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The Ninth Configuration has been released on Blu-ray via Scream Factory. Limited to 1,500, it’s available for $26.98 exclusively from Shout Factory. The 1980 psychological horror-drama is also known as Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane.
The Exorcist writer William Peter Blatty makes his directorial debut from his own script, based on his 1978 novel. Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders, Neville Brand, George DiCenzo, Moses Gunn, Robert Loggia, Joe Spinell, Alejandro Rey, and Tom Atkins star.
The Ninth Configuration has been newly scanned in 2K from the original camera negative. Special features are listed below.
Special features:
- Audio commentary by writer-director William Peter Blatty
- Interview with writer-director William Peter Blatty
- Interview with actor Stacy Keach
- Interview with actor Stephen Powers
- Interview with production designer William Malley and art director J. Dennis Washington
- Interview with composer Barry De Vorzon
- The Party Behind the Curtain – Interviews with writer-director William Peter Blatty and actors Tom Atkins, Jason Miller, and Richard Lynch
- Featurette with film critic Mark Kermode
- Deleted scenes and outtakes
In the final days of the Vietnam War, a remote castle in the Pacific Northwest serves as a mental hospital for troubled soldiers scarred by their experiences. Isolated and all-but-forgotten, the inmates are running the asylum … until Colonel Kane (Stacy Keach) arrives to take over their treatment. Taking a special interest in one of his new patients – former astronaut Billy Cutshaw (Scott Wilson) who inexplicably aborted his mission to the Moon during its final countdown – Kane seeks answers to the mysteries of the breakdown. But as his time in the castle goes on, the riddles in Kane’s own mind reveal themselves in shocking and violent ways.
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“Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men’s eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the shriek of what followed, in fact, was forgotten and perhaps not connected to the horror at all.”
