The movie follows a young Father Merrin facing true evil for the first time in Africa in the wake of World War II. This is the tale of Father Merrin's initial battle with Pazuzu and the rediscovery of his faith.
18 June 1957, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
24 August 1975, London, England, UK
18 December 1995, Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
28 July 1929, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria
6 June 1971, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
13 June 1951, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
17 August 1970, London, England, UK
7 August 1958, Ware, Hertfordshire, England, UK
2 June 1931, Sivry-Rance, Wallonia, Belgium
23 February 1938, London, England, UK
1965, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
25 August 1966, Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
17 April 1942, York, Yorkshire, England, UK
16 December 1947, London, England, UK
4 June 1970, Bialystok, Podlaskie, Poland
January 01, 2011
Brutal. Not for kids.August 26, 2004
Blood, flies, maggots, ravenous hyenas, power failures, grave-digging and much ineffectual voodoo ensue.August 24, 2004
As shocking as an Dokken album cover and, finally, as pious as The Passion of the Christ.February 27, 2007
The serious Catholic themes that made the original film genuinely disturbing have been flattened out into a cartoonish backstory pitting Merrin against Nazi storm troopers.August 23, 2004
Never feels like anything other than generic, brain-dead, Dolby-jolt, multiplex hackwork -- I kept expecting Skarsgard's habitually catacomb-prowling Merrin to bump flashlights with Lara Croft.July 30, 2007
Most of the movie feels nothing like an Exorcist film.February 27, 2007
This is not horror. It's sadism.June 19, 2008
More than 30 years after the original hit screens, along comes the very best of the sequels.April 29, 2009
Contrived, cliché, murky, muddled, and an utterly gory mess...June 24, 2006
Reams of tedious exposition finally give way to a random jumble of horror movie clichés, rising to a shrill pitch of hysteria that is never remotely frightening.August 23, 2004
It rates fairly high on both the Scare-O-Meter and Gross-Out Scale, with an early hyena attack guaranteed to have you flinching in terror.