Exorcist II: The Heretic Exorcist II: The Heretic Exorcist II: The Heretic is a 1977 American horror film directed by John Boorman and written by William Goodhart. It stars Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow, Kitty Winn, Paul Henreid and James Earl Jones. It is a sequel to William Friedkin's 1973 film "The Exorcist" based on the 1971 novel by William Peter Blatty and the second installment of "The Exorcist" franchise. The film is set four years after the original film and centers on the now 16-year-old Regan MacNeil, who is still recovering from her previous demonic possession. The film was
The Exorcist (Turkish for "Satan"; the original film was also shown with the same name), is an almost scene-for-scene remake of the original. The same year in Germany, the exorcism-themed film "Magdalena, vom Teufel besessen" was released. In 1975, Britain released "The Devil Within Her" (also called "I Don't Want to Be Born") with Joan Collins as an exotic dancer who gives birth to a demon-possessed child. In 1987, Warner Brothers released an animated short starring Daffy Duck, entitled "Duxorcist" which was a parody of "Exorcist", where a group of spirits possess a female duck, and Daffy does succeed in getting them