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Exorcist II: The Heretic

1977

John Boorman

Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow ...

4.0

4,586

Horror A teenage girl once possessed by a demon finds that it still lurks within her. Meanwhile, a priest investigates the death of the girl's exorcist.

	Author	Review
United States	The New York Times	"[This sequel] is of such spectacular fatuousness that it makes the first seem virtually an axiom of screen art"	NEG
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"[It] is a much more interesting film than the original, and Boorman deserves credit for trying out some new ideas, even if most of them backfire"	NEU
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"Had more visual magic than a dozen movies"	POS
United States	Keith Phipps Decider	"It’s a strange brew and, as history has proven, not to everyone’s taste. But to dismiss it as merely bad, much less one of the worst movies ever made, is to ignore the ambition on display"	NEU
United States	Jim Knipfel Den of Geek	"I’ve been watching it year after year, searching desperately for that spark everyone else was missing. Tap dancing aside, I knew it was there. But no, it’s not. It’s just really fucking awful (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Niles Schwartz Slant	"Boorman’s stylistic gestures are dreamlike, but in the shadow of 'The Exorcist', it’s easy to see why viewers saw much of the action as fake (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"One of the various poor sequels (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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