Exorcist ii: the heretic5/14/2023 ![]() ![]() Whereas Friedkin’s film is stylistically in tune with the gritty docudrama terrain of his prior The French Connection, thus making its supernatural interruptions more unsettling, Boorman’s Exorcist II: The Heretic is an exercise in stylized affectation, effectively betraying its predecessor’s legacy. “I feel like Merlin,” John Boorman wrote in a 1991 diary, “an old wizard who finds himself living in a materialistic world where there is no place for magic.” That might as well explain the troubling legacy of Boorman’s derided sequel to The Exorcist, William Friedkin’s 1973 adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s horror novel of demon possession.
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