The Ninth Configuration is an Americann-made film, released in 1980. It is also known as: Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane. It is directed by William Peter Blatty of Exorcist fame.
The film opens with a majestic an Apollo rocket awaiting launch as a Jupiter-sized moon rises behind it. What follows is weird, bizarre, absurd film about a group of shell-shocked military fallouts sent to a remote eastern-European-looking castle that has most recently become something of an insane asylum.
Stacy Keach, most recently of Titus and American History X fame, portrays incoming psychologist Vincent Kane. His interactions with the patients and other military personnel are irrational to the point of profundity.
The second half of the film is despairingly the lesser of the movie. A recently released DVD includes a number of alternate endings and deleted scenes that might have been.
Blatty once referred to The Ninth Configuration as the true sequel to The Exorcist. Watch it and you might understand why. Running Time: 118 minutes.
