Dominion: Prequel To The Exorcist |
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Engelsk
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Prepare to be shaken as Warner Home Video unleashes the Exorcist film you were never meant to see!
Director Paul Schrader's original prequel to The Exorcist was initially set aside for not being gory enough for today's MTV generation in favour of Renny Harlin's "Exorcist: The Beginning" which beat it to theatres. Schrader's prequel is a more atmospheric and cerebral affair that is closer in tone to the original highly successful film, often hailed as the scariest ever.
Certain to spark debate for years to come, now fans of the Exorcist can see for themselves the previously unseen film. Radically different to Harlin's film and with new characters, Dominion is more reliant on characterisation and depth. Once again, Stellan Skarsgård stars as a younger Merrin, an archaeologist and fallen priest who struggles to find his faith in his first confrontation with Satan.
Synopsis:
In 1944, Father Lankester Merrin (Stellan Skarsgard), a parish priest in Holland, was forced by retreating Nazi soldiers to pass life-and-death judgement upon his parishioners. The experience left him with a broken spirit, his faith destroyed.
It is three years later, and Merrin has since abandoned the priesthood. Now working as an archaeologist, he has unearthed a startling discovery in the Turkana district of British East Africa: an ancient Byzantine church, preserved in pristine condition - as if it had been buried on the day it was completed.
The interior walls are covered with vivid mosaics dramatically illustrating the Archangels Michael and Lucifer clashing in battle during the War in Heaven.
This remarkable discovery attracts the attention of the archdiocese in Nairobi, who dispatches a young priest, Father Francis (Gabriel Mann), to Derati to watch over Merrin's work and make sure that the religious aspects of the dig are given the proper consideration. Although he is shocked and troubled by Merrin's lack of faith, Francis devotes himself to setting up a church school for the children of the village.
When Merrin finds a local boy, Cheche (Billy Crawford), beaten and terribly injured, he brings him to Rachel Lesno (Clara Bellar), a doctor who runs the Turkana medical clinic. Rachel sets out to help Cheche recover, although his condition is unpromising.
As the dig continues, Merrin discovers that the imposing statues within the church are guarding a secret. Buried beneath the church is an ancient crypt that contains the remnants of satanic ritual and brutal sacrifice. The church was never meant to be used for worship - it was built atop the crypt to contain the evil within it, then immediately buried.
The Derati natives are convinced that uncovering the church has unleashed a demon, and begin to violently clash with the hostile British military troops that have been sent to guard the site.
As the village rapidly disintegrates into madness, Cheche's condition radically and implausibly improves. Father Francis is convinced that Cheche is possessed and must be baptised, but Merrin resists the young priest's pleas that he intervene. However, plagued by deeply disturbing dreams and devastated by the brutality unfolding around him, he realises that he must try to recover his lost faith if they are to have any hope of overcoming the encroaching evil.
The gruelling exorcism that ensues will transport Merrin back to the horrors of the Dutch village where he first saw the true face of evil, and plunge the Derati valley into chaos and death. |
Ekstra features:
Deleted Scenes
Stills Gallery
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| Instruktør:
Paul Schrader
Skuespillere:
Adrian Black
Andrew French
Antonie Kamerling
Ben Meyjes
Billy Crawford
Burt Caesar
Clara Bellar
Eddie Osei
Evelyn Duah
Gabriel Mann
Griet van Damme
Hamadi Mwapachu
Ilario Bisi-Pedro
Israel Aduramo
Israel Oyelumade
Julian Wadham
Lorenzo Camporese
Marcello Santoni
Michele Mariotti
Niall Refoy
Nick Komornicki
Oliver Maltman
Omari Carter
Pet Chege
Ralph Brown
Rick Warden
Simon McLinden
Stellan Skarsgård
Producent:
Art Schaefer
Art Schaeffer
David C. Robinson
Guy McElwaine
James G. Robinson
Wayne Morris
Forfatter:
Caleb Carr
William Peter Blatty
William Wisher Jr.
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Tilladt fra 15 år.
