Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Absolutely Fantastic

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

This movie gave me PTSD, anytime a movie start to even remotely look like Exorcist 2 I start to have a panic attack. Just don't wast your time mental stability over this movie it's not worth it.

This movie shares a lot in common with Blair Witch 2: a greedy studio wants to cash in a popular horror film but the original director wants no part in it, so they get someone who despised the first movie expecting something marketable only to watch in horror as the new director sends them back a confusing, pretentious mess that wouldn't entertain a toddler, let alone a grown adult.I didn't really like the original movie, it wasn't my thing. But this movie is so offensively awful to all of the senses a movie can influence that it isn't anyone's thing.In the span of about two hours, this movie gives us: - A magical dream machine that can look into your mind - A priest riding a giant bumble bee - Linda Blair curing a young girl's autism by smiling at her - Linda Blair walking on the air - James Earl Jones in a locust costume - Characters giving corny monologues about "hope" and "light" that really mean nothing - Sexy Linda Blair clone trying to seduce a priest before turning into a spooky zombie monsterThis movie is a long, painful slog of boring nonsense and bad writing and it's all managed by a really bad director who's just a really dumb person in general.Legend has it, this film was so bad that the only audience that didn't laugh it off the screen chased the producers down the street. You ask me? They were all far too nice.Exorcist II: The Heretic is bedeviled by the horror of a 1/10. It is one of my Top 5 worst movies of all time.

If "The Exorcist" is one of the best horror films ever, this sequel can be one of the worst. The story seeks to give logical continuity to the first film but ends up losing all logic. Linda Blair retakes the character who made her famous, but she's so stupid and shallow that we just do not recognize her. Next to her comes the veteran Richard Burton, in the role of an unconvincing Catholic priest. In fact, he was already drowned in alcoholism in the same way that Blair might no longer be unknown to drugs. There is no merit in the support cast, no use talking. The script should have been used as toilet paper before the movie was shot. Everything that could be stuck in the film ended up appearing, invariably ridiculous, forced and pitiful: from obvious allusions to the hippies (watch costumes, for example) to an absurd story involving an African tribe, not to mention that box with strobe lights which left the person hypnotized. To make the salad more complete only the aliens and medieval knights were lacking. Can we offer this film to Pazuzu, to see if he takes the movie away for good?

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.