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10 August 2005 (Belgium)
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Years before Father Lancaster Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil's soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa. Merrin's initial battle with Pazuzu leads to the rediscovery of his faith. full summary | add synopsis
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Solid. Unexpected, effective film.
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Stellan Skarsgård | ... | Father Lankester Merrin | |
| Gabriel Mann | ... | Father Francis | |
| Clara Bellar | ... | Rachel Lesno | |
| Billy Crawford | ... | Cheche | |
| Ralph Brown | ... | Sergeant Major | |
| Israel Aduramo | ... | Jomo | |
| Andrew French | ... | Chuma | |
| Antonie Kamerling | ... | Kessel | |
| Julian Wadham | ... | Major Granville | |
| Eddie Osei | ... | Emekwi | |
| Ilario Bisi-Pedro | ... | Sebituana | |
| Niall Refoy | ... | Corporal (Thief) | |
| Lorenzo Camporese | ... | Private (Thief) | |
| Burt Caesar | ... | Dr. Lamu | |
| Marcello Santoni | ... | Dutch Farmer |
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Also Known As:
Exorcist: The Original Prequel (USA) (pre-release title)
Paul Schrader's Exorcist: The Beginning (USA) (pre-release title)
Paul Schrader's Exorcist: The Original Prequel (USA) (complete title)
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Paul Schrader's Exorcist: The Beginning (USA) (pre-release title)
Paul Schrader's Exorcist: The Original Prequel (USA) (complete title)
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Rated R for strong violence and disturbing images.
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117 min
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Singapore:NC-16 |
UK:15 |
Ireland:18 |
Germany:16 |
USA:R (certificate #41536) |
Spain:18 |
Netherlands:16 |
USA:R
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Paul Schrader was originally hired as director of Exorcist: The Beginning (2004), but Morgan Creek ultimately rejected his "psychological thriller" approach, saying it was "commercially unmarketable". The decision was made to extensively rewrite and re-shoot the script, re-cast several roles, add new characters and give the director's chair to Renny Harlin. Schrader's version was originally supposed to be released direct to video, as a bonus feature on the DVD release of Harlin's version. However, in the wake of Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)'s box office failure, Morgan Creek abandoned this idea, allowing Schrader to present his version at several film festivals, as well as giving it a small scale theatrical release in several countries under a new title (Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist). Schrader's version also received support from William Peter Blatty, who said to The Houston Chronicle that Schrader's version is "a handsome, classy, elegant piece of work."
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Factual errors: In the scene where the flag is being taken down and folded, "Taps" plays in the background. "Taps" is an American military song, and is not played by the British Army. "Last Post" would have been the appropriate music.
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Edited from Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)
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Back to Me
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Why is this called "Prequel to the Exorcist"? I thought "Exorcist: The beginning" was.more
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Exorcist: The Beginning was an ineffective film that contains everything I hate about current genre films: impatient editing and storytelling, lines of dialogue that stop just when some characters are about to actually say something, bombardment of CGI visuals and some seriously unnecessary gore effects that are akin to the movie-makers hitting the audience over the head with a Warner Brothers iron anvil normally reserved for their cartoon characters. What a nice surprise it was to finally see DOMINION on it's (unfortunate) limited run. Here is a movie that doesn't assume the audience is too stupid to actually sit down and take a story in without excessive music video stimuli. Here is a movie who's build-up is effective and will have many working hard to shake the uneasy feeling that, indeed, evil IS everywhere. There were some story elements from "The Beginning" that made no sense whatsoever. In this film - all is presented clearly, thoughtfully and much more unsettling (but it really hits you when the film comes to its climax). There is a scene in "The Beginning" where some crazed hyenas savage a character to shreds. Their appearance was curious and not presented as necessarily crucial to the film other than for one scene. In this film, just one look from them and you know right away they add to the whole atmosphere of the film. They are an ever present danger not only to the surrounding location but the always present evil watching humanity just out of sight and ready to attack when one is most vulnerable and alone. Another sequence featuring Father Merrin and Nazi soldiers is given a very clever, diabolic twist and adds MUCH to the notion of how the Devil deceives and tricks. In the other film, it's a scene where you know only that "this is what torments Father Merrin" - and that's it. Which is how this movie plays against Renny Harlin's "The Beginning" - an easy sell to the masses (it STILL didn't work). "Dominion" is a crafted piece where one single shot holds more story information than a 30 second sequence rife with vulgar, over-the-top digital effects. See this version - especially if believe that The Exocist story is actually more effective today than it EVER was.