Belinda Beatty, James Earl Jones, Joey Lauren Adams

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R, 1 hr. 58 min.

Directed by: John Boorman

Release Date: January 1, 1977

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DVD Release Date: August 20, 2002

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  • September 18, 2009
    Overall it?s not a great film but there are moments of greatness in it! It?s not as bad as people say but it?s nowhere near as good as the original!
  • October 22, 2008
    What's wrong with this movie?
    (spoilers to follow)

    1) Nurse Ratched's fantastic new psychiatric device are two strobe lights.

    2) Linda Blair fondles Louis Flecther's breast.

    3) Richard Burton appears to be looking for the bar.

    4) The fact that the church sends Merrin to exor...( read more)cise Regan in the first film, but he is suddenly a heretic in this one.

    5) Wasn't there a Father Karras in the first one somewhere?

    6) Apparently Regan's mom is more concerned with her career and dumps off her daughter on the first shrink with strobe lights she could find.

    7) Balconies with partial rails for falling and fake falling.

    8) Locust documentary footage.

    9) The fact that the only plot point that actually made sense was Regan's tap dance recital.

    10) Gratuitous Ned Beatty cameo.

    11) Richard Burton's shirt during the last twenty minutes.

    12) James Earl Jones spitting cherry tomatoes at Richard Burton.

    13) The fact that ENNIO MORRICONE scored this piece of shit.

    14) The fact that not only does a taxi cab crash through a wrought iron and brick fence, a woman catches on fire, and a portion of the house implodes no one in the entire block comes out to see what the hell is going on even though there are numerous lights on throughout the neighborhood until...

    15) Richard Burton and Regan leave then suddenly three thousand people show up asking Louis Flecther if she's OK while there's a charred corpse on the front stoop of the neighbor's house.

    16) A stainless steel bird house.
  • June 1, 2008
    Hilarious movie!!! I laughed like hell all the way through!!!

    Which brings me to the reason why I rated this like I did.

    Making people laugh in a horror movie is kinda like the opposite of where you try to go with it.

    And the soundtrack... picture a South American soap opera s...( read more)et Meets a Sex and the City episode's level of complexity.

    It's worse than that.

    An insult to 1973's The Exorcist, even if an unintentionally comic one.
  • June 21, 2007
    Holey jeepers! The Exorcist II offers a surreal abstract story of possession with Regan being tormented by Pazuzu the locust demon, which was still lingering in her subconcious from the first Exorcist movie. Very weird and trippy with great mind-bending cinematography. It doesn't...( read more) make a whole lot of sense, but is a fun ride. Richard Burton appears as the Priest who is trying to rid her of the evil Locusts. The funnest scene was when Regan was attacked during her tap-dancing competition. Nothing too scary happens, but it's a spectacular show of flying Locusts and exotic locations. James Earl Jones plays Kukomo, the man who the Locusts are scared of. Nice Locust-eye views of the countryside. The trailer with the demented disco music is totally awesome; it's included on the DVD.
  • October 26, 2006
    it was ok, but its not sure wether its a drama film a mystery film or a horror film and has elements of all three. definitely the worst of the three films.
  • November 17, 2009
    Still enjoyable to watch
  • November 5, 2009
    It was okay. Not the like the first one.
  • October 28, 2009
    Boring and pointless follow-up to one of the most successful horror films ever made. Why did they bother?
  • October 11, 2009
    Trying to cash in on the first,the true sequel actually materialises as Exorcist 3
  • October 10, 2009
    Quite possibly one of the worst sequels I have ever seen, and one of the worst films I have ever seen. I would have to see Regan get re-posessed but instead we are given an onslaught of locusts (which is a demonic sign in many ways but still... : \) which gets quite boring after...( read more) sometime. Background info on Father Merin is quite interesting but doesn't redeem the film whatsoever. The mind syncing device being the main plot device is a laugh and what's worse is that horrible ending with a "sexy" regan on the infamous bed. How sad this sequel is. The demon didn't even look like Regan this time, I wonder why that was. Big mistake on their part. The sadder part is that this film was beautifully shot and even well directed, however the garbage script ruined any chances of this being a decent film. AVOID AT ALL COSTS! Just pretend no sequel was ever made to the brilliant original.

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