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Richard Burton (Actor), Linda Blair (Actor), John Boorman (Director, Producer) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Richard Burton, Linda Blair, Louise Fletcher, Kitty Winn, Max von Sydow
  • Directors: John Boorman
  • Producers: John Boorman, Richard Lederer
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Whv
  • DVD Release Date: 20 Oct. 2003
  • Run Time: 98 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000AISJS
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Regan (Linda Blair), the demonically possessed child from 'The Exorcist', is now a relatively normal, happy teenager, living under the care of a psychiatrist (Louise Fletcher) and her mother's ex-secretary (Kitty Winn). When the demons return to haunt Regan, priest Father Lamont (Richard Burton), himself suffering a crisis of faith, is sent to investigate.

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When it was released in 1977 The Exorcist II: The Heretic was virtually laughed off the screen. A much-anticipated sequel to the Oscar-winning original, it turned out to be an unintentionally hilarious mishmash and received such terrible reviews that director John Boorman yanked it out of cinemas. He reedited it, cutting eight minutes in hopes of getting the story (written by William Goodhart) to the point of coherency--but to no avail. The film remains a kind of reverse gold standard for sequels. It's still a ridiculously overacted, although at times visually haunting, movie. Richard Burton stars as a troubled priest (something of a speciality of his) who is brought in to follow up on the case of Linda Blair, who is institutionalised, still troubled by her encounter with the devil (who wouldn't be?). By the time they confront Satan's minion in the final struggle, you'll be rooting for evil to win. --Marshall Fine

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4.0 out of 5 starsA logical sequel for intelligent viewers
By Euromancer TOP 1000 REVIEWER on 26 Aug. 2013
Format: DVD
My first viewing of 'The Heretic' was at the cinema as the second part of a double bill, the first film in the programme being 'The Exorcist'. This would have been in about 1980. 'The Heretic' made perfect sense as a sequel to 'The Exorcist' to me then and I haven't changed my mind since. Personally, I think 'The Heretic' has a bad reputation as (1) it failed to pander to the expectations of an audience hungry for sensationalism, an audience which generally expects a re-tread of the same ideas in a sequel (this is common in genre circles), (2) early reviews created the expectation that it was 'rubbish' and 'overacted' and (3) the fact that there have been at least four versions issued and what's really needed is a new edit of the film.The version available on DVD (its the same in the box set) is inferior to the original UK rental VHS. There are some plot differences, for example.

'The Heretic' explains and explores why the demon Pazuzu (it's not the devil, kids, but an Assyrian wind demon - his statue is discovered by Merrin in the first film's Iraq sequence) took possession of Regan (Linda Blair) in the first place. So the story actually moves on in 'The Heretic' by revealing the backstory behind 'The Exorcist' - in fact, if you re-watch 'the Exorcist' in the light of the revelations depicted in 'the Heretic', the original film grows in power. After all, it would be impossible to replicate the shock and mystery of 'the Exorcist', so why not look into why Regan was possessed and why her backward-English tape revealed the demon calling for Merrin in the first place?

Consequently, any audience expecting repetition will be disappointed, but any intelligent viewer will enjoy the inventiveness of the film. Visually, it is superb.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsExorcist II: Electric Boogaloo
By Trevor Willsmer HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWER on 22 Dec. 2007
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The worst of the sequels and prequels (the film itself falls into both categories) but also, despite its reputation, the only one to show a profit on its theatrical release, Exorcist II: Electric Boogaloo - sorry, The Heretic - is one of those films you can make a case for being not THAT bad. Just not a very convincing one. It's a hugely ambitious film with over-reaching ideas married to a typically bad Rospo Pallenberg script filled with lumbering construction and crudely on-the-nose direlogue that typifies everything that's so painfully wrong about John Boorman at his self-indulgent worst. Originally intended as a more conventional sequel to be directed by Rosemary's Baby editor Sam O'Steen, with only Linda Blair, Von Sydow, Kitty Winn and make-up man Dick Smith returning from the original (though Lee J. Cobb was scheduled to return before dying), the studio instead decided to hire a more experienced name director who made no secret of his hatred for the original, giving him almost complete creative control and taking the material on a huge leap into the esoteric from which it never recovered.

The hook of a priest investigating the original exorcism to save Father Merrin's reputation amid rumors of heresy was retained from William Goodhart's heavily rewritten script (amazingly he lobbied for, and won, sole writing credit), but instead of projectile vomiting and genital self-mutilation-by-crucifix it opts for a more metaphysical plot. Where the character of Merrin in the novel was inspired by the controversial Catholic philosopher and palaeontologist Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the script embraced his theories of a spiritual and mental evolution that would ultimately lead to man developing a universal consciousness and becoming one with God.Read more ›
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1.0 out of 5 starsVery funny indeed.
By Mr. G. Morgan TOP 500 REVIEWER on 4 Aug. 2015
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A director of genius has rarely stooped so low. Boorman, a brilliant director on 'Deliverance' and later to make such wonders as 'Excalibur,' here makes the director of the smash hit first film of Blatty's book, the workmanlike, effective William Friedkin look like Ingmar Bergman. It is hard to credit just how awful this effort is, but at least it can be honestly said that it has all the magnetic attractiveness of a car crash. Yes at times we see the visionary power Boorman possesses but more often he is sunk by weak writing and poor acting. I mean the sight of Burton, a thespian incapable of seeing the top without being impelled over it, flying on a locust is hardly Hieronymous Bosch, and him sonorously intoning plums like "Kokomo can lead me to Pazuzu" [I bet he can Father Lamont!] only convinces me of the rightness of many skeptics' views of Aleister Crowley as a fat oaf, rather than the embodiment of the Existence of Evil. While not as stupid as the so-bad-it's-not-even-fun, third film in the series with poor Brad Dourif, the way this effort parodies the first film by extending it in time beyond the book is weak, there's hardly a story and lack of narrative drive is disabling: Regan is possessed again, Burton/Lamont comes in once more to fight the Forces of Evil ..blah, blah ( I love the way some style her 'Reagan' prescient or WHAT!?) but there's worse dialogue, poorer actors and zero inspiration, must've been a sobering experience for all concerned, and strictly a cynical cash in. Except for Burton, obviously. Not even a bit scary but good for a laugh: file under So Bad It's Good.
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