The Cardinal informs Lamont (who has had some experience at exorcism, and has been exposed to Merrin's teachings) that Merrin is up on posthumous heresy charges due to his controversial writings. Afterwards, Lamont returns to Vatican City where he is assigned by the Cardinal to investigate the death of Father Lankester Merrin, who had been killed four years prior in the course of exorcising the Assyrian demon Pazuzu from Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair). Father Philip Lamont (Richard Burton), is a priest struggling with his faith who attempts to exorcise a possessed South American girl living in a urban slum of Rio, Brazil, who claims to "heal the sick." The young woman then burns herself to death.The synopsis below may give away important plot points.
His investigation takes him to Africa where he locates another recipient of Merrin's exorcising and learns something fascinating and terrible about locusts. He also feels that Evil is literally an entity and that this entity is winning the battle over Good. Father Lamont undertakes his task reluctantly. Meanwhile, Father Philip Lamont is ordered by his cardinal to investigate the death of Father Merrin, the priest who died while performing an exorcism on Regan. It is desperate to emerge again and wreak havoc.
Tuskin's invention, a device that hypnotizes two persons and links their minds together, reveals that the demon, named Pazuzu, still lurks within her. The memories she represses are of the time she was possessed by a demon. Gene Tuskin works with troubled children, perhaps none more troubled than Regan MacNeil, who suffers from bad dreams and repressed memories.
Meanwhile, a priest investigates the death of the girl's exorcist.ĭr. Yet another version was released in Europe.A teenage girl once possessed by a demon finds that it still lurks within her. The film was recut and reintroduced to critical wrath and public indifference.
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Unfortunately, as with many films that attempt to break with convention and try something new, the movie was jeered and laughed at in its first cut, prompting the studio to panic and yank it from distribution. Most of the scenes involving Burton, Blair, and Fletcher are torturously inept-mainly due to misguided performances-the hallucinatory scenes of psychic discovery have a truly visionary quality, especially in the Africa sequence in which the camera swoops through the air on the back of a locust. Fletcher brings in a heretical priest, Burton, and hooks them both up to a mind-processing machine that melds their psyches, taking them on a bizarre exploration of good and evil. Blair, now 18, is again possessed by the demon Pazuzu but this time is treated by child psychologist Fletcher. Not as awful as its notorious reputation would indicate, but certainly not the neglected masterpiece its small cult of supporters has claimed, Boorman's gorgeously shot sequel to THE EXORCIST has isolated moments of breathtaking imagery, but its parts do not add up to a satisfying whole.
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