"One of the craziest films ever released by a major studio, a semi-coherent Grand Guignol romp involving telekinesis, James Earl Jones in a bee costume, and an airborne demon named "Pazuzu"... Exorcist II: The Heretic certainly has its defenders, chief among them Martin Scorsese, Pauline Kael, and Keith Phipps. Scorsese preferred it to The Exorcist while Pauline Kael gushed that it "had more visual magic than a dozen movies," which is true only if those movies were directed by Uwe Boll or shot on grandma's video camera." - Nathan Rabin, The Onion A.V. Club