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%%* DecompositeCharacter* DecompositeCharacter: The movie introduces a twist in that the hospitalized boy turns out to not be the possessed one. In ''Dominion'', he really was possessed.

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* AdaptationalNationality: This film introduces Father Lankester Merrin as half British and half Dutch, explaining this way how he went from a priest in the Netherlands to an archeologist in a British colony. In the original novel, Merrin was Irish, and his name is fully English.



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* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: While the main characters investigate a tomb in the Church, the Turkana chief's wife gives birth to an already dead, rotten son.

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** Though the church's architecture and wall paintings do resemble Byzantine art, the statues are much more in line with Western art from the Renaissance on. The Byzantine priests in the beginning correctly use the Chi-Rho instead of the Cross, but the rosary looks more Catholic than Greek.

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** Though the church's architecture and wall paintings do resemble Byzantine art, the statues are much more in line with Western art from the Renaissance on.on (they were correct in ''Dominion'', however). The Byzantine priests in the beginning correctly use the Chi-Rho instead of the Cross, but the rosary looks more Catholic than Greek.



* ChurchMilitant: The Vatican has sent at least three expeditions headed by priests to the site, the last one consisting of [[spoiler:Father Francis]]. The first one in the 6th century was outright army.

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* ChurchMilitant: The Vatican has sent at least three expeditions headed by priests to the site, the last one consisting of [[spoiler:Father Francis]]. The first one in the 6th century was an outright army.



** Granville combines his character in ''Dominion'' with his AdaptedOut second-in-command, who was the racist one.



* CutCharacter: The Turkana chief and Granville's second in command don't appear in this version.
* TheDarknessGazesBack: In one scene, Merrin is stopped on his tracks by the reflection of several hyenas eyes peering out from the darkness.

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* CutCharacter: The Turkana chief chief, looting soldiers, and Granville's second in command don't appear in this version.
* TheDarknessGazesBack: In one scene, Merrin is stopped on his tracks by the reflection of several hyenas hyena eyes peering out from the darkness.



* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Despite being main characters, [[spoiler:Father Francis]] and [[spoiler:Sarah]] are dispatched in such sudden and simple manners that would have been avoided or survived if they were in any other movie.[[note]]Francis is stabbed with a spear by Possessed!Sarah and left hanging to be found by Merrin; Sarah has a brain hemorrhage after hiting the cave's floor at the end of her exorcism.[[/note]] In fact, the counterparts of both in ''Dominion'' did survive the film.

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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Despite being main characters, [[spoiler:Father Francis]] and [[spoiler:Sarah]] are dispatched in such sudden and simple manners that would have been avoided or survived if they were in any other movie.[[note]]Francis is stabbed with a spear by Possessed!Sarah and left hanging to be found by Merrin; Sarah has a brain hemorrhage after hiting the cave's floor at the end of her exorcism.[[/note]] In fact, the counterparts of both in ''Dominion'' did survive the film.[[/note]]



** [[spoiler:Granville]] shoots himself in the head after seeing his butterfly collection come to life.

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** [[spoiler:Granville]] Granville shoots himself in the head after seeing his butterfly collection come to life.



* ForegoneConclusion: Merrin will survive and become a Catholic priest again so he will face Pazuzu again 30 years later.

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* ForegoneConclusion: Merrin will survive survives and become becomes a Catholic priest again so he will face Pazuzu again 30 years later.



* HollywoodDarkness: Merrin's single gas lamp is enough to light the whole interior of the church and the caverns beneath it.

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* HollywoodDarkness: Merrin's single gas lamp is enough to light the whole interior of the church and the caverns beneath it.

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