LEGION

Rating:
Summary: Blatty's Exorcist 2 a passable sequel.
Review: William Peter Blatty's sequel to his own smasheroo success The Exoricst only shows how impossible it is to adequately follow up a knocked-out-of-the-ballpark pop culture influencing piece of work. Certainly the novel is intelligent and provokes thought, but the theology is nothing particularly new or interesting and the mixture of plots and sub-plots (involving apparently undead serial killers, brain tumors and/or traumas, as well as a fish in a bath tub) are convoluted and aggravating instead of intriguing and suspense building. Nonetheless Legion is one of the better (if not the best) of The Exorcist sequels and fans will no doubt want to take a look, just don't expect to be as deeply unsettled as you were the first time around and you probably won't be too disappointed.