The Exorcist III
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| Directed by | William Peter Blatty |
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| Screenplay by | William Peter Blatty |
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Legion by William Peter Blatty |
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| Music by | Barry Devorzon |
| Cinematography | Gerry Fisher |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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110 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $11 million |
| Box office | $39 million |
The Exorcist III is a 1990 American supernatural horror film written and directed by William Peter Blatty. It is the third installment of The Exorcist franchise and a film adaptation of Blatty's novel, Legion (1983). The film stars George C. Scott, Ed Flanders, Jason Miller, Scott Wilson and Brad Dourif. This is the only The Exorcist film not to be distributed theatrically by Warner Bros., though Warner Bros. subsequently gained international distribution rights.
Set seventeen years after the original film (and ignoring the events of Exorcist II: The Heretic), the film centers on a character from the first film, the philosophical Lieutenant William F. Kinderman, who is investigating a baffling series of murders in Georgetown that appear to have a satanic motive behind them and furthermore have all the hallmarks of "The Gemini," a deceased serial killer. Blatty based aspects of the Gemini Killer on the real-life Zodiac Killer, who, in a January 1974 letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, had praised the original Exorcist film as "the best saterical [sic] comedy that I have ever seen."
American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer stated in interviews that he was in the habit of watching Exorcist III before killing his victims because it put him "in the mood".
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