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- Boorman was denounced by William Peter Blatty, the author of the original novel The Exorcist, and by William Friedkin, director of the first Exorcist film. Boorman later admitted that his approach to the film was a mistake. The Heretic is often considered not just the worst film of The Exorcist series but one of the worst films of all time.
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Oct 17, 2023 · The shock of a child defiling a crucifix in The Exorcist (1973) did nothing to prepare audiences for the horror John Boorman dreamed up for the sequel; a film “about goodness.”
Oct 21, 2014 · And that was a mistake. “Millions of people had enjoyed watching a child being tortured in The Exorcist,” wrote Boorman in his autobiography Adventures of a Suburban Boy.
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Boorman was denounced by William Peter Blatty, the author of the original novel The Exorcist, and by William Friedkin, director of the first Exorcist film. Boorman later admitted that his approach to the film was a mistake.
Feb 22, 2024 · “Boorman did not think that The Exorcist was a healthy film,” continues Kittredge. “He [Boorman] felt that The Exorcist was well made, but he didn’t leave feeling elevated the way you would with art.
- Brendan Haley
I'd say a big problem with "Exorcist II" is that Boorman openly admitted he hated the first "Exorcist" and wanted something more "uplifting." If you want a good sequel to a massively successful original, kind of helps to hire something who actually, you know, liked the source material.
Oct 31, 2016 · This is the position Academy Award® nominated filmmaker John Boorman found himself in when he made Exorcist II: The Heretic, a movie that not only takes a left turn from William Friedkin’s 1973 masterpiece The Exorcist, but directly challenges it.
John Boorman bounced back from the ordeal of two perceived failures in a row with EXCALIBUR in 1981, a film that like all his work gets better over time. The film had a more consistent and convincing tone, mood,and vision, perhaps learning from the mistakes made by EXORCIST II.
