I'm not sure I properly heard Satan's explanation, at the end of the film, of the Knight's inability to return to the future. What happened to the Knight's modern-day counterpart? I thought I heard that the hypnosis machine (or whatever it was) had been turned off, thus killing him.
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Not quite. The Knight was actually the Doctor from the future, who had used the hypnotized mind as a road to the past. With her death, the road back to the future was no longer available, so he was trapped forever in the past due to her choosing to give life to her future lives by being beheaded.
If I remember correctly, didn't the devil tell him he was going to hell for eternity?
So, to sum it up in legal terminology: Get lost, you bum.
The doctor magically transported himself into the past while hypnotizing the girl (past-life regression) to become a naked secondary character in the storyline, the doctor then beaned (possibly killed) an unnamed knight on horse, stealing the armor to clothe his naked psychologist-hypnotist butt to play the eager spectator in the plot.
In the beginning of the movie the hypnotist was an active voice-over along with the hypnotized hooker whom guided and saved Helene's life in the past. How one forms a full human body in the long gone past from nothing is not only merely Godly (man from the dust), but cross-temporal in power (guiding two living bodies at one time in different time periods). I cannot see a mere Devil locking that power down by any measure. All he need do is hypnotize another woman and engage in "Future-Life Progression" and temporally-hitchhike back to his original time period.
Quintus Ratcliff (the psychologist-hypnotist + Temporal Demi-God in human form) beats Chris Reeves in the movie "Somewhere in Time" (1980) whom time-traveled with a mere self-temporal-delusion (foiled by a penny). Quintus Ratcliff also beats Doctor Who in that Quintus Ratcliff can travel in time + space with mere hypno-hitchhiking (although I doubt Quintus Ratcliff is going to be planet hopping or zipping about in deep airless space any time soon with hypnosis-power).
The guy was screwed!
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