Wise Blood [Blu-ray]

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.