Dominion - Prequel To The Exorcist (DVD)

...That version is known as Dominion and has now been released for the public to admire. The only inevitability of this film, of course, is the comparison between this version and Exorcist The Beginning. Having watched the two films, it is really a rather bizarre experience given that they are essentially retellings of similar stories. Indeed, half the cast members from The Beginning are also in Dominion. It wasn't until I started to watch Dominion ...
...focus of the story in Dominion is rather different to The Beginning. Dominion is more psychological. It examines the loss of Merrin's faith and his journey back to self-discovery. The Beginning is much more about horror - a vague attempt to recreate the shocks and scares of the 1973 classic. You can see exactly why Dominion was rejected by the studio, purely on the grounds of commercial appeal. The Exorcist is revealed as one of the horror classics ...

LostWitness 19.10.2005 · Read full review
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Dominion is the prequel film to the exorcist,it tells a important part of the exorcist story about how father Merrin (the priest who helps in the exorcism) comes to be experienced at exorcisms, it tellsof him as a young man who is a missionary in Africa after becoming disolusioned in the war, interested in archaeology he gets involved in a dig site where there is a buried temple hes confused as the temple appears to have been buried straight after ...
...a evil at work. Dominion is definatley not as good as the exorcist, its not dark and scary but it does fill in an important part of the story, after I watched this film I watched exorcist again and it made more sense to me quite a few times father Merrins name is mentioned before he even appears and I loved this film for that reason , however this film does have some random acts of violent which seem to happen from nowhere and not fit well with ...

daxus100 09.09.2008 · Read full review
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