Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Directed by William Peter Blatty
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Warner Bros.)
Police detective George C. Scott search for a serial killer hits home when his best friend becomes a victim while in the hospital. Just down the hall in the psycho ward is a man in isolation who claims to be the previously executed "Gemini killer", and also happens to (occasionally) look like the also long dead Father Karras from the first film. It turns out that the serial killer was allowed to possess the body of Karras just before his death by "the master" as a revenge for his exorcism. It's up to Scott, a professed atheist, and a new priest to perform another exorcism to release Karras. Part police procedural, part horror film, with lively dialogue, especially between Scott and the killer while in the jail cell, but also too many attempts at subtle comic relief and some over-the-top moments of horror.
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