[Father Lamont]

I am still working on my re-edit. Things are slow right now because my aunt is in the hospital. She is not doing very well. I try when I get the time.

[granville1]

Sorry to hear of your aunt’s troubles. Always nice to hear from you.

[Father Lamont]

Thanks Granville. We went to see her again tonight. She’s doing much better. The doctors say she might get to come home soon.

[granville1]

That’s great – I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you all. Keep your chin up, and thanks for keeping us posted.

[kokumo]

“Exorcist II: The Heretic” suffers greatly for the studio mandated inclusion of the Merrin charactor neccessitating that time-travel lightbulb thingy. The entire project collapses around that one device.

[Father_Lamont]

I like Heretic. Great soundtrack, photography, Boorman is one of my favourite directors. And Richard Burton is one of the best actors ever. I just think that people expect a totally different direction. But that is just my opninion of course.

[drexul]

first off, kudos to father lamont. This topic actually made me register to leave comments, partly because I think hes right, that it deserves discussion as much as any exorcist movie, and partly because I felt guilty hat I enjoy reading the forums, but never participate…and I hate to see them sort of “die out”
That said, There isnt much about Exorcist II that i liked. I did buy it on DVD and have watched it several times TRYING to find something to appreciate about it. The one thing I really liked was when Sharon brought Father Lamont back to the house the first time. To me, that house has a more terrifying “haunted house” aspect to it then any other setting in a horror movie. The house was as much a charactor as anyone else…and I found myself wishing that had been a jumping off point for a sequel…not a haunted house movie per se, but I think that when something terrible happens in a home, there is something risidual that never goes away.

Also, it bugs me that LInda Blair was so adamnent that she would not wear any possesion make up in the film. To me that crippled it from the start and should have been a warning sign that they would have to go another direction.
Not to say I wanted her reposessed, as that would contradict the first movie…but hell, how cool would it have been to have her film scenes in the make up that were in the book but not in the first movie? You could have Sharon being interviewed by Lamont as they tour the house, and as she tells him the thing she saw, we flash back to those scenes. There were certainly plenty of possesion events that they were’nt able to put in the first movie.

Just my 2 cents.

[kokumo]

The person who should really be discussing this is Boorman. I can hardly find any significant material beyond a few snippets in recent years where the director admits “EII:TH” simply wasn’t scary and thus no amount of re-editing could save it. There’s a perfectly fine cut of the movie on dvd without any of the extras associated normally with an ‘event’ picture (turned out to be an extinction level event, but even so…). Does anyone know of any resourses out there where a perplexed fan might get a firsthand account of what the heck this guy was thinking?

[Father Lamont]

This movie needs a good discussion I think. We can start by listing a topic and then discuss it. What do you think.

Topic A:
MERRIN IN AFRICA

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