What I Liked: The
set design is kinda interesting with a giant balcony made of mirrors, a
hospital with windows for walls and an ancient curtain made of cloth strips
that come together to show a face painted on it.
What I Didn’t Like:
Pretty much everything else.
Overall Impressions:
This sequel is notoriously bad and I have to unfortunately confirm that
everything you’ve heard is true. The
story doesn’t make much sense, the acting is either stilted (Louise Fletcher (Virtuosity)) or clumsily intense
(Richard Burton (Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Wolf?)) and it’s kinda boring.
I can see this having value if you liked the first movie a
lot because they attempt to fill in some background on the demon that possessed
Regan. Plus it’s a continuation of Regan’s
story so you get to see what she’s been up to a couple of years after the
exorcism, which has got to be at least a little interesting to big fans.
If I was into the original I would find this a fascinating
mess and try to pick apart the things that work and the things that don’t work. But I’m not and it doesn’t fall into the
so-bad-it’s-good category for me so this picture can go to hell.
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