Exorcist II: The Heretic is the best Exorcist Movie

[BCM]

Fuck you.

Edit: Pazuzu

Edited May 8, 2021 by BCM

[BCM]

what about this bit tho

 

[Cryptowen]

*motivational dad voice* never forget billy, you are the best exorcist movie. and don't let anyone tellya otherwise

[Dragon]

omen 2 is the best exorcism/possession film. best death scenes out of anything ever.

[auxien]

i remember liking it, but it is a bit ridiculous (but i mean also of course it is, it's a film about possession by demons so, ya know)

looking at a couple clips on YT i think the music was pretty strong too

[Silent Member]

I remember watching it as a teen and thinking it was really silly, haven't looked back. I watched all of the tv-series, I didn't fully hate it.

 

[dcom]

 

[jaderpansen]

it's a delightfully weird movie. enjoyably bad.

[ManjuShri]

On 5/9/2021 at 12:51 AM, BCM said:

Edit: Pazuzu

 

[Rubin Farr]

But Exorcist III had George C. Scott and Brad Dourif FFS. 

[TubularCorporation]

Exorcist III is amazing.

 

But we wouldn't have gotten that if William Peter Blatty hadn't been so angry about Exorcist II that he wrote a novel AND wrote a screenplay based on that novel AND directed the film of the screenplay, all specifically to retcon the second one out of existence.

 

The second one is great too, though.

[BCM]

yeah exorcist 3 is probably better really. i just like that hypnosis scene in 2.

[iococoi]

 

[TubularCorporation]

70s parapsychology stuff has such a great aesthetic, it's too bad everyone who believed in it ended up as antivaxers and Qanon followers.

[Himelstein]

I love the music in all the old horror movies. Especially by the band Goblin. Also the soundtrack to Troll is great- and it’s got Elaine and her real life husband in it, hahah.

But yeah.... Mike Oldfield.

Edited May 12, 2021 by Himelstein

[TubularCorporation]

Up until somewhere int he 80s when horror went mainstream, it (and to a somewhat lesser degree sci-fi) was the only film genre that had really cutting edge soundtracks.  The general rule of thumb is that film score is extremely conservative and typically lags 20-30 years behind (like, this is widely accepted enough that they literally taught us this in one of my film scoring courses in college), but for a while there horror was a rare exception.

 

The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre soundtrack, which is all musique concrete made from nothing but tape-manipulated recordings of chainsaws, is a great example of that.

Edited May 12, 2021 by TubularCorporation

[zkom]

 

[whosebrian]