Warner Bros.
Directed by John Boorman
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Warner Bros.)
Four years after the events in the original film, Linda Blair is seeing psychiatrist Louise Fletcher. They use something called "synced hypnosis" to revisit Blair's possession and even further back to Father Merrin's research in Africa. Richard Burton is a new priest assigned to clear Father Merrin but ends up getting more involved than he planned. After entering a trance via the synced hypnosis tool, he travels to Africa to find a witch doctor with power over the demon "Pazuzu" sent by Satan to kill healers such as Blair and Merrin. They have an epic final confrontation at the house in Georgetown where the original exorcism took place. A typical Boorman film overflowing with ideas and visuals, some believable and some downright preposterous. A completely different kind of movie than the original Exorcist and as a result almost universally derided, but boring it is not.
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