 
A
former priest named Father Lankester
Merrin (Stellan Skarsgård) is scarred
about the innocent people who perished in
the second world war as it haunts him by
evil forces as he continues to have
nightmares about the incident.
He travels away from his home in Holland
and travels to Cairo Egypt where he does
some archeology and a local there who is
a collector wants him to look for a relic
underneath a closed down church so he can
retrieve it before a group of British
people do.
However, outside when people are digging
for other hidden relic's a owrker has a
seisure and also encounters hyenas
scrounging the place.
When Merrin and the other explorers enter
the church they find paintings of Lucifer
and a huge upside down crucifix of Jesus.
When Merrin arrives home his own crucifix
on the wall is turned upside down plus he
looks at satanic sketch art he found at
the church which causes him to have
terrible memories. Then he almost looses
his mind, plus his clock on the wall
stops ticking.
A
young boy named Joseph (Remy Sweeney) is
being tormented by his older brother but
then hyenas break into their home and
kills his older brother by ripping him to
shreds while Joseph watches as he is
posessed by the demon Pazuzu.
Merrin
goes to an asylum to talk to a man named
Bession (Patrick O'Kane) as Bession knows
his name and then carves a symbol in his
chest then kills himself.
Merrin
tries to get a priest named Father
Francis (James D'Arcy) to perform an
exorcism on Joseph after encountering all
of this madness but Pazuzu really wants
the caretaker named Sarah (Izabella
Scorupco) as she entered the abandoned
church so Merrin must meet face to face
with this demon.
This was a prequel
top the first film on how the exorcism
caused by Pazuzu but however this seems a
little too unbelieveable for this to be a
prequel as the first film is in touch
with a more realistic going ons with a
posession.
However, there are still effective and
intense happenings as well as great
special effects so I rate it above
average.
There's alot of scenes in this film that
is similar to the first film however
which I really admired.
The acting is
terrifically performed by Stellan
Skarsgård as he is a great
character actor and he brings his
disturbing scenes to life too.
Child actor Remy Sweeney is
great performing a posessed victim
showing no expressions which made him
convincingly evil.
Izabella Scorupco also performs
nicely with her role as the caretaker of
the kids in Egypt.
Izabella
Scorupco's character shows it off.
The ladies get Stellan Skarsgard
drinking the nectar of life.
There are corpses
during a flashback sequence in the
beginning of this film
Lots of stabbings
A man carves a symbol in his chest and
gruseomely slits his throat
A baby is born dead during a flashback
sequence
Faces being slashed
Fingers broken backwards
Gruesome hung body
Human crucifixions
An eyeball being eaten by a bird
Blood coming out of a vagina
Lots of headshots
Slit throats and a kid being torn by
hyenas. Many more too.
Renny Harlin
seems to know what he is doing to make
this film adventurous but can't make it
as effective as Blatty's direction in the
first one.
However I still give this guy two thumbs
up.
He shows excellent effective scenes with
child actor Remy Sweeney when
the hynea's attack or when his body and
bed trembles in the hospital there.
He also directed Skarsgård and Scorupco
very well together proving that they have
terrific chemistry.
There are terrific shots in the church
showing the statue of Pazuzu like in the
original film and the battles between the
posessed victims in the church too.
Trevor Rabin
composed the music for the film with
additional music by Paul Linford
but it's not the same as the original
music however the classical music is very
strong and well done.
Sarah:
[possessed] What's the matter, Father?
Don't you wanna fuck me anymore?
Sarah:
[possessed] You want the whore, don't
you? You wanna stick your big round cock
up her juicy ass?
Sergeant
Major: God is not here today, priest!
Sarah:
This place... it's cursed.
Father
Francis: This is the spot where Lucifer
fell.
Father
Merrin: Everbody died... Who buried them?
Father
Merrin: It's not Mr. Merrin. It's Father
Merrin.
Father
Francis: You asked the question, now you
listen to the answer!
[last lines]
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