A retrospective by Brooks Rich Merry Christmas, everyone. No this has nothing to do with Christmas. I mean it has Christian overtones and has to do with the struggles of faith but there's nothing holly or jolly in this film. This is a weird one and I will keep this short as I could have written a full in depth essay on this one back in film school. I would have had I know about it. This is one of those films I'll bring up that's not for everyone. It's a surreal film written and directed by William Peter Blatty, who wrote The Exorcist. Sometime during the end of the Vietnam War a castle in the Pacific Northwest, sure yeah, is being used an insane asylum for military veterans. Inmates include a man putting on an all dog adaptation of Shakespeare and an astronaut who snapped on the eve of a mission. A new commanding officer is taking over, Colonel Kane, played by a brilliant and subdued Stacy Keach, but he may be crazier than the inmates. There's a lot more to this. ...