to his friend passionately yadda yaddaing, with respect. Good guy Jay
Mike: “You can’t trust a demon...”
*long pause*
I am now lead to believe that Mike is the manifestation of a demon (possibly mr Plinkett)
Sheldon Dinkleberg Nah, Mike has been possessed with the cursed spirit of Eloisecole, the Mesopotamian goddess of death
Mr Tinkelp was a real movie critic of Polish descent in Madison, Wisconsin who was murdered but believed missing and body never found. This was 1973, the year Mike was born. His unwarranted demise left his soul as an angry revenant that possessed the child to exact his wrath on the living and manifested himself as a split personality named with a bizarre spiritual reversal of syllables. Someone close to Mike is quite probably the murderer/murderess and I'm surprised this has gone on so long without action by the guilty party (unless they are deceased) and possibly Mike is unaware. I wonder where Mr Tinkelp's remains are and if their location had an impact on the cause of the haunting, or possession, if you were.
This movie is so unbelievably underrated
The scene with the dead priest and the jars of blood, is masterfully done
Although discovering it has been more pleasurable for it.
Cut from Wikipedia:
*Despite his misgivings about the studio-imposed reshoots, Blatty remarked on his pride in the finished version of Exorcist III: "It's still a superior film. And in my opinion, and excuse me if I utter heresy here, but for me...it's a more frightening film than The Exorcist."[10]*
@@solidtank7957 They nominated George C. Scott for a Razzie for this film.
I don't get why, just looking at the footage here he's great, it makes me really want to sit down and watch it all.
George C Scott is underrated as a horror actor. The Changeling is also equally great.
George C Scott is underrated in everything.
There’s that movie where he’s searching for his missing daughter and has to watch a porn she’s in and it’s all just his tortured reactions. Something about watching this guy, a square jawed old badass, breakdown in movies is so effective. And he has the balls go for it. Cry, scream, all of it.
@Grant Kerr Also too I love that movie for essentially pulling a Pet Sematary and killing the kid but they throw in the wife too and kill them off in the first 5 min
@@johansmallberries9874 I need to see this
@@luckyspurs is he tho? He has a lot of acting awards
Ah, yes, the one where Brad Dourif really _deserved_ an Academy Award super hard. No joke.
You can make fun of his Child's Play/Chucky performances all night long, it's really easy and kind of "low blow" territory, but the dude seriously acted _the flying fuck_ out of this movie. It's a super memorable performance and it lands really well, even all these years later. He's just fucking _evil_ and it's amazing.
Ya did good, Brad. The Academy might have overlooked ya, but I certainly didn't. One of the best villain performances of all time.
Eh, he would have gone up against Joe Pesci for Goodfellas. No offense to Brad Dourif, but he wasn’t that good.
He was also great in these three episodes of Star Trek Voyager, playing a villain with a redemption arc.
His performance as Chucky is the best part of those movies by far. Nothing to make fun of.
He's so good. Even in Nightshift, he's so watchable. He delivers a brilliant and deranged speech about rats in Vietnam.
He is a somewhat underrated actor for sure, in every role he gives a lot more than you would expect. No idea why he didn't get bigger and better roles. Don't get me started on his performance as Wormtongue or Piter De Vries..
Just watched this and was not disappointed. What a performance by everyone.
Yeah, they really crushed this episode of Re:View. What about the movie though?
Bryan Shouse
Ha I see what you did there. Exorcist 3 was a great movie. Brad Dourif’s performance alone is worth watching it.
I saw this movie multiple times when it ran in theatres, and would love to see it again.
Most modern horror movies aren't worthy of wiping this one's backside!
I can't hear them talk over how loud Mike's Shirt is.
21:15 That cop in the left of the frame talking to the nurses- is that.... is that Rich Evans' father?
I don't know about Rich, but he does look like that cop from their Robocop review!
Holy shit he looks exactly like him
Exorcist 3 is a masterpiece. The scene with father dyers body and blood supply is incredible. No music just the rain, and it holds on objects for a long time.
This is the best physcological horror film of all time. The tension is palpable, so eirie, and just perfect.
Physcological horror is often eirie.
Its almost an art movie, and I love those object shots, like little still life inside the movie.
I was 10 and snuck into a theater in like 1990 (or whenever this was released) to see this... The theater was freezing cold. Didn't watch all of it, left because NOPE lol. So glad this film is liked by so many others. I actually like it more than the original (both are great though). Very underrated film.
the commercials for this movie freaked me out as a kid. the jesus opening his eyes scared the crap out of me.
You guys HAVE to see The Ninth Configuration! It is brilliant!
The script in this movie is so good, it feels like real people talking and not plotty dialogue.
The Exorcist was a cultural phenomenon of its time, but TE III is timeless.
I’ll assume his mother in law is Polish because keeping a carp in the bathtub for a couple of days and then killing it, is such a Polish thing to do.
She can also be czech (same thing).
Rofl. Im Polish and my parents did the same.
I'm not polish but my mom did the same with fish. Not a lot of people know the awkwardness of a situation like a walleye with a death sentence watching you from the tub as you take a shit.
Its a Slovak thing too from what I've heard from a coworker with Slovak in-laws.
Used to be common practice in Germany as well, my grandparents regularly prepared Carp for dinner on New Year's Eve. The Carp swum for a couple of days in the bathtub in order to make it taste less of dirty old mudwater.
Holy shit that jump scare....I dont think these goosebumps will ever disappear.
Well, otherwise the movie was rather flat wasn't it?
Nope
Correction: Legion is an X-Men villain. Thats where the Bible got it from.
World of Warcraft is part of the Bible?
Millenial
Nah bud, he's a Alien Robot
@@TheSlammurai Asshole
woah woah woah woah, i gotta stop you there buddy. do not mess with my boy david. do not call my boy legion a villain, he can be an anti hero. or a rogue. but never a villain. all the bad he has done comes from his mental illness. but not from himself.
My friends and I rented this several times in the early 90s. We literally could not stop talking about the jump scare. There are also little creepy details in certain scenes and so much glorious weirdness. It's a good 'un
That scene in the hospital hallway was hands down the scariest thing I'd ever seen. I've never been able to watch this movie a second time.
This is one of my favorite thrillers of all time, and Brad Dourif’s performance is mesmerizing.
I love this movie as well - so many terrifying elements - even the jump scares are clever as hell. I'd love to own a version that was Blatty's vision without the reshoots. Thank you for reviewing this!
@@GregorySnipe - thank you for that info! I am going to look for it right now -
@@GregorySnipe They have the best dvds and bluerays.
29:10 "I need sixteen priests, three nuns, and a god damn vacation" -George C. Scott
The priest in the reshoots is played by the actor who also played the Gnome King/psychiatrist in Return to Oz and Merlin in Excalibur. Nicol Williamson, great actor!
Good catch! I could never quite place where I had seen the actor before until you mentioned Excalibur. Absolutely loved that movie and his portrayal of Merlin was just perfect, he stole every scene he appeared in.
He really was a tremendous actor. Unfortunately he had demons of his own, if you'll forgive the pun.
Fun fact the actor who plays Father Morning,the priest with the pigeon,is the legendary Nicol Williamson who played Merlin in Excalibur and Little John in Robin and Marian to name a few!
And a nod to Williamson's Sherlock Holmes in The Seven Percent Solution
It truly is an intelligent and well crafted film...
It’s one of the most successful psychological horror films ever. It’s haunting.
It's one of the greatest films from after 1972. It's generslly at the top of many Top Lists by phenomenal writers. It's tattooed on my aunt's backside.
Here's another fun fact about the random scene with Larry King in it. Right before the camera zooms in on Larry Kings face and your looking through the restaurant window, former US Surgeon General C. Everett Coop is the man sitting at the table with his iconic beard and bow tie. ..
So glad this film is finally getting the respect it's been due. I've been telling anyone who will listen to watch it since it came out! It's my second favorite horror film of all time. Fun fact: Former Surgeon General C Everett Koop is also in the diner scene.
I am happy I am not the only one who loved this movie and found it highly underrated.
Exorcist III is one of the few movies that actually scares me to my bones. Beyond the jump scares and creepiness, the discussion of the nature of evil is truly disturbing.
The Ninth Configuration is great, you should definitely see it.
Dourif is fantastic as the lead in John Huston's 1979 film, Wise Blood. Criminally underrated. Nice little connection too: DP Gerry Fisher shot both Wise Blood and The Exorcist III.
This film is great, I love it. It's horrifying and creative without gore, has one of the most effective jump scares of all times and makes me laugh so hard in parts with it's dry humor. George C Scott is simply amazing. His dialogues with Dyer are such gems!
The best part of the dream sequence is when Father Dyer says, "I'm not dreaming, Bill."
I got that Rich Little reference. I also have prostate issues.
Cool??
you need a exorcist
Don't partake in No Nut November, it's likely against your interests.
Yup, I got it, too. Wait... who am I again? Who took my Ensure.....? Lol. I just found this channel- fabulous. These guys are a riot. 👍Good luck with those prostate issues. 😂👍
Haha, same here. And yet I have the mind of a young man.
The opening credits scene is interesting. When the camera is moving down the street you can see a priest running around in the background.
Brad Dourif was brilliant in Deadwood as well. An criminally underrated actor.
A great actor, sure. Underrated? I'm not sure about that. He's done his share of schlock, but his name is golden in his business.
Hes in the movie Dune. Hes in a ton of films
@@shanegreen4076 Yes he was...the new Piter deVries will have some very big shoes to fill next year.
That "what are you telling me?" at 21:05 is such a small moment, but it is probably my favorite in the entire movie. Because of the dream, you know something bad has happened, but the way Kinderman responds just makes it clear that because of what has happened, nothing will ever be the same.
Exorcist III was excellent. For the studio having a short leash on Blatty, I thought he did a good job with this movie. I think this is Brad Dourif's best acting performance.
One of the rare occasions where the director's cut is NOT better than the original movie.
Such a great film. If the endorsement of some guy on UA-cam counts: The novel is amazing.
One of my favourite novels ever made
Im ordering it right now
Before the Exorcist, Blatty was known as a writer of comedy. His books are hilarious, including The Exorcist. It is actually a very, very funny novel.
You guys MUST see The Ninth Configuration. One of the very best films ever made. Masterfully written and directed. Also, read the books. Incredible.
Dubbing over Samuel L Jackson's voice is one of the oddest decisions I've heard of
Right up there with dubbing Mel Gibson for the North American release of Mad Max...
"What's in your wallet?"
no one knew who samuel jackson was in 1990.
Concerning the matter brought up at 8:04 in the video here, here's a quote from a 1997 issue (#21 exactly) of the magazine 'The Phantom of the Movies Videoscope .. .
"The trouble seems to be that, with many of the great fright films, once an audience knows what's coming, it's almost as if the audience needs to laugh at the film's lost ability to shock them as a form of revenge, if you will, for the scares inflicted the first time around. So then maybe it's more of a tribute than it might appear at first. "
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"I don't want them to think the devil won"
There's somthing deeply sad about the way he says that. Like he's heartbroken people have misinterpreted his message, like he darkened the world a little.
Ok when's Jaws: The Revenge re:View happening
@Vinnie Provolone Lol I bet. Yeah it's truly one of the worst sequels ever, but I would laugh my ass off if the guys actually did a review of it
I hope they do the Rob Schrab version where his dick plays the shark
They need to do a re:View of all four Jaws movies, like they did with the Psycho series.
That's a BOTW waiting to happen
One of my favorite movies of all time. Possibly one of the most underrated horror movies and sequels ever. It has a lot going for it, and the more i watch it the more i appreciate it to be honest.
I remember the second time i watched it, and when it showed that old lady arriving at the church in the beginning, i realized it was one of the nurses and catatonics from the hospital, something i didn't even noticed in my first view. haha That dream sequence has some interesting details to it too.
The scene where the nurse goes to Kinderman's house...oh my GOD! The way this movie builds suspense is brilliant as are the performances.
Agreed, fantastic sequence. The end of it is bonkers, too
I love the dialogue in Exorcist III, its written so snappy and witty. I would have loved to see the original ending though
As of October 2021, this is on Netflix! Just watched it for the first time and it absolutely holds up, so glad that RLM recommended this so that when I was looking for some spooky Halloween season viewing I knew to give it a shot. Brad Dourif completely steals the whole movie, it's a sight to behold.
Brad Dourif is incredible. Glad they uploaded this otherwise I probably wouldn’t have seen it.
This is my favourite ‘re:View’ video. I haven’t seen ‘Exorcist III’ yet but I just love listening to Mike and Jay discuss the film. I enjoy myself every time I watch it :)
Plz watch it
Have you watched the film yet?
@@stackspace Don’t worry, I plan on watching it this month. I’ve had the film on Blu-ray for a while now, saving it for October to get me in a more Halloween-y mood. I even rewatched ‘The Exorcist’ last Saturday in preparation for this. Once I’ve seen the film, I’ll let you guys know 🙂👍🏻
Good news, everyone: I finally watched ‘Exorcist III’! I chose the theatrical cut to watch and finished it just now. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and now I think it may be one of my favourite horror films. Next I have the ‘Legion’ director’s cut to see so maybe I’ll save it until next October for the Halloween season 😊
Hey, guys! Just writing to say I also watched the ‘Legion’ director’s cut for the first time a couple of weeks ago. It was the first film I watched as part of my annual horror film marathon. It was interesting to see the new scenes of the original cut in V.H.S. picture quality. I liked this version of the film, but I prefer the theatrical cut. After watching ‘Exorcist III’ a second time, albeit a different cut of the film, it’s definitely one of my favourite horror films ever 😄
Surely I'm not this first to say this but: Mike loves a movie about "a supremely disturbed and angry man". Honestly I'm shocked.
This is one of the few movies that really had me feeling uneasy while watching.
Hate to necrocomment, But the dream sequence was probably one of the most realistic depictions for a dream I've seen in film. Even the line "I'm sorry you were murdered", is just good. It feels intentional. For me, I could picture that happening in my dreams, something akin to throwing a punch that lands like a feather while dreaming.
It's the smiles that keep us going. The bits of giggles and good cheer.”
One of the editors on the film did The Thing, Escape from New York and Star Trek Motion picture! No wonder they both like it.