AHC: Make Exorcist II Good

Make it something other than the original exorcism reworked as a psychological procedure. Have the real demon possess someone else, maybe in a different country, with totally new situations and characters. Rather than just giving everyone a milquetoast version of the first story.

And FWIW, while I'm a pretty big admirer of the first film, I think EXORCIST III had the freakiest imagery, specifically the camera zooming in on the headless statue and the killer running through the hospital room. Granted, the monologue scene where Pazuzu is revealed to be a steroetypically mincing old theatre queen, rambling on about "showmanship" to a near-comatose George C. Scott, could have been omitted with no harm done to the overall film.
 
The Exorcist 2 is just a bad movie. It needs a way better script for starters. There's some neat ideas there about the fallout of the original but it's handled fairly poorly and has a whiff of 'movie by committee'. It's just a victim of the original's success and a director who didn't have an overly clear plan of what he was trying to achieve with a pretty crappy script.

Tl;dr- needs a better scrpit, more focused direction
 
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