British label Screenbound Pictures has released a trailer for the upcoming Blu-ray release of director John Huston's Wise Blood (1979), starring Brad Dourif, John Huston, Harry Dean Stanton, Ned Beatty, and Dan Shor. The release will be available for purchase on September 12.
Synopsis: Legendary film director John Huston creates one of his most cerebral films that will stay with the viewer for a long time. Set in the American Deep South during the post-war era, Wise Blood stars Brad Dourif as Hazel Motes, an unhinged and aimless war-veteran, who decides to become a Bible-thumping preacher for a quasi-religious cult called The Church Without Christ. Linking up with a fraudulent hustler from hellfire-and-brimstone preaching circuit -- who pretends to be blind for the assembled believers -- Motes is put under pressure by the fraudster to blind himself for real so that he can truly 'see the light'. A dark satire on religious movements that, beautifully acted by Dourif, Huston and William Hickey.