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[00:00] What is up, you spooky bitches? We are back with another episode of The Hello Sidney Podcast here, a podcast for horror lovers where we discuss any and all things horror. And it's me, your girl, Sidney. Happy Friday, happy final Friday of religious horror month. I hope you guys have liked this month. I've had a really good time doing it. We've talked about some bangers, in my humble opinion. And today is no exception. We are talking about what I believe to be another banger. And of course, we are talking about The Exorcist III, which obviously is a sequel to the original Exorcist from 1973, which is one of my favorite movies of all time. I feel like this movie is very highly regarded in the horror community, so I was actually surprised to see that its ratings are rather low. But I think this is an incredible sequel. It is way better than the heinous atrocity that was The Exorcist II, which I have watched once in my life, and it was so awful and so boring. I genuinely don't remember a thing about it other than it's just bad. So that's why I didn't talk about The Exorcist II, and probably never will, because I never want to put myself through watching that again. But The Exorcist III, phenomenal. And this is a movie that when people tell me that they liked The Exorcist III better than they liked the original movie, even though I don't agree with that, I respect it because I'm like, honestly, that's fair, because The Exorcist III is a fucking banger. Incredible cast, incredible performances. I love how they continue the story from The First Exorcist. I just love this movie. I really do. I think it has like a cult following, and I am part of that cult proudly. So without further ado, let's get into The Exorcist III. So this one is also based on a book by William Peter Blatty. So he wrote the book The Exorcist that the first movie was based on, and then he wrote a sequel to The Exorcist called Legion. And that's what this book is based on. And William Peter Blatty actually directed this movie. So we got to see his work come to life, which I think is really cool. He did write the screenplay, and he also wrote the screenplay for the original movie. So he's always been very involved with this franchise. Was not involved in the second movie, though. The second movie is not based on one of his books. It's just a continuation of the first movie slash, I guess, the first book you could say. And it's just the only way he's credited in that movie is it's based on his characters. So he does not have anything to do with that, luckily. He stayed away from that, so good for him. But he came back for the third movie, which I fucking love. So the third movie is about an hour and 50 minutes long. It has a 6.5 and a 59% on IMDb, or I'm sorry, 6.5 on IMDb, 59% on Rotten Tomatoes. 6.5 isn't bad for a horror movie. 59%, even though I still don't agree with 6.5, I think this movie deserves more than that, and I think a 59% is extremely low. So I don't know what the fuck the critics are on. I never know what the critics are on, honestly. But again, this movie definitely has a cult following. And I feel like I've never really met somebody who didn't like it. Anytime I talk about this movie, it's talked about in very high regard. So again, I don't know where the fuck these critics are coming from, but whatever. Fuck them. So the movie opens up. We see that we are in Georgetown in 1990, which of course Georgetown is where the events of the original movie take place. We see a boy's rowing team on the water. That'll kind of come into play later. And we see a priest walking down the street. And we get a shot of the steps from the first movie, the steps that Damien Caris was thrown down, those very treacherous steps. And we get a shot of those. And then we cut to our main character who was played by George C. Scott, who was a fucking icon, like an incredible actor. And he stars in this movie. So he's sitting at his desk and he looks at a picture of himself, and Damian Carus, of course, the priest from the original movie. And he looks at it and he's like, oh, Damian. So you can tell he obviously was friends with this person. And then suddenly Tubular Bells starts to play. Tubular Bells being, I think, one of the scariest horror movie theme songs of all time. Top three, at the very least. I think it's up there with me. For me, I think Jaws is like, you know, takes the cake because that gives me anxiety. But the ones that truly scare me to my core are The Exorcist. Anytime I hear Tubular Bells, I immediately like tense up and signs. The theme song to signs, I immediately tense up, scares the shit out of me. But Tubular Bells starts to play, and we get another shot of those stairs, but it's very foggy this time, and we get a shot of the town. And we now cut to a church, and we see that there is a rose on top of this bowl of what looks like blood, like it looks like there's blood in it. And the rose is kind of going to be a consistent image. You can see throughout this movie. But there's a bunch of religious imagery in this church, of course, like all these statues and everything. But then suddenly we hear this like dark, growling, demonic voice say, preacher. And when it says that, the front door to the church bursts open, and wind comes flying in, and there's Bible pages flying all around, and we get the title card. We then get a POV of somebody walking down a street at night, and as this person's walking, they pass by this boy in a white t-shirt, this black boy in a white t-shirt, that'll be important. And he hands this person a rose, and we're getting a man's voice over saying, I have dreams of a rose and falling down a long flight of stairs. And we see a POV of somebody now tumbling down that long flight of stairs that we've been seeing, that we know from the first movie. So we then see helicopters the next day, flying overhead over this river, over this body of water. They're flying over a church, and inside that church, we see a priest practicing his sermon. It's just the priest and the altar boy in there. And meanwhile, we see the police posted up on the side of the river. There's this woman who is crying, she's being consoled, and we see that there is a body underneath the sheet, it's covered, and Lieutenant William Kinderman, who is George C. Scott's character, comes over and looks at the body. Now, George C. Scott plays Kinderman in this movie. He did not play Kinderman in the first movie because Kinderman is a character in the original Exorcist. He is the detective that is investigating the death of Burke Dennings. So he has a smaller role in the first Exorcist, but he is there. So this is the same character just played by a different actor because the actor from the original movie had passed away in 1976, so they couldn't get him back, obviously. So George C. Scott, it was. We then cut back to the church, and we see that the priest is done with his sermon, the altar boy is getting ready to leave, and as he leaves, he asks the priest, why did you mention Damien Carys in your prayer for the dead? This priest is going to be Father Dyer. Father Dyer was also in the first movie, much younger. He was the younger priest in the original The Exorcist. He wasn't involved in the exorcism, but he was there. He was at the party, he was friends with the family. So we know that Father Dyer knew Damien Carys as well, and the altar boy asks him, why did you include him in your prayer? He died 15 years ago, and Dyer says, yes, 15 years today, and he gets kind of defensive about it, and he ends up telling the altar boy to leave, which he does. But we then get a flash to Damien being thrown down the stairs in the first movie, thrown out the window and down the stairs where we know that he fell to his death. So we then see that same priest, Father Dyer, at lunch with some other guy, and they're talking about movies and just like random stuff. And then Father Dyer starts talking about kindermen and how he's going to the movies with him tonight because he gets kind of depressed on this day because it's the anniversary of Damien Carys' death. So I want to go cheer him up. So we then cut to kindermen, who's at his office. And they're all kind of frustrated because this body that they had found near the river, which we're going to find out more about eventually, this body, they have nothing to go off of. Like they have no idea who this could have possibly been. They have no, they don't even know what the murder weapon was. And kindermen has somebody get the file on the Gemini killer. And the other cops are kind of like, why would you do that? Like the Gemini killer has been dead for 15 years. And kindermen's like, yeah, I'm aware of that. But he insists that he get the file. So we then see kindermen go home. He greets his wife and he has a young daughter as well. So he greets her, she's like a teenager, but he greets the two of them. And he says he's got to go cheer up father Dyer. So they're going to the movies together, which I always find this funny how they both feel like they're cheering each other up, which I feel like they both are, but they're both also refusing to admit the fact that they need cheering up because they missed their friend. But we eventually see father Dyer on the sidewalk waiting for Kinderman, who pulls up and they're going to see the movie It's a Wonderful Life. So they go in and eventually they get out. And Kinderman doesn't want to go home yet because he tells the story about how his wife's mother is visiting. And she wants to like cook a carp for them, but she insists that it be fresh. So they currently have a carp swimming around their bathtub. And he's basically just like, I haven't had a bath for three days. I don't want to go home. I can't see that carp. So Father Dyer is like, okay. So we cut to them eating. Father Dyer is a good friend. So they're eating out. And Kinderman asks, they start having a conversation about religion. And Kinderman starts asking like, why would God invent death and cancer and murderers and monsters? And Father Dyer just says, it all works out in the end of time, which isn't that convincing to me, honestly. Not that convincing. But the reason that Kinderman is bringing this up is because he is, he obviously is a detective and he's upset by the crime scene that he just recently saw. So Father Dyer asks about this, the kid on the dock, the one in the river. And we find out that this kid was this young black boy named Thomas. And the reason that I said the kid earlier was black is because we're going to find out that's the same kid in these dream sequences. That's the same kid. So he's been murdered and he was 12 years old. And Kinderman explains how he dies and it's horrific. And basically the killer drove something into each of his eyes and then cut off his head. And in place of his head, they found a statue or the head of a statue of Jesus in blackface. All of this is horrific and it just gets worse. Because then we also find out that the boy on top of all this was also crucified on a pair of rowing oars. So that's why I said in the beginning, like the boy's rowing is kind of going to be important because that comes back. Which what an awful, horrible way to go. And it's going to get worse again, like finding out how it happened, it's going to get worse. So we then cut to another priest in a church. And this priest is holding confession. And a woman goes in, an old woman goes into the confessional and she says, I have a need to confess so many things. And she has this old woman voice and it's really creepy. And it gets creepier because we can't see her face. We can only hear her. And the priest insists God forgives all of our sins. And the woman says, all things, not big ones. There were 17. First was a waitress. I cut her throat and let her bleed. It's a problem I'm working on, all the bleeding. And as she's saying this, the priest just looks terrified and shocked because I'm also terrified. What the fuck is going on? And this woman then starts laughing maniacally. And then we just start to hear screaming and sobbing as we're getting shots of the church. So we don't see what's happening. We're seeing all this like religious imagery inside the church. And then we see this old woman walking out of the church. And as she's leaving the church, we cut to another woman who is screaming bloody murder. And we pan the camera and we see that there is blood leaking onto the floor. So we know that obviously something just happened to this priest. So we then cut to the cops being here in the church. And they're photographing all the blood because there's blood all over the confessional inside of it. So obviously this man was murdered inside the confessional. And kinderman comes in and the body is lying there underneath a sheet. And he raises one side of it and he looks at the hand. And we see that one of the hands has its finger cut off. And he goes and looks at the other hand. And eventually the body is taken away. And we cut to later on in the church. It's dark outside now and we see kinderman in the confessional. And he's like sliding the thing back and forth. You can tell he's trying to figure out how this worked, who could have done this. And suddenly there's somebody else on the other side when he opens it. And this is somebody he works with who does the autopsies. And he tells kinderman that they did the autopsy on the boy from the doc, the one that died horribly, that was crucified. And this makes it worse because he tells kinderman that the boy didn't die from the decapitation. He was actually injected with this drug, this drug that I cannot pronounce, so I'm not going to try. But it's a drug that's used during electroshock therapy, and it's used to cause total paralysis. So basically, this boy was paralyzed, he couldn't move, he couldn't scream, and he was conscious the whole time that this was happening to him. And he died from slow asphyxiation, like because that drug attacks your respiratory system. So he died from a slow asphyxiation, feeling everything, knowing everything that was happening to him. And that is one of the most horrific deaths I have ever heard of in a movie and in life, period. Whoever came up with this, probably William Peter Blatty. You're a sick fuck, because what the fuck? That is horrific. So we then cut to another day, and we see Kinderman at the hospital, and he ends up going to see Father Dyer, because Father Dyer has landed himself in the hospital, and Father Dyer is insisting that it's nothing serious, like they're just running a few tests, like it's just my brother had the same issues. And Kinderman is like, yeah, your brother died when he was 30 years old, like maybe you should take this a little seriously. And they kind of argue about it, like Kinderman gets upset at Dyer for not taking this seriously. But eventually a nurse comes in and breaks it up, even though she's coming in the wrong room. This hospital just seems super unorganized, like nobody knows where the fuck they're going or what's going on. But eventually Kinderman leaves and he doesn't notice. But as he's leaving, he passes a Jesus statue whose head is missing. And again, remember the boy that was crucified in place of his head was the head of a Jesus statue. So now we, the audience, know where it came from and Kinderman didn't see it. But we see Kinderman meet up with someone and this person is telling him how the priest's vocal cords were paralyzed. It's the autopsy guy again, talking about the priest that just got murdered. His vocal cords were paralyzed so he couldn't scream, which allowed the killer to take his time. And the same drug was used on that person that was used on the boy on the dock. And Kinderman now knows that this killer must have some sort of medical knowledge because he's able to drug them just the right amount. So like they don't die, but they're conscious long enough to feel everything that's happening to them. And the man also tells Kinderman that they found some prints inside the divider, like the divider of the confessional. And Kinderman is like, okay, so obviously it matches the one print that we found at the murder on the dock, right? And the guy says no. And Kinderman is shocked. He's like, so you're telling me that two different people did this. So now he's all sorts of fucking confused because that doesn't make any goddamn sense. So that night, we see Kinderman asleep, and he has this very strange dream. And essentially this dream is him in what looks like a train station, but it's filled with hospital beds. And the nurses are all these men wearing these huge angel wings. And like there's these old women playing piano and like playing instruments. There's like angels manning an info desk, and there's angels holding patients' hands. And Kinderman walks through. Fabio is one of the angels, which honestly is fitting. He looks like an angel, like he should be. And then that crucified boy, Thomas, comes up to Kinderman. And we see that he has like staples around his head, because again, we know he got decapitated. He's got like staples around his neck as if it's keeping his head on. And he says hi to Kinderman, and he's like, hey, Kinderman, I miss you. And Kinderman says the same thing, because he had known this boy. And he says that, and the boy runs away. And then we see like another male angel playing tarot, not playing tarot, doing tarot. And the person that he's doing tarot with is Father Dyer. And Father Dyer looks at Kinderman and is like, what is this? Like, are you having the same dream that I'm having? And Dyer just says, I'm not dreaming. And we see that he also has his neck sewn up like Thomas did, which we notice is kind of weird. But the next morning, we see Kinderman wake up and he answers his phone, and he's like, what exactly are you telling me? So we cut to Kinderman at the hospital, the cops are all there, it's very quiet, it's very somber, and Kinderman walks into Dyer's hospital room and we find that he's dead. So this dream was kind of like a premonition or like a foreshadowing or like Dyer actually coming to see his friend because he died in the night. And we see that there's a sheet covering his body, and pics are being taken of everything obviously, and Kinderman looks at the hands. He goes to like look at the hands and both hands because we can tell that there's something with the hands. The last one had a finger cut off. He's looking specifically at the hands. And then eventually it's out of frame, so we don't see the body, but we see Kinderman pull back the sheet and he's just like, oh, like he's like disturbed and he covers it up again. And he starts crying. Like this is his best friend. So Kinderman also notices that there are these cups on this table nearby. And he asks the other cop, like, what are these cups? And the cop says it's blood because all of Father Dyer's blood was drained out of him and they were put perfectly into these cups. There was not a drop missing. There is not even a smudge on any of these cups. Like I simply don't know how it was possible. The only blood not in the cups is the blood that is smeared on the wall, that is written on the wall. And Kinderman is like, what? And he turns around and he pulls down this sheet and he notices that on the wall in Father Dyer's blood, it is written, it's a wonderful life, which is the movie that they had seen together. So Kinderman comes out and he tells the cops, he orders that the hospital be locked out. He's like, nobody in, nobody out except for emergencies. And then Kinderman asks, who discovered the body? Like when it was discovered and by who? So we cut to Kinderman talking to this nurse who we're not going to know this nurse's name until the end. But she's like kind of an older woman and she's just very standoffish. And she even makes a comment later about how she's a bitch because she kind of is. But Kinderman is also kind of an asshole to her. So I get why she responds the way she does. But Kinderman is talking to this nurse and she's the last one to have seen Dyer alive. So she went in at 5 a.m. to medicate him and then went back at 6 a.m. and he was dead. And Kinderman starts asking like, did you see anybody go in and out of the room? And he starts getting angry because again, he obviously has a personal connection to this case. But eventually the nurse tells him that she saw Mrs. Clalia outside of his room and that's the only person that she had seen around. So we now cut to this room where it's all these like older people in wheelchairs, they look kind of catatonic and it turns out this is a word for people who are catatonic or people who are just like mentally ill or have autism and can't really do anything for themselves. So we see this, this is a funny comedic relief moment. We see one of these old men go up to the nurse's station, he just stares at her for a while and then he takes his robe and he just flashes her. And we see this from the back and this woman literally just like, ugh, which it's just, it's hilarious to me because I know this is shit nurses have to deal with on a daily basis. So Kinderman goes to see the doctor in this ward. This dude's name is Dr. Temple. And it's at this point, Dr. Temple tells him, like all the people here are like catatonic or they have autism or dementia, like some sort of thing where they're, they're pretty much out of it. And this old woman comes up to Kinderman and asks like, are you my son? So you can tell all these people are just not all there. So Kinderman is led into Mrs. Klailea's room, and he introduces himself and she tells him to go away. And she again is clearly out of it too. She starts asking if he's the radio repair man and if he can fix her radio and he lies and says that, yes, that's what I'm here for. And she's like, okay, there's dead people talking to me on it, which that's eerie as fuck. And she goes here and she goes to hand him the radio, but there's nothing, there's literally nothing in her hands. And eventually we move on from that. And Mrs. Clalia tells Kinderman, you have a very kind face, you will do well. And she starts humming, which again, that's also very cryptic and eerie. And the doctor, as they're leaving, Dr. Temple tells Kinderman, she was actually talkative today because she's a catatonic and she's usually very quiet. So Dr. Temple ends up bringing Kinderman to what he calls the disturbed ward. He's like, let's go to this other ward. And to get into this ward, you have to go through two sliding doors. And then there's also, to get out, there is like a keypad and you have to punch in a code. The code changes every day. So obviously this is like more of a high security unit. And they go in and we see that there are steel doors on both sides of the hallway. Obviously there's rooms. And as they're walking down the hallway, somebody says Bill, like somebody whispers the name Bill, which is obviously William Kinderman. And Kinderman stops and he goes to the door where this voice came from and he looks inside. And all he can see is somebody in the dark sitting on a bed in a straight jacket. Like we cannot see their face because it's completely dark in there. But someone eventually comes in and tells Kinderman that he's needed somewhere else. So he leaves. So we never see this guy's face. But we do hear a man's voice start reciting what sounds like a Bible verse. And the camera focuses now we're in the room. The camera focuses on this man on the bed in the straight jacket. And we hear him say, I was only 21 when I died. And we cut away. We still have not seen his face. So now we cut to one of the doctors yelling at Kinderman, because he's freaking everybody out. He's like, how am I supposed to keep my staff and like the patients all calm when you're shutting everything down? Everybody's nervous. It's chaos. Everybody in the office is yelling. And eventually Kinderman speaks over everybody. And he's like, have you ever heard of the Gemini killer? And they're like, yeah, he's dead. And Kinderman says, yeah, he died in the electric chair 15 years ago. But do you recall stories about his strange MO? So in the paper, it said that his MO was that the middle finger of the victim's left hand was always severed. And on the victim's back, the killer carved out a sign of the zodiac, which was the Gemini symbol. That's how he got his name. And everybody's like, yeah, I remember that. And that was 15 years ago. And Kinderman at this point, like they're all trying to speak. And he yells at them to shut up. And he starts crying because again, his best friend just got killed. So he's trying to figure this out. And Kinderman goes on to say, the Gemini MO you heard about was a lie. That was something that we fed the newspapers to weed out the crazy people who were gonna confess to the murder. What he really did was he cut off the finger on the right hand and he carved the Gemini symbol into the palm of the left hand, not on the back. So it was similar, but we threw it off in the newspapers. And only Homicide knew that that was the case. But these three decapitations that we've just had, this crucified boy, the priest in the church, and Father Dyer, they all have the correct MO. They have the severed finger on the right hand and they have the sign of Gemini on the left palm. How could they have that if this wasn't the actual Gemini killer or something to do with it? So Kinderman's confused. And he says how Gemini wrote letters to the newspapers. He was always bragging about his murders. And when he wrote, he always doubled his final Ls. So like in Wonderful. And when he saw Wonderful written on the wall in blood, Wonderful at the end had two Ls on it. And he also brings up how all the victims' names for the Gemini started with the letter K, because his father's name started with the letter K and he hated his father, and he wanted to kill his father over and over again. And the other people are like, okay, well, Father Dwyer's first name was Joseph. And Kinderman says yes, but his middle name was Kevin. So he does kind of fit the MO. So we then see as he says Kevin, we cut back to that man in the straight jacket in the darkness, and he just says one word, Kevin. So there's this weird like psychic connection. We can already tell. And Kinderman starts looking at these medical shears, and these medical shears are like super intense. I don't know if this is a real medical thing, but this is fucking terrifying. They're massive. They're these big, silver, shiny shears, and you have to like use some force to open them, but then the second you let go, they snap shut immediately. It's like the fucking jaws of life, and they're very sharp. So basically Kinderman is wondering if this could have been used for the decapitation because he notices that the one that he's being shown has a sticker on it because it's brand new, it just came in, and he wonders where is the old one. We then see Kinderman talking to another priest, and he wonders what the priests had in common. Like what did the priest in the church and Father Dyer have in common? Like what is the link here? And as he's in this priest's office talking about this, suddenly the clock stops ticking, and it's a grandfather clock, so it was very loudly ticking, and it stops, and they both notice and they look at it. And suddenly the priest is like, it could be that exorcism with a McNeil kid. And Kinerman's confused. He's like the one Damien Karras did 15 years ago, and he says, yeah, like there might be a connection to that. But before Kinerman can ask any more questions about that, suddenly they hear the door creak open, and they hear whispering in another language. So Kinerman walks towards the door, and then he sees another door pass that creak open as well by itself, and he hears more whispering, and the lights start to flicker. He goes into the hallway, the lights start to flicker, and then they go out completely. And then Kinerman hears more whispering, and he sees these lights down this long dark hallway start to flicker, and then they go out entirely too. So now it's dark, and Kinerman starts to hear this growling noise, and he's like looking around for where it is, looking around, and suddenly somebody bumps into him, and he gets startled. It's a woman, it's the secretary to the priest, I think. And she gets startled, she laughs, and she gives him something to give to the priest, and she runs off, and she laughs it off, and then the lights come back on. So everything is fine. And Kinderman goes back to give this thing to the priest, and it turns out it was like a speech or something that he needed. And as he goes to give him this, Kinderman asks this priest if he believes in possession. And the priest is like, well, who cares? But if you want to talk about possession, I suggest that you talk to the chaplain at the hospital, because he has supposedly performed an exorcism before, and they say that his hair turned white overnight. And he tells Kinderman that this priest that he's talking was close with Father Dyer and Father Karras, Damien Karras, and he also was friends with the McNeil family. And the other priest that was killed, talking about the one in the confessional, that's the priest that gave Damien the permission to investigate the McNeil case. So they're all connected to this possession in some way. And Kinderman is realizing this, but then he's like, okay, but what about the crucified boy? And this priest tells him that Damien gave linguistics, the linguistic school here, a tape when he recorded something that Regan, the possessed girl was saying because he wanted to prove that she was speaking in a different language. And it turns out she wasn't speaking in a different language. She was speaking in English backwards. We remember this from the first movie. And he says, the expert who figured out that she was speaking English in reverse was, and Kinderman cuts him off and says, it was the boy's mother. So he, the boy in a backhanded way, in like a one degree of separation way was also connected to the exorcism, because his mother listened to that tape of Regan and found out that she was speaking English backwards. So that's how the boy is connected. So now we're understanding that everybody that is dying had some sort of connection to the possession case, to Regan's case. So we cut to what looks like a monastery and we see a priest with white hair. He's like a younger person, kind of, so he shouldn't really have full white hair, it seems. But he has white hair and he's in his room and he goes to his window and he finds a dead bird on his window sill. And then suddenly as he's looking at this, the cross behind him falls off of his wall and we zoom in on this crucifix and we see that Jesus' face is bleeding. And the priest goes to pick it up and suddenly it gets dark and wind starts blowing aggressively and it's blowing in the room and the priest looks nervous. But we cut to the police station and we see that they've gotten a fingerprint match and Kinderman sees this and he's like, that's impossible. So we cut to Kinderman going to speak with Mrs. Clalia, that old catatonic woman. And he asks if she remembers coming in Father Dyer's room. They're in Father Dyer's room. So clearly the fingerprint matched her. And he's like, do you remember coming in Father Dyer's room? Do you remember touching those jars that were here? And why did you do it? Like, why did you touch the jars? And she's not answering. She's not giving him a single thing. She's just staring at him. And he's asking, like, is there, was there anybody else in the room who was in here that made you do it? And all she says is that radio isn't mine. Because again, she's not all there. The doctor ends up talking about the man that they have in isolation. We hear the doctor. He's, like, reciting this. And it turns out he, like, literally has a speech written down, which is weird. We're immediately like, why does the doctor have to have a speech written down to remember this? He's practicing what he's going to say. And what he's saying is the man that you looked in on in isolation, he was brought in 15 years ago and the police picked him up wandering the canal and he had total amnesia. And again, now we cut to him and we see that he's reading this off of a piece of paper. He's practicing a speech. And then Kinderman comes in and he's like, oh, there's something that you wanted to tell me. And the doctor's like, yes, like sit down. This is Dr. Temple. And he has Kinderman sit and he repeats the speech that he just saw about the guy in isolation. He's like, okay, yeah, we picked him up 15 years ago. He had total amnesia. He had no ID and his condition just got worse. And he became catatonic. But recently, just about six weeks ago, he slowly started to come out of it. And suddenly, he got really violent, and we've been giving him electroshock therapy. But the thing is, he says he's the Gemini killer. And Kinderman backs up completely shocked because he's like, what, like, this is all coming together because how is this MO matching the Geminis? So Kinderman asks for this guy's file. And then he goes to speak to that nurse again. Again, the older nurse, that's like kind of a bitch. She refers to herself as a bitch. But she goes, he goes to talk to that nurse and he talks about this man and he asks if he was dressed like a priest when he came in 15 years ago, as if she would remember that. But she says she can't remember. And because she can't remember, he gets angry and he's like yelling at her again. But Kinderman then tells another cop where to station officers. So they're stationing officers all over the hospital. And he also tells this cop to get a record of Damien Caris and see if he ever had a saliva test done so we can get his DNA. So Kinderman also tells this guy, Caris was a saint and he was my best friend. And 15 years ago, he jumped or was pushed. He's aware of that. He jumped or was pushed to his death. And I watched him die. But I think the man in cell 11 is Damien Caris. And it's at this moment that everybody like in the audience, speaking of me, audience of one in my house, when I first watched this, you're like, what? Damien Caris? Which I wish they had hid from the opening credits that Jason Miller was in this movie, which I guess you could have chalked it up to like maybe it was flashbacks, but spoiler alert, he's in this movie because Damien Caris is indeed in this movie, which we're about to find out right now because we see Kinderman go into this isolation room, into this cell, and sure enough, the man that he looks at, the one that we've only been seeing in darkness in the straight jacket is Damien Caris. Obviously 15 years older, but it's Damien fucking Caris, who we saw die. And Kinderman is obviously super fucking confused. And Damien Caris just looks up at Kinderman and just says, it's a wonderful life. And Kinderman asks him, who are you? And he replies, I am no one, many, which super fucking eerie right there. And Kinderman asks him, are you Damien Caris? And this person who looks like Damien Caris says, you have no medical records or fingerprints on Damien Caris, which is true. Kinderman knows that's true. They couldn't find anything. And he says no. And he asks again, are you Damien Caris? And Damien looks at him and says, I am the Gemini killer, James Veneman, which he's been dead for 15 years. What are you talking about? But then also, so is Damien Caris. So what the fuck is going on here? And Kinderman says that he's dead, talking about the Gemini killer. And Damien says, no, he's not. And then he starts to talk about, remember Karen, the little girl, she had ribbons in her hair, describes how she was dressed, where she was found. He's like, I killed her and explains where he picked her up, where he dumped her and he kept some of her. He kept part of her and he says, I still hear her screaming. I also killed that boy by the river and the priests whose names began with K. And I usually kill at random, but the boy and the priests were different because I had to settle a score on behalf of a friend, which Kinderman sitting there in fucking shock because he's like, how do you know all this shit? And he asks him what friend? And Damien says, a friend over there on the other side, I can't tell you who, it's forbidden. And then suddenly there's this loud growling noise that seems to be coming out of Damien. And it's loud enough that Kinderman literally like covers his ears. And Damien says, I do that rather well, huh? Like I've been taught by the master. And Kinderman asks, who's that? And Damien says, the one, there is only one. So obviously we're now getting the idea that he's talking about literally Satan, the devil himself. And then Damien or whoever, whatever this thing is in Damien's body asks Kinderman, who is this Damien you mention? And Kinderman is like, don't you know? And this thing says, I know nothing, except I must go on killing. And you must get them to call them the Gemini killer, like call me the Gemini killer. And Kinderman is like, no, the Gemini is dead. And then suddenly this is the, I think this is one of my favorite transitions in a movie ever, because we go from Carus' eyes, we get a close up of his eyes, but now we get a close up of different eyes. And there's a voice change. And if you are a horror fan, you immediately know who this is, because suddenly this voice says, no, I am not, I'm alive. And just in the voice, because it's just the eyes, but just in the voice, you know, this is, this is Brad Dourif, this is fucking Chucky. And suddenly we zoom out and it's Brad Dourif. And the way that this is done, I think is brilliant. The reason that this was done was because they could not originally get Jason Miller for this movie because he had like a scheduling conflict. He was doing something else at the time. So they hired Brad Dourif. By the way, this is Brad Dourif's best role. But I think by far, I think even better than One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which he got an Oscar nomination for. I think he does phenomenal in this movie. Brad Dourif got the role and he was to play the Gemini killer. That kind of killed the whole Damien Karras thing. But then Jason Miller became available after the fact. So when it was time to do reshoots, Jason Miller was available. So they had already filmed the whole movie when they had Jason Miller come in and film his part. But because they had already filmed this with Brad, and obviously they loved what he did so much, they intercut it. So they gave them both a role. So when Kinderman is looking at this person, he's seeing Damien Karras. This is who the physical body looks like Damien Karras. But when they interchange it with Brad Dourif, it's because Brad Dourif is the actual Gemini Killer. So this James guy who was the Gemini Killer that died 15 years ago, we're eventually going to see his mugshot, and it's Brad Dourif. So we're just seeing this person as they truly are, even though Kinderman is seeing him as the body that he's in, which is the body of Damien Karras. But I love the back and forth here, and I love that close up shot and how, again, he has such a distinctive voice that you immediately are like, that's Brad Dourif and I fucking know it. So again, Kinderman is still seeing him as Damien Karras at this point, but we are seeing him as somebody totally different. He starts giving a speech. The Gemini starts speaking and he says, I go on, I breathe, like talking about himself, the Gemini killer. Look at me, what do you see? And Kinderman says, a man that looks like Damien Karras. And the Gemini killer says, if you looked with the eyes of faith, you would see me. Tell the press that I am the Gemini or I'll punish you. And he's like, what are you talking about? And suddenly the Gemini starts to sing in a woman's voice in Latin. Like a woman's voice starts to come out of him and it's in Latin. And then when he's done with that, the Gemini starts talking about place. And he's like, did you know that you're talking to an artist? Like he's talking about artists and plays and stuff. He's like, did you know that you're talking to an artist? I do special things to my victims. For example, a decapitated head can continue to see for 20 seconds. So when I have one, I always hold it up so that it can see its own body, which what a sadistic fucking thing, dude. What a sadistic thing. Like William Peter Blatty wrote this character. And I'm like low key scared of that man because what, how do you come up with such a sadistic fucking character that does such sadistic, terrible, horrific things? What the fuck? So he says that and he starts laughing. And he says, it makes me chuckle every time. Life is fun. It's a wonderful life. In fact, like he's like taunting kinderman now. And the Gemini then says, it's too bad about Father Dyer. I killed him and he explains the drugs that he used that he gave him, the paralytic, the one that I can't pronounce, but he pronounces it perfectly. And he says, I gave it to him to paralyze him. And then I inserted a three foot catheter into him and moved it through his arm into the vein that goes to his heart. And then I hold his legs up and squeeze out the blood manually. So he's explaining how he perfectly got every drop of blood out of this man's body. And he explains it in very great detail. And then he says, and then off comes the head with no drop of blood. I call that showmanship. He's all proud of it. And Kinderman straight up just punches him in the face, which I love because he's like, you're talking about my best friend, like fuck you. Straight up punches him in the face. So the Gemini kind of laughs about this and he's like, oh, you don't like what I'm talking about? Let me liven things up for you a bit. The master is throwing me a scrap, a reward for faithful service. And it's going to be something fun and random. And then he says good night and he just falls asleep. So we then see, we cut to Kinderman and we cut back and we see that we're seeing it as Charis again. And Kinderman looks at him and he presses a button to get out of the room. And they open the door, the nurse goes in and is like, he's hemorrhaging. You broke his nose. Like he's screaming pissed that he broke his nose. But Kinderman tells the cop out there how he knew about a little girl named Karen. And that little girl named Karen was never put in the papers. The public did not know about her. So obviously, this person, whoever and whatever this is, has deeper knowledge of what the Gemini killer actually did. And we eventually see Kinderman talking to that nurse again. And he asks if he passed out. And she says yes, and it's not the first time it's happened. And she says that he has passed out a couple times this week. It was Sunday the first time, and then once the next day, and then early yesterday, just before we found Father Dyer. So now Kinderman's wheels are turning. And he's like, does it seem like a normal sleep? And she says, well, there's nothing normal about that man. But when we like hook him up to a machine, we see that his autonomic system slows down. So all of his systems slow down, with the exception of his brain. His brain wave activity accelerates. So Kinderman then asks this nurse if she told this guy what happened to Father Dyer. And she's like, no, of course not. Why would I? Nobody would do that. So there's no way he could have known. The nurse then asks, why did you hit him? To which Kinderman doesn't respond, because he's not about to get into that. But the nurse then says, save your servant. And Kinderman says, what? And he's like, it's something that man said one time, but it keeps running through my mind because it was odd how he said it. Like he said it, but he spoke in a different voice. Like the voice he said it in sounded decent. It sounded nice. And there was so much emotion in his voice. He sounded desperate. And Kinderman says, is there anything else that he said in this voice? And she says, one other thing, and it was kill it. So we cut to Kinderman in a library. He's looking through a bunch of Bibles and he finds a passage where he finds the word, save your servant, who trusts in you, my God. And we find out that it's in the right for exorcism. So whoever this is, which we're going to find out later. And I think it's Damien Karras trying to come through. And that's why he's saying he had a nice, kind voice. He's trying to come through and be like, save your servant, giving them the hint that you need to do an exorcism, kill it. You need to kill this thing. So we now see that priest from earlier, the one with the white hair that was in the monastery, we see him praying and we're going to see him again later. But we cut to Kinderman who goes back home and he's reading a Bible about a man possessed by Legion and for we are many. And he repeats the word many because he remembers Karras saying that to him. Now, Kinderman's daughter, whose name is Julie, by the way, comes in, kisses him good night and Kinderman keeps working. He opens the Gemini file and this is where we see that the Gemini's mug shot, this James guy is Brad Dorif. So obviously, this was who he was when he was alive 15 years ago. But that night at the hospital, this is where we get what I believe to be the greatest jump scare in horror movie history. If you ask a lot of people, what is the greatest jump scare ever? I guarantee you, probably like seven out of 10 of them will say this. Honestly, it's that iconic. But it's nighttime, and we cut back to the hospital. The way that the camera is positioned is it's all the way down the hallway, and it's just stationary. It's sitting there, and we can see a nurse in a white dress and a red sweater, and she's at the desk, and she hears a noise coming from one of the rooms down the hallway, like towards the camera. She goes to look, and we see that there's police stationed up outside, but at one point one of the cops walks away. So she starts to walk down the hallway, and eventually she slowly enters this room, and she goes in, and now the camera is in the room, and she hears the noise again, and she turns, and she sees that there's just a cup of ice water in there, and it's just like cracking. So the cracking noise of the ice is what she was hearing. So she like relaxes for a second. But then suddenly a patient jumps out of bed and is like, what are you doing in here? So that's jump scare number one. You think that's going to be the jump scare. You don't expect that there's another one that's going to be coming. So that's jump scare one, which is like not the greatest one, like not the one that I'm talking about, but it does get you. So she's like, oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. So she leaves the room, she closes the door, and now we get the camera again positioned back in the hallway. So this nurse goes back to the desk and we see the cop that is stationed there come back and he sits down. And the nurse then goes to another door. And we can tell from the positioning that this is the door that was Father Dyer's room, because Father Dyer's room was right in front of the nurse's station. So that's the room that she goes to. And as she's going to this room, the cop behind her gets up and walks away. And the nurse goes in this room. And when she comes out of the door, she closes the door and she turns her back and goes to walk away. And it's at this moment that the camera zooms in, and this intense music plays, and we see the door open, and this figure dressed in all white come out with their arms outstretched like this to grab the nurse. And it's just the way it's done. I think this is a fucking master class in how to do a jump scare properly, like how to build the tension, how to fake somebody out because you faked us out with that first jump scare. So we're not necessarily expecting that something big is going to happen. I think it's brilliant. And I think the way that they dressed this figure, the way that the white gown is like flowing behind them just adds this extra layer to it. Like there's like white covering their face. It's it's it's beautiful. It's brilliant. It's a great jump scare. If you're going to watch anything from this movie, have it be this jump scare. So after we briefly see that, we then cut to an image of that decapitated statue. So we're getting the the implication here that this nurse was also beheaded. So we then cut to the cops wheeling out a body from that room. And Kinderman is there now and he's watching. And the autopsy guy informs Kinderman that the nurse was split down the middle. She was cut open. Her vital organs were removed. And there were objects stuffed into her body. And Kinderman is like what kind of objects. And the autopsy guy just says rosaries. And then she was sewn back up with those inside of her. And suddenly that other nurse calls for Kinderman and he comes in and he finds that Dr. Temple is at his desk dead. But it looks self-inflicted because on his desk is a needle and a vial. So it looks like he did this to himself. So Kinderman goes to the Gemini killer who was now Brad Dorif again. We see him as Brad Dorif. Obviously again, he's still seeing him as Damien. Goes to him and the Gemini asks, did you get my message? I left it with Nurse Keating, which is the nurse that just got killed. He says, nice girl, good heart. Which again, this is taunting because we know that her organs were removed, including her heart. So the Gemini continues and he starts saying about how this body, this mind, there I was dead in the electric chair, and there was still so much killing to do. And I was in the void. And then along came the master, and he thought that my work should continue. But in this body in particular, talking about Damien Carus' body, which he's in, in this body in particular, let's call it revenge. And it refers to a certain matter of an exorcism where Carus expelled a certain party talking about the devil, talking about this master that he's talking about. Carus expelled a certain party who was not pleased. So the master devised the scheme as a way of getting back by creating a horror to the eyes of all those who seek faith by using a body of a saintly priest, basically to ruin everybody's faith, to see that Father Carus is doing these terrible things. Like what the fuck? How could this happen? And he goes on and says, But the main thing is the torment of your friend as he watches while I mutilated the innocent, his friends again and again, and he is inside with us and he will never get away and his pain won't end. And suddenly he stops speaking and he's like, Oh, gracious, I was raving. And he sits back down and he's like, Please forgive me. I'm mad. Where was I? And just like goes from one extreme to the other. So now we're learning how horrific this is. And the fact that Damien Carus, his soul, his consciousness is stuck within this body and is forced to watch him do these terrible things. It's literally get out before get out was get out. Like being like Damien Carus is in the sunken place, right? He's just forced to watch as this person, this evil person uses his body to commit these terrible acts. So the Gemini killer continues and he says, the master, he was kind to me. He brought me to father Carus at the time that he was passing on. And as he was about to slip out of his body, the master was slipping into me. And the medic said that Carus was dead and he was technically, he wanted out, like he wanted to be dead. He wanted out, but I was in. His brain was jelly because of the fall that he took, he was all sorts of fucked up because his brain was deprived of oxygen. So it took maximum effort to get me out of that coffin, because basically now his consciousness is in Carus, who is now being buried because they think that he's dead. So he emerges from the coffin and the Gemini laughs about this and smiles. And he's like, it's the smiles that keep us going, don't you think? Like he's such a sick fuck. Because he's talking about how he remembers like the brother, the priest that saw Damien Carus' body crawling out of the coffin and how horrified he was. And that was funny to him because he's a sick bitch. But he goes on and he says, after that, there was so much damage to Carus' brain that he was almost past resurrection. So it was an effort to regenerate his brain. And it took me 15 years, which this explains why he's been catatonic for 15 years. It took me 15 years and I'm just a traveling man. I have dreams of a rose and falling down a long flight of stairs. This comes back to that dream. So that dream that we had seen earlier, this is the person that was having it. So he has dreams of this boy that he killed, giving him this rose and then falling down a flight of stairs, which obviously the falling down a flight of stairs is a flashback to Carys. And Kinderman looks at this guy and he says, I don't believe that you're the Gemini killer. And the Gemini just says to him, you're issuing a clear invitation to the dance. And Kinderman is like, what does that mean? And the Gemini just laughs and says nothing. So the Gemini then says how Dr. Temple helped him. So that's why Dr. Temple off himself because of the fucking guilt. So he tells him that Dr. Temple helped him. He brought you to me, talking to Kinderman. He's like, he brought you here, which it did seem random. Why were they were going into this random ward? And also that explains why Dr. Temple was reciting what he was going to say because he was nervous and the Gemini was telling him what to say to Kinderman. He's the one that brought Kinderman here. And the Gemini says, I told him that if he failed, he would suffer in an unthinkable way. And he believed me, but he couldn't take the pressure because there were some other tasks that I said I had in mind for him. So again, this explains why he killed himself. And Kinderman now asks, did Temple get you out of this cell? Like who gets you out? And the Gemini just laughs and he says, friends, old friends, tell the press that I am the Gemini killer. This is your final warning. So Kinderman ignores this, but then suddenly he hears, Bill, help me. And Damien's voice again, and he turns back and it's Charis now, and Kinderman goes to him and calls his name. And then suddenly Brad Dorif is in its place again, and he screams, no. And he just says, Child's Play, Lieutenant, which I like to think that this was a reference to Child's Play because this movie came out in 1990. So this would have already, Child's Play would have already been a thing. It would have came out in 1988. So he says Child's Play, Lieutenant, which I do think is purposeful. And if not, it's a weird coincidence, but I love it either way. Because obviously I don't even think I mentioned, Brad Dorif is the voice of Chucky. Did I say that? I mean, I'm sure most everybody knows, but if anybody doesn't know, Brad Dorif is the iconic voice of Chucky. And that's why when he speaks, it like his Chucky voice is basically his real voice. So you can immediately tell that's Brad Dorif because he doesn't really do much to change his voice. So Kinderman leaves and he's replaying the Gemini saying, he's like one of his old friends over and over. And he's like one who moves. And then he looks at all those patients in the ward for the catatonic people and the mentally ill people. And again, like you can tell the wheels are turning. And he goes into this ward, and suddenly there is a closet that opens a little bit. And there's a woman in there looking at Kinderman through the crack. And then we get a full shot. The camera backs up. So we see Kinderman, we see all these like old people in wheelchairs around on the floor. And suddenly, we see an old woman crawling on the ceiling. And this old woman is Mrs. Clalia, and nobody fucking sees her. But we then cut to Kinderman, who's looking forward. He's not looking up, so he doesn't see this. But above him, on the wall, Mrs. Clalia stops, and she turns her head around, and she smiles at him. And she starts, he starts to walk out, and she crawls into another room out of the area, out of sight. That's also an incredible scare, I think, anything with people crawling on the fucking ceiling is automatically terrifying to me, and I think they do it so well. But Kinderman is going to walk out, and he notices that there is blood seeping out from another room. So he opens this door, and he sees that there is a woman naked and dead on the floor, like a young woman naked and dead on the floor. And then we cut to an older woman dressed in a nurse's outfit walking down the hallway. So we're understanding that the Gemini killer has now possessed one of these old people, and she killed the nurse, took the nurse's uniform, and is just going to walk straight out of the hospital. So we see a nurse enter a kid's room, and she goes towards this kid, and it's dark, but then suddenly Kinderman bursts in and turns the lights on, and it's just the normal nurse. It's that woman, the kind of bitch nurse. That's the only way I have to refer to her right now, because we don't have her name until right now. And again, she referred to herself as a bitch. I actually think she's fine. But Kinderman bursts in, and this causes the kid to get scared. The kid gets scared. The nurse holds the kid and yells at him, like, can't you, like, I can't wait for you to leave. Like, you're constantly, like, fucking things up around here pretty much. And then suddenly he looks down at the nurse's name tag, and we see that her name is Julie. And Kinderman has this realization because he thinks of his daughter, whose name is also Julie, and he literally says Julie. And he again replays, you are asking for a clear invitation to the dance. And he realizes what he meant. He's going after his family. The dance is that you are now involved. I'm going after you and yours. So Kinderman fucking freaks out, and we cut to Kinderman's house, and we see that his wife answers the phone, and she hangs up and she tells her mom, oh, that was Bill. There's a nurse coming over with a package. But we cut to the hospital, and we see that Bill Kinderman is trying to call his house, but he keeps getting a busy signal. So that wasn't just him that called his wife. That was some sorcery. That was some divine intervention, like on terms on behalf of Satan that called his wife. We then see that that nurse is in a taxi, so we know where she's heading. And Kinderman runs out and he gets in his cop car, and he speeds to his house, and the taxi is getting closer, and the cop car is blocked by a bunch of people, so he's struggling. But eventually we see the nurse ring the doorbell to the house. And in the hospital, we see that the nurse, Julie, has the Gemini killer hooked up to this brain scan thing, because he's once again passed out. So she's like measuring his brain activity, which again is heightened. And we see Kinderman get home, and he tells the cop that he's with to go around back, so he does, and he opens the door, and his daughter comes to the door, and so does his wife. And they're totally normal, and they're like, hey, what are you doing here? And he's confused as fuck. And Kinderman is like, oh, I guess I'm crazy. And he puts his gun away, because he came to the door, guns ablaze in, and his wife asks about the nurse. So then he realizes he's not crazy, because his wife is like, what is it with this nurse? And Kinderman turns and sees this nurse sitting in the kitchen, and he goes to the kitchen, and his wife says, oh, I've never seen a nurse like this. She came to the door, but then she fainted and woke up and asked when bedtime was. So Kinderman looks at this woman, and she just says, please help me. Is it bedtime? So she seems like she's one of the catatonic patients again. And Kinderman turns away, and we see this nurse reach into her bag, and she pulls out those big, intimidating ass, scary ass shears, the silver medical shears that we had seen earlier. And she pulls out those shears, and suddenly the gemini's voice speaks through her and says, catatonic are so easy to possess. And when Kinderman turns around, he sees that this woman is speaking in the gemini's voice, and he says, I wanted you to see this. And he takes the shears and opens them and puts them to Julie's head. But as the person goes to let go, the fucking Kinderman's wife's mother, who he had been talking shit about, grabs Julie from the top of the head like this and pulls her out of the way. And it is a great scene. I think this is a great sequence, because the way that she's pulled out of frame, it's great. So Julie does not get hurt, because again, her grandmother saves her ass. So now it turns into absolute chaos, because the other cop is in here. He tries to grab the nurse, but then she pushes him away. She has like this inhuman strength, and then she starts strangling kindermen, and she's growling, and she's doing this. But then suddenly she stops, and she starts screaming, and she screams, mourning, and she collapses in slow motion. And you're like, who the fuck, what is mourning? Like, what does that possibly mean? And we cut to the hospital, and we're on the isolation ward, and we see the door open, and that priest with the white hair, whose name is Father Mourning, steps onto the block, and he goes to the Gemini's room, and the Gemini looks at him. He's now awake, like the actual body in the cell, and that's why he screamed mourning, because the priest came in, and he pulled his body out of the old woman, out of the nurse, and put him back in his regular body. So he's now back in his cell, and he's like, you've again interrupted me. Have you come to save God's servant? And then he says, my son, Gemini, has more work to do. Come in, Father Mourning. So it's now Charis, and Charis looks like Regan from the first movie. He's got like these yellow eyes, he's got these scratches all over his face, and when he's breathing, you can see like not smoke, whatever they call it, coming out, because obviously that means the room is freezing cold. So the smoke is coming out of his mouth every time he breathes and he tells Father Mourning, this time you're going to lose. But Mourning is going to give it his all. So he goes in and he begins an exorcism, and he starts spraying holy water on the demon, and the demon cries and groans as this happens, and Mourning begins the exorcism rites, beginning with Savior-Servant. And as he's saying this, we see this line of fire develop in between him and Damien and the demon, and we see like snakes everywhere. There's a snake slithering on the Bible and all over the floor. But then we cut and we see that everything's normal. So the demon is just making it seem like all this stuff is happening, but it's actually not. But everything's normal and Mourning continues with this ritual, and suddenly wind starts blowing all around the room. And we zoom in on Damien's yellow eyes. And suddenly when we zoom in on his eyes, the Bible bursts open and pages rip out of it and fly everywhere. So now he has no Bible and Mourning starts levitating. He's like lifted up to the ceiling and he says, I command you and he's trying to speak. But then we see that his skin is starting to peel off. It's almost like he was glued to the ceiling and as his weight is coming down, he's like peeling off the wall. So like the skin peels off of his head and literally like reveals his fucking brain, exposes his brain as he screams. And now we see Kinderman. Kinderman shows up to the ward and he goes to the Gemini's door and he sees the Gemini killer sitting on the bed in a straight jacket and he sees this Bible on the ground and it's burned and all the pages are removed from it. And then he looks up and he sees blood dripping from the ceiling because there's skin attached to the ceiling that is dripping blood. And then he sees father mourning in the corner of the room, completely mutilated, somehow not dead, but all sorts of fucked up, probably would rather be dead, to be honest. And the Gemini killer looks at Kinderman and says, don't worry about Julie, we'll get her. So again, he's still taunting this guy. So now Kinderman pulls out his gun and he just says, pray for me, Damien. And he points the gun at Damien and says, you're free. But before he's able to pull the trigger, this unseen force pushes him back and the door closes. So now he's locked in here. And suddenly a woman's voice starts to say, did you think to save your friend, the priest? And Kinderman just says, my God, help me. And the Gemini says, have I helped your unbelief? Because Kinderman was not a religious person. And Kinderman says, yes, I believe. I believe in death. And he gives his whole speech. He's like, I believe in death and disease and justice and inhumanity and torture and anger and hate and murder and pain and cruelty and infidelity and slime and ugliness and corruption. And I believe in you, you son of a bitch, I believe in you. And I love George C. Scott. Like it's just like such an intense moment. And the moment he says that lightning starts striking in the room repeatedly to the point where it's causing holes in the floor and these multiple holes eventually open up and create one big hole. So the floor is now gone. And in this hole, we see the dead boy's body, that dead boy that was crucified. We see this dead boy's body be lifted up, crucified on a cross, and he's got that blackface Jesus head where his head should be. And this is so horrific because again, like he's just taunting Kinderman at this point with like the most horrific death I've ever fucking heard of. And eventually Kinderman, we turn away and then we turn back and that turns into Father Charis on the crucifix being lifted up. And we cut and we see that of course, none of this is really there. And Kinderman just yells out, why God? And the Gemini tells him, save your prayers. God is not here now, only darkness and your death. And Kinderman gets slammed into the ceiling. But then suddenly before the demon is able to finish him, Father Mourning comes up. He fucking somehow is still alive, mutilated, skin peeled off, still fucking fighting. He shows up and he grabs this crucifix and he looks at Damien and he's just like, fight Damien. I'm like, why am I crying? He's like, fight Damien. He's like trying to talk to Damien. He's like, Damien, you need to fight. And Damien starts shaking. You can tell he's hearing him. He's hearing the voice of his friend and he's fighting. And he's shaking. And the demon says, you cannot win. He died talking about Damien. And then suddenly Damien thrashes back and he screams out no. And when he does this, Kinderman drops from the ceiling. So the demon has released his hold on him. He drops from the ceiling. He falls to the ground, and he picks up his gun, and he looks at Damien, and Damien looks at him. And in Damien Carus' voice, he says, Bill, now shoot, kill me. It's Damien. And Bill does not hesitate, and he shoots Damien dead, and he kills him. Which it's so sad. It's so sad. I, you know, I have a hard time separating the fact that like characters aren't actual real people, because I'm like Damien Carus was such a good guy. Like in the first movie, he like tried so hard to help. And he ended up getting killed for it, because he literally told the demon to take him instead. So the demon went into his body, and then that's why he threw himself out the window to then sacrifice himself and get rid of this demon. And even that couldn't work. And for 15 years, he's been stuck in this body, in the fucking sunken place, having to watch, having to hear all the fucking, like all this, this scheming that's going on, all the people seeing his friends be killed. And then finally, he's able to come through and his one wish is just fucking kill me. Like, please just kill me, take me out. And Kinderman does not hesitate and has to kill his friend. How devastating. He's not fully dead yet. Kinderman goes up to Charis and Charis' voice just says, we won, now free me, Bill. And we see Bill put the gun to Charis' head and we cut to an image of outside of the moon as we hear a gunshot. So of course we understand that he officially put Charis out of his misery. Charis was finally able to just be at peace and let go. And later we cut to a monastery and we see that there's a bunch of priests standing around a cemetery and Kinderman is standing in the cemetery as well. And he's standing in front of what looks like a freshly dug grave. And eventually when he leaves, we see that the gravestone in front of this freshly dug grave is for Father Damien Charis with his name and his death date of 1975. And the movie ends. So they kept his original death date because 1975, that's 15 years ago when the first movie took place. Even though the movie came out in 1973, I guess maybe it was supposed to take place in 1975. Not really sure. Doesn't matter. But they kept his original death date because that really is when Charis died, like when he really died. So yeah, dude, that's The Exorcist III. I love the fact that they were able to get Jason Miller to come back and reprise this iconic role. That's what makes this movie so wonderful. But also what makes this movie so wonderful is Brad Doruff. And George C. Scott, don't get me wrong, he's an incredible actor. But Brad Doruff steals the show for me. He, I genuinely think this is like a big Oscar snub, like one of the many horror movie Oscar snubs, because he should have at the very least been nominated. I genuinely think this performance of his is incredible. I think Brad Doruff is an amazing actor. I mean, he has been nominated for an Oscar before. Outside of Chucky. I mean, like not that he does bad in Chucky, but I feel like he can't really put his acting on display in Chucky. But he is a wonderful actor. He is an incredible actor. And I think he's super underrated because he's kind of just looked at as like, Oh, Chucky. No, he can do so much more. Like he has such a range. And I think this is his best performance. I really do. I think he steals the show here. He's incredible without him. I don't think this movie would have been as successful or as memorable. So shout out to Brad Doruff. Love him. Apparently though, Brad Doruff and I think George C. Scott don't like this movie. Like Brad Doruff is quoted as saying it's a mediocre film because I guess there was an original version of the screenplay and of the movie that they liked a whole lot better. And then it became something else and they ended up not liking it, which is kind of crazy to me because again, I think this is fucking great. So I would have loved to see what the first version of this was. I couldn't really find anything. I'm not sure what it was supposed to be. Not sure. But again, I honestly think this movie is great as it is. So I'm happy with it. But I mean, I get not being happy with it. If you had a vision, you signed on to this movie thinking it was going to be one thing, and then it ended up being something totally different. I get that. But I still love it. The Gemini killer in this movie is based on the Zodiac killer. Of course, I feel like that's kind of obvious. But I didn't know that in one of the Zodiac's letters, because he used to also write the fucking police department and taunt them and write all these symbols and stupid shit, probably a man who thought he was a lot smarter than he actually was. But he in one of his letters made a comment about the original movie The Exorcist. He said he thought it was a fantastic comedy movie because he was a weird sick fuck, obviously. But he did reference The Exorcist in one of his letters. So that's interesting how he then inspired a character in one of the Exorcist movies. Also, this movie is very well known for being Jeffrey Dahmer's favorite movie. Like he would have his victims tied up, sit and watch it, which honestly adds another layer of creepiness to this movie, I think, because watching this, if you, when you watch this, think about how you're watching the same movie that Jeffrey Dahmer's victims watched in their last moments, it does make it really eerie, like super creepy, and that just makes it too real. So I actually try to forget about that part, to be honest. My final fun fact that I have about this movie is apparently in that dream sequence with all the angels, Samuel L. Jackson can be seen in there. He's an extra. He like, I don't know how they got him or why or how this happened, but I haven't seen him. I've never seen him. I could never spot him. But apparently Samuel L. Jackson is in the crowd during that dream sequence. So if you spot him, let me know. I don't think I spotted him. Now I'm thinking of it and I'm like, was he so blatantly upfront in the movie and I just didn't notice? I might have to go watch that dream sequence again. I don't know, but I never noticed him. I never noticed him in that sequence, but he's there apparently. So that was The Exorcist III. I'm so happy I finally got to talk about this movie because I do think it is a very strong sequel. Again, I think this should just be The Exorcist II. I think we should just act like The Exorcist II does not exist and consider this to be the only sequel because I don't know what the fuck that other one was. And there was a bunch more after this, I think. I've never watched another one until Exorcist Believer, but Mike Flanagan is gonna come in and save The Exorcist franchise. So that's all we need to know. And I think that is a perfect note to end on. So on Wednesday, we're wrapping up religious horror month with the rest of the Omen franchise, Omen 2, 3, and 4. And I will give you guys the line up for next month, which talking about Mike Flanagan, I think you guys might like the line up for next month. So we will talk about that on Wednesday. But if you like today's episode and you haven't yet given me a five star rating on Apple, Spotify, wherever you're listening to me, it will be super helpful, helps push me out into the algorithm and find other people to join our lovely little growing community we have here. So until next episode, you guys know where to find me. It's horror underscore Chronicles on TikTok and Instagram. I post every day so you can go keep up with me there. And until next time, watch more horror movies and stay spooky, my friends.