10 Most Disappointing Horror Movie Sequels
1. Exorcist II: The Heretic
I still can’t wrap my head around the fact this film exists.
William Peter Blatty (the author of The Exorcist book and producer of the first film alongside director William Friedkin) said that upon watching the film's screening, he began to laugh!
When a horror film as legendary, and damn near perfect, as The Exorcist exists, any sequel is going to have huge boots to fill. It didn’t have to be that bad though. Any hopes that viewers had for the film, upon seeing the return of Linda Blair in her role as Reagan MacNeil, were quickly dashed.
There’s a weird POV shot of a locust flying about, there’s time travel, there’s hypnosis and 16 year old Regan appears as a succubus (which is very ew). Similarly to the other films on this list, it took everything great about the film it followed, threw it out the window, spat on it then body slammed it.
Purge this evil spirit from the Exorcist legacy.