Pazuzu

 

Merrin vs Pazuzu - Exorcist II - the Heretic (eerie scenes) 

 

The very demon who possessed 12-year-old Regan MacNeil in Washington D.C.! 

 

Pazuzu, the king of the evil spirits of the air. 

Priest Merrin had to deal with him, and now so does Priest Lamont. 

In this terrifying and chilling sequel...

that explains who it was that haunted the MacNeils in the first movie. 

 

Pauline Kael greatly preferred 

Boorman's sequel to the original, 

writing in her review in 

The New Yorker that Exorcist II 

"had more visual magic than a dozen movies." 

 

Kim Newman commented that "Exorcist II doesn't work in all sorts of ways... However, like Ennio Morricone's mix of tribal and liturgical music, it does manage to be very interesting." 

 

Director Martin Scorsese asserted,  

"The picture asks: 

Does great goodness bring upon itself great evil?  

This goes back to the Book of Job; 

it's God testing the good. 

In this sense, Regan (Linda Blair) is a modern-day saint — 

like Ingrid Bergman in Europa '51, 

and in a way, like Charlie in Mean Streets. 

I like the first Exorcist, because of the Catholic guilt I have, 

and because it scared the hell out of me; 

but The Heretic surpasses it. The movie deserved better than it got."