The Ninth Configuration (1980) Overview

1. The Ninth Configuration | Rotten Tomatoes

  • Col. Vincent Kane (Stacy Keach) is a military psychiatrist who takes charge of an army mental hospital situated in a secluded castle.

  • Col. Vincent Kane (Stacy Keach) is a military psychiatrist who takes charge of an army mental hospital situated in a secluded castle. Among Kane's many eccentric patients is Capt. Billy Cutshaw (Scott Wilson), a troubled astronaut in the midst of an existential crisis. Although Kane's own grasp on sanity is questionable, he manages to engage Cutshaw in a series of thoughtful conversations about science and faith that deeply affect the lives of both men.

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2. Review: The Ninth Configuration (1980) - 3 Brothers Film

  • Mar 30, 2018 · The Ninth Configuration is at times a psychological drama, a comic farce, and a meditation on religion and suffering; it is full of eccentric ...

  • Anders discovers and digs into William Peter Blatty's exploration of faith, despair, and madness. 

Review: The Ninth Configuration (1980) - 3 Brothers Film

3. THE NINTH CONFIGURATION Review - If You Want the Gravy…

  • May 27, 2020 · The Ninth Configuration is a film marked by uncertainty, confusion, and fragmentation, not just in its treatment of mental illness and its characters' grasps ...

  • The Ninth Configuration is a film marked by uncertainty, confusion, and fragmentation, not just in its treatment of mental illness and its characters’ grasps on reality, but in the multiple version…

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4. The Ninth Configuration (1980) Review - Christopher Fried

  • This is a drama, but tinged with aspects of action, horror, and comedy, particularly farce. Likely due to its hodgepodge nature, one drops it into the horror ...

  • At the beginning of the film, we’re dropped into the calm before the storm. Folk music lingers over the image of Billy Cutshaw (Scott Wilson) contemplating by the window of the strangely out of place Biltmore castle that’s being used by the U.S. government to study the phenomena of mental illness among soldiers during the climax of the Vietnam War. Interesting thing is that Cutshaw is not a veteran suffering from combat fatigue, but he’s a former astronaut that suffered a bout of psychosis just before he was set to launch off for the moon. The first mystery is why this national hero suddenly became so frightened.

5. Diary of a Cineater: 'The Ninth Configuration' (1980)

Diary of a Cineater: 'The Ninth Configuration' (1980)

6. The Ninth Configuration (1980) Revisited - Horror Movie Review

  • Jun 13, 2023 · Fuelled by Blatty's Catholicism, The Ninth Configuration delves into the darkness that plagues humanity, whether it be violence, corruption, or ...

  • The latest episode of the Revisited video series looks back at the 1980 William Peter Blatty film The Ninth Configuration

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7. Watch a cult classic #2: The Ninth Configuration - BFI

  • Apr 29, 2020 · Stacy Keach stars as troubled US army psychiatrist Colonel Vincent Kane, while Scott Wilson is mesmerising as Captain Billy Cutshaw, a former astronaut ...

  • Our series on the weirder, wilder side of cinema continues with a look at the directorial debut of The Exorcist author William Peter Blatty.

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8. The Ninth Configuration (1980) and Blatty's God science message

  • May 26, 2021 · The Ninth Configuration is one of the most offbeat, esoteric films you'll ever see. It seems to combine comedy and farce with a dark underbelly ...

  • William Peter Blatty is best known for novel and film, The Exorcist but he wrote an even better treatise. The Ninth Configuration is one of the most offbeat, esoteric films you’ll ever see. I…

The Ninth Configuration (1980) and Blatty's God science message

9. The Ninth Configuration (1980) - True Myth Media

  • Dec 23, 2019 · An isolated institution in the Pacific Northwest tries a controversial experimental treatment on its primarily Vietnam veteran population.

  • An isolated institution in the Pacific Northwest tries a controversial experimental treatment on its primarily Vietnam veteran population.

The Ninth Configuration (1980) - True Myth Media

10. The Ninth Configuration (1980) - Letterboxd

  • Army psychiatrist Colonel Kane is posted to a secluded gothic castle housing a military asylum. With a reserved calm, he indulges the inmates' delusions, ...

  • Army psychiatrist Colonel Kane is posted to a secluded gothic castle housing a military asylum. With a reserved calm, he indulges the inmates' delusions, allowing them free rein to express their fantasies.

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11. The Ninth Configuration (1980) - Contains Moderate Peril

  • Apr 8, 2017 · In a remote Gothic castle in the Northwest of America, the US military attempt to determine whether a group of apparently deranged ...

  • In a remote Gothic castle in the Northwest of America, the US military attempt to determine whether a group of apparently deranged servicemen and one astronaut, Billy Cutshaw (Scott Wilson), are faking their insanity. When experimental psychiatrist Hudson Kane (Stacey Keach) arrives to take charge,

The Ninth Configuration (1980) - Contains Moderate Peril

12. Faith, Doubt, and Existential Horror | 'The Ninth Configuration' | Medium

  • Jun 11, 2021 · Following the introduction to the film's supporting ensemble of soldiers who make the facility staff's lives a living hell, we're introduced to ...

  • By Harper Smith

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13. William Peter Blatty's The Ninth Configuration - Film Obsessive

  • May 5, 2019 · The Ninth Configuration (1980),written-produced-directed by Blatty based on his novel of the same name from 1978, is a psychological drama ...

  • William Peter Blatty's The Ninth Configuartion is an overlooked psychological thriller that is worthy giving a second look

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14. The world's most comprehensive Film database - AFI Catalog

  • Toward the end of the Vietnam War, sixteen military patients are held for psychiatric observation in Center Eighteen, a Gothic castle in the American ...

  • Toward the end of the Vietnam War, sixteen military patients are held for psychiatric observation in Center Eighteen, a Gothic castle in the American Northwest. Major Marvin Groper, dressed in a Marine uniform, lines up the men, who wear various costumes, and informs them that a psychiatrist will be the new commanding officer. The men sing “You Are My Sunshine” as Marine Colonel Hudson Kane arrives, and Marine guards Master Sergeant Krebs and Gunnery Sergeant Christian lead him to his quarters. That evening, Lieutenant Bennish, his face corked in blackface, sings along with an Al Jolson recording, while other men play cards. Colonel Richard Fell, the staff “medic,” explains to Kane that an heiress shipped the castle, stone by stone, and all its statuary from Germany in the early 1900s. Kane does not consider the castle’s atmosphere “therapeutic.” He vaguely recognizes Dr. Fell, but cannot remember where he saw him. Dr. Fell telephones a superior officer to inform him that it is too soo

15. Ninth Configuration, The (1980) - watershade.net

  • In a huge bizarre castle, the US Army keeps a mental hospital for soldiers and one astronaut. They are being studied as they are treated.

  • The Ninth Configuration (1980), written and directed by William Peter Blatty.

16. The Ninth Configuration Reviews - Metacritic

  • Summary A former marine arrives at a mental asylum housed in a remote castle to run it. There he attempts to rehabilitate the patients by letting them act ...

  • A former marine arrives at a mental asylum housed in a remote castle to run it. There he attempts to rehabilitate the patients by letting them act out their craziest fantasies and desires.

The Ninth Configuration Reviews - Metacritic

17. 259. THE NINTH CONFIGURATION (1980) | 366 Weird Movies

  • Nov 30, 2016 · The title The Ninth Configuration refers to the first of these, a one-paragraph summary of Lecomte du Nouy's evolutionary theories that life is ...

  • AKA Twinkle Twinkle Killer Kane “Kane said quietly, ‘Why won’t you go to the moon?’ ‘Why do camels have humps and cobras none? Good Christ, man, don’t ask the he…

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