Upon its release, the reviews for the film were horrible and scathing. It was one of the worst-reviewed movies ever. This can be see as ironic, as John Boorman deliberately toned down the gore and graphic sexual content of the first film, in favor of over the top Sci-fi imagery (plagues of locusts, and other phantasmagoria not in the first movie). The film was still critically panned. Whereas the first film received scathing reviews for how exploitative it was, for this film it was just that absence of exploitative content that was reviled. This is one of the more scathing criticisms of the film: "Exorcist II is demonstrably the worst film ever made. It took the greatest film ever made and trashed it in a way that was on one level farcically stupid and on another level absolutely unforgivable. Everyone involved in this, apart from Linda Blair, should be ashamed for all eternity." (Mark Kermode) On the other hand, it's possible that the absurdity of the story and the clearly uncomfortable performances by the cast were what the critics were objecting to, rather than the absence of gore.

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