Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Deep in a forest of pine trees near the coast of Washington State lies a grotesque Gothic mansion commandeered by the Pentagon for use as a special psychiatric hospital for the military Those elite personnel who know of its existence & the nature of Project Freud refer to it as Centre Eighteen Confined to the centre are high-ranking military officers who are undergoing treatment for mental breakdowns which are unaccountable by their service experiences Determined to establish the true nature & origin of the men&s mental illness the Pentagon enlist the services of Colonel Hudson Kane a brilliant yet strangely unorthodox psychiatrist Kane s unusual approach helps him to withstand the tests that a wildly eccentric fringe inflicts on all the new medical officers Typical of their number is Captain Cutshaw an astronaut who aborted a space probe He is convinced that God is a fraud & that the man in the moon tried to take advantage of his sister His fellow inmates are similarly consumed with inner torments they fear the evil within themselves & are afraid that within a Godless universe man is alone in leading a purposeless existence Slowly through the love he possesses for his fellow man Colonel Kane is able to break down the lunatic façade of the inmates & of Captain Cutshaw in particular but as he leads the way back to a world of reality the dividing line between sanity & madness assumes an increasingly vague definition so much so that Kane s colleagues pose the question of who is the therapist to whom with real urgency The Ninth Configuration is a taut & gripping tale which mixes theology & psychology in a search for God & the answer to the mystery of Kane s true identity It is a film that director producer & writer William Peter Blatty had wanted to make for a long time Based on one of Blatty s earlier novels entitled & Twinkle Twinkle Killer Kane& the film had been in the planning for a number of years &I d wanted to do this film for quite a while& noted the creator of The Exorcist &I always knew that eventually I would get it made It is a very special story I m happy that I never gave up&