British filmmaker Sir John Boorman has made some great movies over the decades. His credits include Point Blank, Excalibur, the Best Picture nominated Deliverance, the Best Picture nominated Hope and Glory, and The Tailor of Panama. He also made the famous turkey Zardoz, but at least that movie has a strong cult following. The Boorman movie that gets the most grief is the one that was a sequel to one of the most popular movies of all-time. He made Exorcist II: The Heretic. Director David Kittredge digs into that messy situation with the documentary Boorman and the Devil, which has been making the festival rounds and earning positive reviews recently, but hasn\u2019t managed to secure a distribution deal yet.<\/p>\n
Sure, Exorcist II: The Heretic<\/a> isn\u2019t a well-liked movie, but I\u2019m sure that a lot of genre fans would be interested in watching Boorman and the Devil to find out how the movie came out the way it did. Distributors need to snatch this one up.<\/p>\n Directed by Boorman from a screenplay by William Goodhart, Exorcist II: The Heretic has the following synopsis: Owing to his experience with exorcisms, Father Lamont is chosen by his superiors to investigate the death of Father Merrin, who died during the exorcism of young Regan MacNeil. Lamont finds Regan under the psychiatric care of Dr. Tuskin. By hypnotizing the girl, he is able to learn that Merrin previously exorcised the same demon from a boy in Africa. Hoping for answers, Lamont travels to Africa in search of the youth. Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow, Kitty Winn, Paul Henreid, and James Earl Jones star.<\/p>\n The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>\u2018s review of Boorman and the Devil<\/a> says, \u201cWhatever your take, the crazy story behind\u00a0Exorcist II: The Heretic\u00a0is ultimately one of nostalgia \u2014 for a time when ambitious filmmakers like Boorman could go to Hollywood and commit \u2018the sin of hubris,\u2019 and then go to hell for it.\u201d The IndieWire<\/a> reviewer wrote, \u201cDavid Kittredge delivers a dazzling reflection on the career of John Boorman in the documentary\u00a0Boorman and the Devil, a robust reframing of the legendary director\u2019s\u00a0Exorcist II: The Heretic, as strange and poetic as the disastrous 1977 production itself.\u201d Our friends at Bloody Disgusting<\/a>: \u201cBoorman and the Devil\u00a0is absolutely everything that you\u2019d want from an\u00a0Exorcist II\u00a0deep dive reclamation. Kittredge\u2019s thorough exploration of this title is evident, and compelling information is put together in an impressive, comprehensive package that avoids many of the standard talking head documentary pitfalls. It\u2019s also surprisingly funny.\u201d And Deadline<\/a>: \u201cThe fact no one has picked up this exceptional docu from director David Kittredge is baffling, leading me to think somehow it is cursed, much the same way the original Exorcist<\/a> was thought to be while in production. Not only is this docu entertaining, it is also a great primer on the film business, then and now, and is easily one of the best movies about the making \u2014 and unmaking \u2014 of a movie I have ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n Would you like to watch the Boorman and the Devil documentary? Let us know by leaving a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British filmmaker Sir John Boorman has made some great movies over the decades. His credits include Point Blank,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[4567,4569,77,170612,170613,177284,177285,177286,16211,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-554513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-aith","9":"tag-arrow-in-the-head","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-exorcist-ii-the-heretic","12":"tag-john-boorman","13":"tag-karyn-kusama","14":"tag-linda-blair","15":"tag-louise-fletcher","16":"tag-mike-flanagan","17":"tag-movies","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115506909424880608","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}