As much as moviegoers love to get behind a box office smash, keeping the buzz alive and pumping up ticket sales, they can also display real schadenfreude when it comes to Hollywood disasters. Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate, Kevin Costner’s Waterworld, Disney’s John Carter and, well, Cats, are a few major flops that audiences seemed to delight in, even if most people never saw the films themselves. Despite rumors, some of those movies actually made their money back. And in the case of Cimino’s epic western, the film was deemed a masterpiece decades after it came out.
This is unlikely to happen with Exorcist II: The Heretic, the much-anticipated follow-up to William Friedkin’s horror classic that turned out to be a colossal studio misfire. Laughed off the screen when it was released in the summer of 1977 — the same summer that saw Star Wars change the blockbuster…
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