![]() ![]() ![]() But Blatty delays the revelation of this simple yet murky plot by giving us: Jewish comedy chez Kinderman Dr. but he's inside the body of the late, lamented Father Damien Karras, the exorcist himself!! Could it be that all the victims have some connection to The Exorcist? And are these murders (committed by some sort of neurological remote control) all part of a Satanic vengeance scheme? (""Certain parties were not pleased, to say the least,"" chirps the loquacious Mr. ![]() Sunlight""-who seems to be the Gemini killer. ![]() And then Kinderman comes face to face with a straitjacketed hospital inmate called ""Mr. Who is the culprit? Well, the killer's modus operandi happens to be exactly the same as that of the ""Gemini"" killer-a San Francisco psycho who was killed in '71 after 26 murder/mutilations! On the other hand, some evidence points to the severely disturbed patients in a Washington neurology ward, and to neurologist Vincent Amfortas, who's been hearing voices and behaving oddly ever since his beloved wife died of meningitis. murders is tormenting aging, Jewish, Yiddish-sardonic cop Kinderman: a twelve-year-old black newsboy is crucified a priest is decapitated another priest, Kinderman's chum Dyer, has all his blood drained out of him. the Devil (or something) again-but, while The Exorcist delivered vivid characters and wham-bang melodrama along with the sensationalism, this sequel pads out the gore with verbose philosophizing and pretentious quasi-theology. ![]()
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