{"id":2000803,"date":"2025-09-06T01:16:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2000803"},"modified":"2025-09-06T01:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:16:18","slug":"boorman-and-the-devil-review-an-enjoyably-exhaustive-doc-chronicles-the-making-of-exorcist-ii-the-heretic-one-of-hollywoods-most-despised-sequels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/boorman-and-the-devil-review-an-enjoyably-exhaustive-doc-chronicles-the-making-of-exorcist-ii-the-heretic-one-of-hollywoods-most-despised-sequels\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Boorman and the Devil\u2019 Review: An Enjoyably Exhaustive Doc Chronicles the Making of \u2018Exorcist II: The Heretic,\u2019 One of Hollywood\u2019s Most Despised Sequels"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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<\/a>\u2019s Heaven\u2019s Gate<\/a>, Kevin Costner<\/a>\u2019s Waterworld<\/a>, Disney\u2019s John Carter<\/a> and, well, Cats<\/a>, 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<\/a>\u2019s epic western, the film was deemed a masterpiece decades after it came out.<\/p>\n

This is unlikely to happen with Exorcist II: The Heretic<\/a>, the much-anticipated follow-up to William Friedkin<\/a>\u2019s horror classic that turned out to be a colossal studio misfire. Laughed off the screen when it was released in the summer of 1977 \u2014 the same summer that saw Star Wars change the blockbuster…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s Heaven\u2019s Gate, Kevin Costner\u2019s Waterworld, Disney\u2019s John Carter and, well, Cats, are a few major flops that audiences seemed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2000803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Boorman-and-the-Devil-Review-An-Enjoyably-Exhaustive-Doc-Chronicles.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}