GL84 Trying to get on with her life, a teenager in a home for special children after battling the demons finds that her previous encounter with the being is returning when another priest arrives to figure out what happened previously and that it takes both of their powers to defeat the demon.One of the most maligned films in history, this does have a few bright spots to help it out. One of the most obvious is its complete cheesiness as everything in here is mistakenly bad, but it's still a fun watch. It's fun to see how everything comes together, not only with the returning characters but the idea of having the spirit as well is a novel idea and much fun can be had from seeing just how it goes through events. The idea of the hypnosis machine triggering the different visions of the demon's previous encounters throughout history that gives this plenty to like in the first half. It's got a silly quality which the original didn't have in that everything in here is so over-the-top with the revelations showing the fighter braving the various terrains or fighting off the deadly swarm of locusts ravaging their camp which is absolutely reveling in cheese that few films have. It's great to see how this plays out, and really sets up the finale that really has a great impact to it being a huge action set-piece. This is the high point of the film involving the battle to get home and the battle inside the house that leaves the entire place in ruins with all the different tricks and tactics employed throughout here to get the upper hand. There are several things about this that didn't really work. The main issue is that the film really goes on far longer than it should and contains a lot of useless moments. The Africa scenes are twice as long as they should be, the sequences in the hospital are equally overlong and in general, there are scenes in here that are there for pretty much no real reason. That just makes it more hopeful when something will happen, only for more dialog to take place. The other main issue here is the complete disregard for comprehension in here. It makes no sense at all and has a feeling that it enjoys being that way. Going through everything in here that makes no sense at all is a task that's far too hard to try to explain and get out of the way, and it feels like that's what the feel was going in, as there's no way that something this incomprehensive was by fault. Some of it can make a headache causing time, the wrong feeling when trying to explain something that was really hard to understand the first time around. These are the main things wrong with it, but they do count for a lot.Rated R: Violence, Language and Brief Nudity.

kamcjm Exorcist II is terrible. It is proof of trolling and people who must be paid to give positive reviews to horrible movies. I have seen this before here. A truly bad movie like The Heretic is being given its dues by real reviewers, who are all giving it a 1, 2 or 3 out of 10; when suddenly along comes a bunch of people who claim the movie is actually great and under-rated. They just "can't believe" all the terrible reviews. Well, the truth is there aren't that many people with horrible taste in movies. There just aren't. Only a very special person could find good in this movie. And the world isn't full of that many special people as are commenting here. The trolls are ruining this site for the real movie lovers. And anyone who loves movies would most certainly not love this one.

talisencrw I have all the respect in the world for John Boorman--his 'Point Blank' and 'Deliverance' are excellent--but this sequel to one of the greatest horror movies ever made simply falls listless and flat. Of course, the script is extremely talky and lifeless--as if it had been 'exorcised' of all the wonder and shock that William Friedkin's vision of the battle of good vs. evil would entail. Yes, Sir Richard Burton was a great actor--yet when shoehorned with a crappy script and with his more irritating peccadilloes left unrestrained, he can be such a chore and bore to watch. Though I have not seen the two more recent 'prequels' for the 'Exorcist' franchise, I can safely say that while 'Exorcist II' is not the worst horror movie ever made (that, by the way, never seemed its intention), it's certainly the worst of the original trilogy--and by a country mile. This is a work that would probably bore the demons so much, they would decide to get out of Regan MacNeil's body, and perhaps even leave Earth's plane altogether, never even wanting a return ticket.

SnoopyStyle Dr. Gene Tuskin (Louise Fletcher) treats troubled kids including Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair). Regan seems normal but she doesn't remember that night in Washington. Father Philip Lamont (Richard Burton) joins her this time to investigate the death of Father Merrin. Dr. Tuskin uses a synchronized hypnotist machine on Regan that links their minds. Lamont discover the demon Pazuzu resides inside Regan and he goes to Africa to search for a cure from Kokumo (James Earl Jones).The higher they climb, the farther they fall. There is an obvious way to make the sequel to Exorcist. This is not it. There is nothing scary. It's trying to explain the Exorcist rather than making a bigger Exorcist. The hypnotist machine is laughable and flattens the movie. The African story is muddled and drags. It may be teaching more about locus than anything else. The locus POV is also somewhat laughable. This is simply wrong in so many ways.