When one reads this horror novel, particularly if it is an early edition with the yellow book jacket and seventies/early-eighties fabulous photo of Blatty on the back cover, one might at first feel like it is a softening of the first installment’s tone. The killer is loosely based on the real-life Zodiac Killer, and the demon a return of the cruel spirit of the original Exorcist novel, this time in the body of a priest instead of a young girl. The novel reads like a murder mystery mixed with possession novel, with a slight air of 80’s serial killer novel a-la The Silence of the Lambs. In this book, protagonist Lieutenant Kinderman investigates a series of murders made strange by varying sets of fingerprints all seeming to imitate the methods of a deceased serial killer. Less well known is the fact that the film bases itself on Blatty’s novel Legion, the literary sequel to his hit novel. In a strange twist, The Exorcist III came along as a third installment that is in fact the true sequel to the first movie and overall not a bad horror flick for its time. With the movie sequel The Heretic, the producers made a travesty of the series begun by the first well-written work and nearly relegated it to the wrong-end of the B-Movie world’s hydra of a genre. Publisher: Starscape ISBN: 9780765327130 Weight: 304 g Dimensions: 209 x 142 x 23 mm You may also be interested in.With The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty made himself well-known. But more than this, it is an extraordinary journey into the uncharted depths of the human mind and the most agonizing questions of the human condition.The answers are revealed in a climax so stunning that it could only have been written by the author of "The Exorcist" William Peter Blatty."
Why does each victim suffer the same dreadful mutilations? Why are two of the victims priests? Is there a connection between "these" crimes and another series of murders that took place twelve years ago and supposedly ended with the death of the killer?"Legion" is a novel of breathtaking energy and suspense. Is the murderer the elderly woman who witnessed the crime? A neurologist who can no longer bear the pain life inflicts on its victims? A psychiatrist with a macabre sense of humor and a guilty secret? A mysterious mental patient, locked in silent isolation?Lieutenant Kinderman follows a bewildering trail that links all these people, confronting a new enigma at every turn even as more murders surface. Just in time for the 40th anniversary of The Exorcist - Legion, a classic tale of horror, is back in print!A young boy is found horribly murdered in a mock crucifixion.
0 kommentar(er)
