'The Exorcist III's hastily-reshot ending is incredibly out of place within the film it inhabits in countless ways.
While The Exorcist has endured as a horror masterpiece, this 1973 William Friedkin directorial effort has spawned some truly chaotic and cursed sequels. Exorcist II: The Heretic is widely regarded as one of the worst movies of all time, while the production of the fourth entry, The Exorcist: The Beginning, was plagued with constant problems and ended up spawning two different drastically different cuts long before “The Snyder Cut” entered the internet discourse lexicon.
Though Blatty performed to studio’s wishes, he was never satisfied with how the sequence turned out. His feelings are already incredibly understandable before one considers how this hastily reshot ending contrasts with the original conclusion Blatty filmed. Initially, The Exorcist III would’ve ended with Kinderman, after narrowly saving his family from a murderous nurse, simply walking in and shooting the possessed Karras.
These are all such thoughtful qualities of The Exorcist III that, unfortunately, get thrown out the window for the climax. Suddenly, we’re seeing people pinned to the ceiling and having their flesh peeled off by the chants of Satanic forces. Worse, the film even undercuts earlier acts of violence that were so effectively kept off-screen. One of the first murders in the film is of a young Black boy named Thomas Kintry.
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