Friday, July 8, 1977 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five TH.IHIA.AIYPreFv Cinematic heresy By OWEN GLEIBERMAN sy [F ONE WERE TO pass judgment on The Exor- cist, it would probably be that it was essentially a trashy piece of entertainment, playing on pure sensationalism. Still, one can look at its good V side and regard it as an extremely well-told mo- dern horror tale, laboriously constructed in a do- cumentary-like style that implies that what hap- + pened to Regan MacNeill could happen to any of us. And in general, The Exorcist succeeded in ef- fectively stirring up the most hardened of view- ers. Exorcist II: The leretic is certainly no less trashy in concept than its predecessor, it is even" more so. However the real difference between the two pictures lies not in concept, but in execution; - Exorcist II: The Heretic is devoid of any scare tactics (more often it is laughable) and is quitep simply a failure from beginning to end. Burton The plot is extremely vague; the demon doesn't exactly re-enter Linda Blair in the manner of part long amount of time, accentuated by th one, it sort of enters her subconscious. This vague beep-beeping of the machine. In addition device proves it was obvious that the people res- the wh6le idea of such a machine is tota ponsible for the film were literally scraping ntoput crous; this film abounds in things that together a plot, and what they came up with is a supernatural, but are even more preposte poor excuse for a movie. cause they are supposed to be real. THE FILM IS unbelievably poorly put together; The film is interspersed with flashb there is absolutely no natural dramatic flow of somewhere in Africa, where Pazuzzu, events, rather it is more a case of ideas being mon's name) displays itself in the form of thrown in almost randomly. Director John Boor- These sequences are, for some reason, h man seems to have no idea of how long a se- ally stagey, but whatever effect Boorman quence should be sustained. ing to achieve, the backdrop of yellow In a scene near the beginning, Regan, her psy- doesn't make it. chiatrist (Louise Fletcher), and a priest (Richard The climax (back in the house wherel Burton) who is out to investigate what happened took place) is a poor, poor attempt to res during the exorcism of the first picture, all hook frenzied esorcism of part one, and it cc up to some gadget that is able to connect two generating as much excitement as an: people's minds. The scene lasts an excruciatingly made disaster epicof the last few years. Records in Brief HEART'S NEW ALBUM, Lit- tle Queen (Portrait JR 34799) takes up right where their pre- vious one, Dreamboat Annie left off. The group continues to offei a pleasant variety of rock tunes; from songs featuring Roger Fisher's light heavy- mec