A former marine an ace US Army psychiatrist, (Stacy Keach) arrives at work in an isolated military nuthouse with some doctors who are just as insane as the patients . It is a mental asylum housed in a remote castle to run it . There he firstly meets a peculiar doctor (Ed Flanders) , while attempting to rehabilitate the patients by letting them act out their craziest fantasies and desires . Meantime Kane still struggling with his inner demons, as he is particularly intrigued by the psychotic former astronaut, Captain Cutshaw (Scott Wilson) and other outlandish patients , all of them he tries to rehabilitate them by allowing them to live out their own nutty activities . The cast is populated by a gallery of service fruitcakes from a cowardly astronaut , winners to Vietnam malingerers , insane soldiers playing Shakespeare , Congressional Medal winners , among others .The Killer Cane Cure...It's unorthodox, unauthorized - but always effective! Madness is a soldier's final retreat. It will take you to the edge of your mind! How Do You Fight A War Called Madness?.Don't blink for a second, because nothing is what it seems.
Based on Blatty's novel "Twinkle Twinkle Killer Kane" (also the movie's alternate title) , this is a surreal and weird tale of a a mock rebellion of high-rank military men held in a secret base for the mentally ill , it is a psychiatric institution for military personnel who fought in the Vietnam War . It's easy to see why Exorcist author Blatty's debut effort as a director stayed on the shelf for a year. It is a thought-provoking and brooding film in which metaphysical enquiries trigger a feverish recurring nightmare , including theological debates over the existence of God and evil . This unfathomable yarn has the same tortured Christian iconography as Blatty's bestseller , but is altogether more pretentious on the level of reflection about the problem of Evil and the question is God Dead or if we are living in sin . It results to be a mix of Mike Nichols' Catch 22 with Samuel Fuller's Shock Corridor and Donald Siegel' Invasion of body snatchers , adding an episode from The twilight Zone . Keach is good as the commander unorthodox psychiatrist, Colonel Kane, attempting to figure out whether the inmates feign insanity or not . Being very well cast with plenty of familiar faces , such as : Ed Flanders , Scott Wilson, Neville Brand , George DiCenzo, Moses Gunn, Robert Loggia, Joe Spinell , Alejandro Rey, Tom Atkins, Steve Sandor , Richard Lynch and William Peter Blatty even had a cameo role in the film .
Available in many different lengths , the118 min version is considered the best . Packing a colorful cinematography by Gerry Fisher as well as atmospheric musical score by Barry De Vorzon. The motion picture was well but slowly directed by William Peter Blatty and he deems to be the true follow-up to Exorcist (1973) as opposed to a mere sequel . Blatty was a writer and actor, known for The Exorcist (1973), The Exorcist III (1990) and this The ninth configuration (1980). And also wrote other scripts , such as : The Great Bank Robbery, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, A Shot in the Dark, John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! , Gunn , Darling Lily, and The Man from the Diners' Club . Rating : 6/10. Acceptable but confusing and strange.
Based on Blatty's novel "Twinkle Twinkle Killer Kane" (also the movie's alternate title) , this is a surreal and weird tale of a a mock rebellion of high-rank military men held in a secret base for the mentally ill , it is a psychiatric institution for military personnel who fought in the Vietnam War . It's easy to see why Exorcist author Blatty's debut effort as a director stayed on the shelf for a year. It is a thought-provoking and brooding film in which metaphysical enquiries trigger a feverish recurring nightmare , including theological debates over the existence of God and evil . This unfathomable yarn has the same tortured Christian iconography as Blatty's bestseller , but is altogether more pretentious on the level of reflection about the problem of Evil and the question is God Dead or if we are living in sin . It results to be a mix of Mike Nichols' Catch 22 with Samuel Fuller's Shock Corridor and Donald Siegel' Invasion of body snatchers , adding an episode from The twilight Zone . Keach is good as the commander unorthodox psychiatrist, Colonel Kane, attempting to figure out whether the inmates feign insanity or not . Being very well cast with plenty of familiar faces , such as : Ed Flanders , Scott Wilson, Neville Brand , George DiCenzo, Moses Gunn, Robert Loggia, Joe Spinell , Alejandro Rey, Tom Atkins, Steve Sandor , Richard Lynch and William Peter Blatty even had a cameo role in the film .
Available in many different lengths , the118 min version is considered the best . Packing a colorful cinematography by Gerry Fisher as well as atmospheric musical score by Barry De Vorzon. The motion picture was well but slowly directed by William Peter Blatty and he deems to be the true follow-up to Exorcist (1973) as opposed to a mere sequel . Blatty was a writer and actor, known for The Exorcist (1973), The Exorcist III (1990) and this The ninth configuration (1980). And also wrote other scripts , such as : The Great Bank Robbery, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, A Shot in the Dark, John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! , Gunn , Darling Lily, and The Man from the Diners' Club . Rating : 6/10. Acceptable but confusing and strange.