Ok…where’s the camera? This is a joke right, somebody’s putting me on! This can’t be the sequel to the great Exorcist…sadly it is. This film is an incoherent mess. Yes I do admire a sequel that doesn’t copy the original but this one goes too far.

Where do I begin? Is it the silly mind melding devices that they use? (I won’t even begin on how that thing works) Is it the revealing of the demon’s identity? (he’s a giant, flying grasshopper named Pazuzu) Is it all the African bull crap they toss our way? Is it the atrocious dialogue, ("I traveled this route before, on the wings of a demon"- "She has evolved to resist the brushing of the wings!"…what???) the putrid acting or the snore-inspiring screenplay? It’s all of it and then some.

I can’t cut around it, this film sucks the big one.

At least if the film made sense it maybe could’ve been bearable but this puppy is on drugs. Why does Regan feel pain when Father Lemont does? Why do pigeons always surround Reagan? Why is that tap dancing sequence even in the film? Why is Dr Gene the only doctor in the house? Why does Burton stretch the word evillll? Why are Regan’s tits always on display? (bras didn’t exist in 77?) Is it my dirty mind or did Regan and the doc have a lesbo thang going on? Why is there two Regan’s in the end? And why does the police wait until everybody leaves the house to swarm all over it? (Hilarious)?

The basic storyline is just a bad idea. It tries to expand on the story set up in the first one, too bad the original said it all: Regan’s a normal girl possessed by a demon…period. This whole Regan is a force of a good, the demon is a god of the air named Pazuzu thang is for the birds and just not interesting.

The film clearly runs away from horror (rumor has it that Boorman hated the original, he thought it was disgusting) and embraces some kind of new-wave, spiritual, artsy fartsy direction that maybe made sense to the director but that left my horror loving butt in the dust.

Exorcist 2 exists in at least three versions. The original version was 117 minutes long and was recut by director John Boorman the day after the premiere into a 110 minutes version (the audience booed, laughed and threw shit at the screen), the one released theatrically Major differences include the addition of a recap of the events of the first film through narration and freeze frame.

Using stock shots of Linda Blair from the first film for the climax (all new shots of Regan possessed were done by a double because Linda Blair refused to have the possession makeup done on her again) and an alternate ending where Richard Burton's character is killed (In the original version, he runs off with Regan to help her be a force of good).

The European version is also purported to be different. For a long time, only the recut version of Exorcist 2 was available for TV, cable and on video. Recently, the original 117-minutes cut has found it's way to video and recent TNT airings.