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Hopefully you've seen BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL. Now it's time to revisit the source of all the controversy! The mistake people make with EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC is assuming it wants to be a sequel to THE EXORCIST. What it actually wants to be is a multimillion-dollar planetarium show about sainthood. 

Few sequels have wandered so boldly away from their source. Released four years after William Friedkin’s landmark horror film, this quintessential John Boorman freakout abandons claustrophobic terror in favor of mysticism, science fiction, dream logic, and theological speculation. When Father Lamont (Richard Burton) is tasked with investigating the death of Father Merrin, his search leads him back to Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair), whose past encounter with demonic possession appears connected to a mysterious force stretching across continents and centuries. 

Locust swarms, psychic synchronizers, African visions, doppelgängers, and cosmic battles between good and evil collide in a film that seems determined to reinvent itself from scene to scene. Dismissed on release but increasingly admired for its audacity, EXORCIST II remains one of the strangest productions ever mounted by a major Hollywood studio. Ambitious, baffling, beautiful, ridiculous, and frequently all four at once, it occupies a category reserved for films that pivot so spectacularly into insanity they create entirely new forms of success. 

Directed by John Boorman 

1977 |USA | English language | Blu-Ray 

Rated R

Concessions

Concessions are available for all screenings and the Harris Theater is now BYOB. Guests who bring alcoholic beverages must be 21 years or older and provide valid photo ID upon request, a $5 charge will be issued per guest.