This movie was possessed by the demon of bad film-making.

I am blogging some of my past movie reviews from Facebook.

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Allow me to summarize those portions of “The Exorcist II: The Heretic” that I was able to watch before needing to turn it off:

  • A still-too-young Linda Blair tap-dances braless on stage, with short-shorts that are nearly illegal.
  • Louise Fletcher is a therapist who treats patients with a machine that actually allows people to literally enter the subconscious minds of others. Nevermind that a technology like this could revolutionize the human experience, especially with respect to psychology, art, literature and religion.  It is quietly tucked away in a treatment center for children with autism (where, for some reason, a psychological trauma victim is also being treated).
  • A giant , sentient, demonic locust chases wildebeests across the African veldt. James Earl Jones gets pissed andmagically turns into a leopard.    This was a thing.  This happened in the movie.

WHY did I not just turn it off?!  WHY DID I NOT JUST TURN THE MOVIE OFF?!?!

(Perhaps I was possessed.)

Exorcist II The Heretic (1977)

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