Wise Blood was John Huston’s first film after Fat City, and while likewise set in small-town America, it’s completely different in tone. Fat City was about boxers in Stockton, California: resolutely naturalistic with great performances by Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrell and Stacey Keach. Wise Blood is set in the South - it was filmed in Georgia, though the original novel is set in Tennessee, and it is anything but a slice of dramatic naturalism. Brad Dourif, a very fine actor who seems to appear exclusively in cult movies, plays one Hazel Motes, an atheist determined on setting up a Church Without Christ.