British distributors Second Sight Films have detailed their upcoming Blu-ray release of William Peter Blatty's film
The Ninth Configuration (1980), starring Stacy Keach, Jason Miller, Scott Wilson, George DiCenzo, Ed and Flanders. The release will be available for purchase on April 25.
Synopsis: Appointed by the Pentagon to work at a remote military psychiatric hospital known as 'Centre Eighteen', unorthodox psychiatrist Colonel Hudson Kane (Stacy Keach) is faced with a number of patients whose mental breakdowns are seemingly unrelated to their army experiences. Chief among them is astronaut Captain Cutshaw (Scott Wilson), who believes that God is a fraud. Each of Kane's charges are tormented by inner demons, feeling their existence to be without purpose, but he begins to make progress with them all. However, as Kane's patients' condition improves his own mental state begins to deteriorate, the line between sanity and madness becoming blurred in the process. Directed and scripted by William Peter 'Exorcist' Blatty from his own novel.
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by Writer / Director William Peter Blatty
- 'Killer Kane' featurette - brand new interviews with writer / director / producer William Peter Blatty,
actors Stacy Keach, Tom Atkins and Stephen Powers, composer Barry De Vorzon, production
designer William Malley and art director J. Dennis Washington.
- Mark Kermode introduction
- Deleted Scenes and Outtakes