Exorcist II: The Heretic

I watched this because I had to know if it was as bad as the legend says. Reviews tell of a movie with terrible, confusing editing, a convoluted script, and laughable sequences that make the movie unintentionally hilarious. A movie that often winds up on lists of the worst movies ever made; not worst sequels, or worst horror movies, but worst movies outright. Instead, it’s just … boring. It has all the energy tying your shoes. The Scripps Spelling Bee has more action. Scenes just drag on, especially the scenes using the hypnosis machine, where you the viewer will have the awesome privilege of watching two people fall into a thousand yard stare across from one another. You also get to be creeped out by how this movie sexualizes Linda Blair in a way that is wholly unnecessary to the plot and feels exploitive. I’ve seen worse, though. It is far from the incoherent gibberish or accidental comedy its reputation would have you believe. It’s just dull and lifeless, too dull to find even the most perverse joy in watching.