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The Exorcist: the Beginning (2004)
Starring: Stellan Skarsgård, Izabella Scorupco Director: Renny Harlin Rating: R
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Prequel. Exorcist: The Beginning traces the story of Father Merrin back to his first encounter with the Devil during his missionary work in Africa.
This film will tell the tale of Father Merrin's (Stellan Skarsgard) journey as a young missionary priest to post-WWII Africa, which led to his first encounter with demonic forces.
Father Lankester Merrin (Stellan Skarsgård) thinks that he has glimpsed the face of Evil. In the years following World War II, Merrin is relentlessly haunted by memories of the unspeakable brutality perpetrated against the innocent people of his parish during the War. In the wake of all the horror he has seen, both his faith in his fellow man and his faith in the Almighty have deserted him, and he can no longer honestly call himself a man of God. Merrin has traveled far from his native Holland in a desperate attempt to try to forget and escape all the evil that he had witnessed there.
In Egypt, he is approached by a collector of rare antiquities and asked to participate in a British archeological excavation in the remote Turkana region of Kenya. They have unearthed something extraordinary and unusual...a Christian Byzantine church dating from the 5th century, long before Christianity arrived in East Africa, and in inexplicably perfect condition--like it had been buried immediately after it was completed. The collector wants Merrin, an Oxford-educated archeologist, to find an ancient relic hidden within the church before the British do. Interested, Merrin agrees to take the job. But beneath the church, something much older and malevolent sleeps, waiting to be awoken.
When the archeologists start excavating, strange things begin occuring, and the local Turkana tribesmen who were hired to work refuse to enter the site. Things only get worse and worse, ultimately resulting in madness and death. Merrin watches helplessly as the atrocities of war are repeated against another innocent village--atrocities he had hoped and prayed never to see again. The blood of innocents flows freely on the East African plain, but the horror has only just begun. In the place where Evil was born, Merrin will finally see its true face. |
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Starring:
Stellan Skarsgård | Izabella Scorupco | James D'Arcy | Remy Sweeney | Julian Wadham | Andrew French | Ralph Brown | Ben Cross | ...more
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Directed By:
Renny Harlin
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Genre:
Horror
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DVD Release Date:
October 1, 2008
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Format: Region 1
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Rating:
R
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Year:
2004
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Regional Coding:
R1:
Will only play on North American Region 1 or multi-region DVD players.
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Number of Discs:
1
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Subtitles:
English, French, Spanish
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Screen Ratio:
Anamorphic (16:9), Full Screen Edition - 1.33:1, Widescreen Edition - 2.35:1
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English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
English (DTS)
French (Dolby Digital 5.1) | |
Running Time:
114 minutes
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Studio:
Warner Brothers
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Catalogue Number:
DVE024674
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UPC/Barcode Number:
085392467426
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Closed-Captioned: Yes
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Color: Yes
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- Scene Access
- Commentary by director Renny Harlin
- Behind-the-scenes featurette
- Theatrical trailer
- Interactive Menus
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