It’s four years later… what does she remember? Can a Vatican investigator (Richard Burton) and a psychiatric specialist (Louise Fletcher) unlock the secrets of Regan’s demonic ordeal? Linda Blair returns in Zardoz director John Boorman’s visually striking, freaked out follow-up to William Friedkin’s horror masterpiece. Filmmaker Martin Scorsese once asserted, “I like the first Exorcist … but The Heretic surpasses it.”
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