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MrBarlow · #11 2nd May 2017, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

A couple of examples which come to mind are Legion being changed to The Exorcist II to pick up on the success of William Friedkin's film and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle changing to Harold & Kumar Get the Munchies because (I think) there aren't any White Castle restaurant outside of North America.

With Legion I think Blatty was trying to distant himself from Boorman's take on Exorcist 2 as it was laughable and it had gone through so many writers that the cast didn't know what the following day would bring for them.

Nosferatu@Cult Labs · #12 2nd May 2017, 02:41 PM

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With Legion I think Blatty was trying to distant himself from Boorman's take on Exorcist 2 as it was laughable and it had gone through so many writers that the cast didn't know what the following day would bring for them.

The problem with the title is that Legion is the real follow-up to The Exorcist, not Exorcist II: The Heretic, so the further change by Morgan Creek makes it seem as if Blatty's film is the second sequel and a follow-on from Boorman's travesty.

It is similar, but not the same, to Halloween III: Season of the Witch, which has absolutely nothing to do with Michael Myers and the previous two films in the Halloween series. As such, Halloween 4 had to be definitively subtitled The Return of Michael Myers in order to attract the cinemagoers who had been confused or felt let down by Halloween III and wanted to see Michael Myers butcher people instead of some strange plot to kill children with masks and bits of Stonehenge flown across the Atlantic!

bleakshaun · #13 2nd May 2017, 02:44 PM

wasn't carpenters intention to make halloween an anthology series

MrBarlow · #14 2nd May 2017, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

The problem with the title is that Legion is the real follow-up to The Exorcist, not Exorcist II: The Heretic, so the further change by Morgan Creek makes it seem as if Blatty's film is the second sequel and a follow-on from Boorman's travesty.

It is similar, but not the same, to Halloween III: Season of the Witch, which has absolutely nothing to do with Michael Myers and the previous two films in the Halloween series. As such, Halloween 4 had to be definitively subtitled The Return of Michael Myers in order to attract the cinemagoers who had been confused or felt let down by Halloween III and wanted to see Michael Myers butcher people instead of some strange plot to kill children with masks and bits of Stonehenge flown across the Atlantic!

I think someone was trying to cash in on the Halloween title after the success of the previous two movies. The title was a bit misleading season of the witch when there wasn't a witch. I can't remember much about it except Dan O Herily being in it.

MrBarlow · #15 2nd May 2017, 03:10 PM

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wasn't carpenters intention to make halloween an anthology series

After the death of Michael Myers in Halloween 2, John Carpenter was going to create more Halloween movies based on the holiday but with Halloween 3 flopping at the box office he decided to bring back Michael.

Demdike@Cult Labs · #16 2nd May 2017, 03:17 PM

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no problem. the title was always lord of tears but when it was released by 88 films the title was changed. it was kinda the same with Sawney: Flesh of Man was renamed in the USA as Lord of Darkness

I quite enjoyed Sawney: Flesh of Man. It was a blind buy and i really wasn't sure it would be any good, but it certainly fulfilled it's promise in my opinion.

bleakshaun · #17 2nd May 2017, 03:19 PM

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I quite enjoyed Sawney: Flesh of Man. It was a blind buy and i really wasn't sure it would be any good, but it certainly fulfilled it's promise in my opinion.

it's one of my personal favourites of 2013, also had Boabbie from Still Game