Author: William Peter Blatty
- Fiction
- Planeta Publishing Corporation
- ISBN: 9786070729454
Synopsis
Un misterioso suceso preocupa al Pentágono: en una mansión gótica escondida en un bosque se encuentran encerrados veintisiete oficiales, antiguos componentes del Cuerpo de Marines, que combatieron en la guerra de Vietnam. Todos ellos, sorprendentemente, han comenzado a presentar síntomas de trastorno mental. Para lidiar con esta situación, el gobierno enviará al coronel Kane, un brillante psiquiatra de profundas convicciones religiosas que tendrá que descubrir la raíz de las extrañas obsesiones que perturban a estos hombres. Pero ¿están realmente trastornados o fingen su locura por algún oscuro motivo? ¿Se trata de un siniestro e insospechado plan? El coronel no solo deberá enfrentarse a la difícil tarea de resolver este misterio sino al cuestionamiento de sus propias creencias y a los fantasmas de su pasado.
William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist, proved a workmanlike producer/director for 1979'sThe Ninth Configuration. Army psychiatrist Col. Kane (Stacy Keach) (teetering on the sanity brink himself) tries to minister to the patients in a military mental hospital. The fact that the hospital is located in a brooding old castle is hardly conducive to speedy recoveries. Nor does the mid-film barroom brawl indicate that Kane's approach to mental health is all that workable. Blatty adapted the screenplay for The Ninth Configuration from his own novel Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane (which also served as the film's title during one of its many releases). It is hard to tell if what you're going to see is the "director's cut," since there are several versions of this film, running anywhere from 99 to 140 minutes.
