Exorcist 2 - The Heretic details
| Format: | 18 DVD |
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| Starring: | Ned Beatty, Max von Sydow, Kitty Winn, Louise Fletcher, Linda Blair, Paul Henreid, James Earl Jones, Richard Burton |
| Director: | John Boorman |
| Genres: | Horror, Thriller |
| Studio: | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Name | Discs | |
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Exorcist 2 - The Heretic |
18 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 53 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 20 Oct 2003 |
| Main languages: | English |
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a giant thanksgiving turkey of a film
By ATfilmcritic from London , 22 May 2005[Highly rated reviewer]
Although not quite as bad as it’s reputed to be, this notorious turkey of a sequel does hold a certain intrigue, like watching a horrendous car crash in slow motion. You want to stop, but there’s a grim fascination that keeps you going.
To see one of the world’s most accomplished directors lead an exceptional cast of Oscar-winners into a film of such stupendous idiocy isn’t exactly a sight you see every day.
And it is stupendously idiotic. Completely missing what made the original so successful, Boorman overloads with pseudo-religious, quasi-psychological, very-pretentious mumbo-jumbo.
It has its moments, and the African dream sequences are well done, but this really is one of those films you can call embarrassing.
And you can tell those who made it felt the same way: after a disastrous premiere, Boorman rushed home to edit it all over again. Didn’t make much of a difference.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(39)Excrement as compared to cream...
By ad31677 (5 reviews) , 26 Mar 2013If you've ever had the experience of tasting great chanpagne and then had to drink, say, Lambrini; if you've ever been drinking a great real ale and then had to drink Skol or Ace, well if you know that and you watched The Exorcist and enjoyed it, well, you'll know what to expect from The Exorcist II - The Heretic. In a way it's like Omen II compared to The Omen - it fills in some time and some information about the people in the first film but in and of itself it goes nowhere. Exorcist II is just like that. Don't be fooled by the casting of Richard Burton, James Earl Jones and others - they're as much use as OJ Simpson, Burt Lancaster, Sophia Loren and Richard Harris were in 'The Cassandra Crossing'. The whole 'locust' premise to the film is a huge let-down in itself and nothing else - no acting, no sets or special effects or music - can possibly make up for it. Just don't bother watching it at all. There are no redeeming features at all. The film is an anti-climax and there are plot devices which are just futile and meaningless (like Sharon's ultimate demise).- Was this review helpful to you?
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Uniquely Disturbing
By Marrrk (2 reviews) from York , 26 Oct 2012THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Show review anywayHide
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May the power of Christ compel you..
By silverspider (5 reviews) from Grantham , 26 Dec 2011not to watch this... unless your really drunk and fancy a laugh. It borders on the ridiculous to pantomime. Skip straight to III that is by far scarier than this and a worthy sequel.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Hilarious! So bad it's good!
By Aroha (6 reviews) from Edinburgh , 03 Sep 2010[Highly rated reviewer]
John Boorman famously criticised the original movie for being about men torturing a young girl and it's clear from his clumsy analysis that he neither understood nor cared about the 'The Exorcist'. As a result he delivered this incompetently made, hilariously risible sequel. It's hard to know where to begin with what's wrong with it. Here are some highlights -
1. James Earl Jones, dressed as a giant locust.
2. Linda Blair, cheerily delivering the line 'I used to be possessed by a demon, but it's okay - he's all gone now!'. 3. The clumsy sci-fi 'mind meld' device which drives the plot whenever the screenwriters get too bored to explain how people know things. 4. Linda's tap-dance routine, no I'm not kidding. 5. The line, 'If Pazuzu comes for you, I will spit a leopard' - no, I don't know what it means either. I hope I've intrigued you enough to watch the film. While it fails completely in being either interesting or scary it's one of those car-wreck films that is so hilariously bad you won't be able to look away.- Was this review helpful to you?
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God awful!
By PJshadow (199 reviews) from Leeds , 29 Jul 2010[Highly rated reviewer]
Absolutely abysmal sequel to the excellent Exorcist. Richard Burton sleepwalks his way through this truly dire film. Set four years after the original this total farce is set mainly in a glass walled pyschiatric hospital where Regan is being counselled for the after effects of her possession. This leads to all manner of trouble as we go back to Regan's possession years before and then back to Africa with Father Merrin's memories of devilish episodes. Starnge goings on with locust, Richard Burton fighting a fire with a wooden crutch, some tap dancing and various other ridiculous scenes make up the rest of the film. Just terrible. Exorcise some common sense and give this one a miss!- Was this review helpful to you?
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