One Of The Most Controversial Horror Sequels Ever Has One Of The Best Trailers Of All Time

It is generally accepted that the summer movie season as we know it today Started 50 years ago by publishing Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws”. The studios were already obsessed with blockbusters, such as “Love Story” and “godfather”, due to escaping success and the spread of multiplexes (which meant that screen numbers exploded all over the world). But when the “jaws” blew past “Gone with the Wind” to become the highest ever movie, it was a game.

This Gold Rush mentality made the studios prioritize sequels to their previous hits, even though this approach called critical cheap. “The godfather part II” was one thing, and certainly “French connection II” made it reasonable because Charnier got off at the end of the first one, but the “love story” was obscene (called “Oliver’s story” and is one of the worst of all time). So, when the studio was nourished the sequel, they knew that many influential critics would see the said offer extremely skeptically.

One block It seemed to be a rather emphasizing one and made by William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”. Based on William Peter Blatty’s bestselle novel, the story of the young Regan Macneil (Linda Blair) about the possession of Demoni Pazuzu, was a painful experience that ended up that Jason Miller’s father Karras took his own body to his own body.

You can’t stop the movie purely than it, but when “Exorcist” ended as the highest film in Warner Bros’s history until then, the studio demanded follow -up. What was originally meant to be a small budget crushing and-grab (with unused material from the original) became a big budget art film from John Boorman, a risk-taking instructor. Although I happen to find “Exorcist II: heresy” fascinating strange, Boorman had no interest in serving a viscerally horrible trial à la friedkin. His film seems to be designed from STEM to Stern to inspire fans of the original movie. Warner Bros. He knew that this film had no chance to be in contact with the mainstream audience, but it was well aware that the ghostly and awakening images were imprisoned by BOORM (working with Ace filmmaker William A. Fraker). “Exorcist II: Harachopic” could have been a franchise killer, but WB could at least sell hell to a world-class trailer.

In any case, the film’s trailers may be a three-minute pop song perfectly when transported perfectly. Whether the director cuts those or professionals who have controlled the art of sales, they can connect the movie to the essence of the movie and offer a promise of just a movie theater bliss. Sometimes they promise more than the filmmaker can deliver: Renny Harlin’s “Cliffhanger” is a solid B activity, But its trailerMozart’s “Requiem” (and did not have a dialogue) in the “Dies Irae” movement, made the film a symphony of the songs in practice as a symphony. At the other end of the spectrum Jean-Luc Godard’s trailer for “contempt” He used Georges Delerue’s lush tragic point to make the film look romantic epic for a while (when it is still a very Godard movie, but so spectacularly).

Some movies are so miserable that you can’t cover those fluctuations, and if the WB had taken a conventional approach to marketing “Exorcist II: The HERETIC”, the film may have been flop during its opening weekend. But somebody watched Boorman’s terrifying horror movie from the confusing stew and knew they could connect a work of art that stands alone after the film was written as one of the worst sequels of all time (which I think is far too harsh, but so “exorcist Itic” is still viewed 48 years later).

The secret sauce of Boorman’s film is Maestro Ennio Morricone. An important Italian composer was fond of the movie to the movies, but something “exorcist II: The Heatic” turned him over. The songs and cheaters he used in the movies, such as “good, bad and ugly” and “Navajo Joe” sound as if they were born from the center of hell. Do these sounds always synchronize with what you see on the screen? Not exactly. Borman conjures up some enchanting images (and gets a more horrifying mileage with flocks of John Like no film history director), but Morricone often works overtime to get the movie hanging parts to sing. He had a desire to do this. For example, it is reasonable that Gregory Nava “Time Fate” is a forgotten movie, while Morricone’s partition is an attachment in every movie music fan collection (and used to sell a very different flop Lawrence Kasdan “Wyatt Earp”).

But Morricone’s music was never placed more effectively on a trailer than “Exorcist II: The Heatic” theater.

“Exorcist II: The HERETIC” was released on June 17, 1977, less than a month later George Lucas “Star Wars: Episode IV – New Toivo” changed the films forever. Before the filmmakers got whispering for that galaxy far, it seemed that this summer would be a follow -up to the “Bad News Beers Breaking Training” in the Follow -up Fight of the Royale Boorman film “and, not a joke,” Benj’s love. ” And indeed, Peter Yates “Jaws” writer Peter Benchley’s “The Deep” adaptation was sold to Spielberg’s movie with its cheerful poster.

Given that Friedkin’s film was widely regarded as the most frightening film of all time, the sequel to Borman’s “The Exorcist” was a huge competitive advantage in the market. WB knew that this advantage was going on when mainstream filmmakers saw the film, so it cut a trailer that wedged the most striking pictures of the movie with Morricone’s Ultra -Groovy “Pazuzu” theme. In doing so, it sold what seemed to be a funky, Freaky-Deaky studio horror movie. It looks like a funkadelic album lid wakes up to life.

Honestly, the other Borma and WB saw this trailer, they should have hit the brakes and change the movie to make the studio marketing department sales. It is basically a movie’s highlight, but if Borman saw how Trippine his film could be, if he visually harness his loop into Morricone’s music, he might have been able to formulate “exorcist II: HERTIC” cult classic instead of the curiosity of culture. At least we have this trailer. And we can run our speakers and watch it over and over again on YouTube. TyomaPazuzu. (And buy Arrow video blu-ray To hear /movie BJ and Harmony Colangelo throw the movie into defense through Video!)