Boorman and the Devil

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Filmmaker John Boorman seizes the opportunity to direct "Exorcist II: The Heretic," but the movie's disappointing reception from critics and fans nearly ends his career. Includes interviews with Boorman and actresses Linda Blair and Louise Fletcher.

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A fascinating, candid testament to the passionate excesses of 1970s filmmaking, Boorman and the Devil delivers a lively and funny autopsy of one of Hollywood's most infamous failures.

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David Hughes

Time Out

12 hrs ago

5/5

Kittredge’s film comes neither to bury The Exorcist II: The Heretic nor to praise it. It allows Boorman to exorcise his own demons about the film... But it offers the audience so much more: a fascinating, funny and fully riveting film.

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

Sep 8, 2026

The goal of a vibrant autopsy like this, after all, isn’t to reclaim a terrible movie as secretly great — even if the likes of Joe Dante, Karyn Kusama and some established film critics make a case to sample its madness.

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William Bibbiani

TheWrap

Aug 28, 2026

'Boorman and the Devil' doesn’t redeem 'Exorcist II: The Heretic'; it speaks about the film openly and honestly, flaws and victories alike, making this documentary infinitely more complete than other, fawning retrospectives about other, better movies.

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Edwin Arnaudin

Asheville Movies

4 hrs ago

B+

A legitimate accomplishment.

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Robin Clifford

Reeling Reviews

10 hrs ago

A-

The telling of the story of the making "The Exorcist II: The Heretic," and the debacle it was for John Boorman, is far more interesting than "E II."

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Rick Hong

Film Threat

2 days ago

10/10

I truly believe Boorman gave us the best version of the King Arthur story that cinema has seen, and I loved that Kittredge found room to reference it in this documentary.

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Michael S

@RT91783922 Sep 6, 2026

Since I was a child, I've loved "making of" documentaries. But "Boorman and the Devil" is much more than a mere "making of." It's an autopsy—no, a forensic autopsy—on what many regard one of the greatest major film production disasters in history: "Exorcist II: The Heretic." More than that, though, it's simultaneously a kind of whodunnit, a cautionary tale, and a tour of the inner workings of this complex amusement park called the film industry in the 1970s. I was "in" within the first five minutes of the film as the narrative began to slowly work out the who, what, where, when, and why of that masterpiece of film flops, "Exorcist II." This is the documentary film you didn't know you had to see, and now that you know, you have to see it.

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Synopsis

Filmmaker John Boorman seizes the opportunity to direct "Exorcist II: The Heretic," but the movie's disappointing reception from critics and fans nearly ends his career. Includes interviews with Boorman and actresses Linda Blair and Louise Fletcher.

Director: David Kittredge
Producer: Jim Fall, David Kittredge, Travis Stevens
Screenwriter: David Kittredge
Distributor: Yellow Veil Pictures
Production Co: Snowfort Pictures, Milton Ventures Media
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 28, 2026, Limited
Runtime: 1h 52m

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