Lollivan
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Juana
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
Fleur
Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
MonsterVision99
After hearing all the negative comments people made about the movie I was expecting this to be a really awful sequel to one of my favorite films of all time. I wasn't going into it with the intention of hating it, I just thought it would be horrible, and surprise, surprise, it turned out to be a really great experience."The Exorcist II: The Heretic" doesn't have much in common with the original film, but looking at it as its own thing, as its own story, I must say that it manages to be really entertaining and captivating. Some people find it to be incoherent, silly and nonsensical, and it kinda of is, I can see how people wouldn't like it, but hating it like people hate it now? is just inconceivable to me.Its not a film that you are meant to be scare of, its a film that will take you in a surreal experience, its one of the closest things I have seen on film that resembles a dream. It doesn't stray away from the plot enough to be compared to something like "Eraserhead" and its not as straightforward as the original was, the original was a great tale told in a very classy and frightening way. This movie falls somewhere in between those two and I believe it balances the surreal scenes well enough so that you care about whats happening on screen without them being distracting or too weird, but doesn't linger too much on the most mundane dialog scenes.I find the silly scenes to be quite fitting within the films mood and tone, I don't find them distracting or funny just mesmerizing. I would say that this is not a movie for everyone, not even for the most hardcore horror fans but I loved it. There's some genius camera work in this film, every shot could work as a magnificent painting on my wall, it has some memorable and fascinating scenes and themes, also, the music is quite riveting.
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.
adonis98-743-186503
A teenage girl once possessed by a demon finds that it still lurks within her. Meanwhile, a priest investigates the death of the girl's exorcist. Exorcist II: The Heretic suffers from what most horror sequels do which is a bad script and just the same old story all over again with things that make no sense and the whole Pazuzu thing bored me to death i mean seriously this film is really slow paced and for some reason actors such as James Earl Jones (Star Wars and Conan The Barbarian), Richard Burton and Louise Fletcher are in here for some reason which is probably the money. Overall Exorcist 2 is nowhere near as good as the first film or contains any of the horror that the original movie had plus the film is considered one of the worst sequels of all time and you can see why although nothing will ever beat "Nightmare on Elm Street 6" (3/10)
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.
