Hellfire Video Club: Third Time’s A Charm!
Hellfire Video Club are back with another trio of film recommendations to seek out. This month we have a trifecta of third-in-line sequels that are all worth wasting some of your precious time with..
Exorcist 3
William Peter Blatty, USA, 1990.
After the confused mess of Exorcist 2, you’d be forgiven for writing off the franchise … but writer-of-the-original WPB brings back the goods. Starring the always-great George C Scott as a jaded detective investigating some bizarro murders that have seemingly been committed by a serial killer who has been dead for 15 years. This over-looked gem is intriguing, creepy and low-key, with some effective scares. Solid.
HOWLING 3: THE MARSUPIALS
Philippe Mora, Australia, 1987.
Outside of ‘American Werewolf in London’ there aren’t many properly good werewolf movies. And this is not one of them. Set in the Australia, in this sequel the werewolfs have pouches now (like kangaroos) and are kind of portrayed as sympathetic characters (?). Does feature lots of very fun cheapo FX though — worth a watch if you have a group of mates and beer in the house, or you’ve sustained a massive head injury.
SCANNERS 3: THE TAKEOVER
Christian Duguay, Canada, 1991.
Pretty far removed from David Cronenberg’s original. This French Canadian production (Canuxploitation?) is about siblings with scanner abilities (those with telekinetic and telepathic powers) fighting it out for control of a large pharmaceutical company. There’s probably some prescient political analogies you could overlay on it if you use your own brain energies enough, but why bother? Sit back and enjoy the glorious over-acting and people gurning to signify using their “powers” (at one point the antagonist uses her evil powers to make someone’s finger explode?!)
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