Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist

• Stellan Skarsgård: Father Lankester Merrin
• Gabriel Mann: Father Francis
• Billy Crawford: Cheche
• Ralph Brown: Sergeant Major
• Clara Bellar: Rachel Lesno

Dominion: . Exorcist - The Beginning of evil is an American horror movie from 2005 directed by Paul Schrader. The film is the fourth installment of The Exorcist (1973 ), but created as a prequel, so temporally located before the first part.

Action

The young Father Lankester Merrin, who has turned away from the Church and the faith, in the late 1940s involved in the excavation of a Byzantine church in British East Africa. The following events lead to the first encounter with the demon Pazuzu Merrin.

Criticism

" Schrader focused on the conflicts of conscience of Catholic priests, associated also with how and whether evil is to accept; an entirely different reading of the substance, which can be compared by DVD with the theatrical version of the official prequels. "

Background

Director Paul Schrader took over the project (working title Exorcist: Dominion ) by John Frankenheimer, who had dropped out due to illness. The delivered version of Schrader displeased the executives at Morgan Creek Productions, so that almost the entire film, with a new script ( Alexi Hawley ) and a new director ( Renny Harlin ), but almost identical cast, was again turned new. Because Harlin revised version under the title Exorcist: The Beginning fell by critics and audiences, presented the production studio Schrader a limited budget to complete its original version. This ran in 2005 as Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist at festivals and small number of copies in the cinemas.

William Peter Blatty, author of both the novel and the screenplay for The Exorcist as well as director and writer of The Exorcist III, called Schrader's film " handsome, stylish and elegant."