Dominion: Prequel To The Exorcist

In the annals of movies with troubled production histories, Paul Schrader's prequel to THE EXORCIST (1973) stands tall. Schrader, who inherited the project from ailing director John Frankenheimer, minus Frankenheimer's Father Lankester Merrin (Liam Neeson, who left with Frankenheimer), was later fired and his nearly completed film was shelved as insufficiently scary. A revised version was reshot by Renny Harlin as EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING (2004) with a mix of original and new cast members, and Schrader's version languished until a screening at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film paved the way for limited U.S. theatrical release. The verdict: More thoug...