Sorcerer: Friedkin's Cursed Masterpiece About Four Damned Men

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000

There is a film about four men driving two rotting lorries loaded with unstable dynamite across a Latin American jungle, and for roughly two decades it was easier to describe than to see. Sorcerer opened in June 1977, cost somewhere north of twenty million dollars, and died so completely at the box office that William Friedkin — the man who had just made The French Connection and The Exorcist back to back — spent years afterwards being asked what went wrong. The answer was partly a title that promised sorcery and delivered sweat, and partly a small science-fiction picture that had opened a few weeks earlier and eaten the culture whole. The film itself is one of the great suspense machines American cinema ever built.

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Sorcerer: Friedkin's Cursed Masterpiece About Four Damned Men