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The Exorcist III (1990)
★ 6.3 · 849 ratings on TMDB
Do you dare walk these steps again?
On the fifteenth anniversary of the exorcism that claimed Father Damien Karras' life, Police Lieutenant Kinderman's world is once again shattered when a boy is found decapitated and savagely crucified.
DirectorWilliam Peter Blatty
The emergence reading
In The Exorcist III, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “demon‑possessed hospital”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing possession, faith, violence.
↷ monsters and creaturesUSpossessionfaithviolence
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also hides consciousness here
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