11 h. ago ‘Clearly the worst film ever made by anyone ever’: the story behind John Boorman’s horrific Exorcist sequel

After landmark flop The Heretic, the director was considering ‘immolating myself on Hollywood Boulevard’ in 1977. But a new documentary premiering at Venice calls for its redemption‘Evokes not terror but laughter.” “A movie for morons, a total cheesy rip-off that makes not one minute of coherent sense.” “The stupidest major movie ever made.” These were some of the milder responses from reviewers to Exorcist II: The Heretic, one of the most notorious disasters in Hollywood history, on its release in 1977. Its director, John Boorman, says he felt utterly humiliated and close to despair. “I considered my choices. The first was to commit suicide. The second was to defect to Russia,” the chastened director told one interviewer. He asked another if he could atone for his film by “immolating myself on Hollywood Boulevard”.What was the problem? Audiences had, most likely, been looking for shock and horror, revolving heads and vomit, but Boorman gave them metaphysics and surrealism instead –...

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11 h. ago ‘Clearly the worst film ever made by anyone ever’: inside John Boorman’s horrific Exorcist sequel

After landmark flop The Heretic, the director was considering ‘immolating myself on Hollywood Boulevard’ in 1977. But a new documentary premiering at Venice calls for its redemption‘Evokes not terror but laughter.” “A movie for morons, a total cheesy rip-off that makes not one minute of coherent sense.” “The stupidest major movie ever made.” These were some of the milder responses from reviewers to Exorcist II: The Heretic, one of the most notorious disasters in Hollywood history, on its release in 1977. Its director, John Boorman, says he felt utterly humiliated and close to despair. “I considered my choices. The first was to commit suicide. The second was to defect to Russia,” the chastened director told one interviewer. He asked another if he could atone for his film by “immolating myself on Hollywood Boulevard”.What was the problem? Audiences had, most likely, been looking for shock and horror, revolving heads and vomit, but Boorman gave them metaphysics and surrealism instead –...

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4 d. ago Venice Film Festival's worst dressed stars: Naomi Watts, Shailene Woodley and Laura Dern lead fashion flops on the red carpet as their statement and daring gowns fail to impress

This year's Venice Film Festival has attracted its usual array of A-listers, all dressed to the nines for the occasion. However, there were several stars who unfortunately seemed to miss the fashion mark.

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1 week ago Netflix film labelled 'worst of all time' as viewers spot major flaw with big stars

A Netflix film has been branded the 'worst film of all time' by furious viewers who say it stands out as one of the worst pieces of work for everyone involved, and it's still on the platform

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2 w. ago 'I watched the world's worst film on Amazon Prime – here's why I'll watch it again'

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Star's resident 'pain is fun' expert Adam Cailler sat down to watch the controversial new take on War of the Worlds to see just how bad it really is

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3 w. ago New War of the Worlds film named one of the 100 worst movies ever

The film achieved a zero per cent score on the review aggregator site

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3 w. ago 'Worst film EVER!' Why War of The Worlds is being hated on with ZERO per cent rating

Prime Video’s ‘dreadful’ new HG Wells reboot stars Ice Cube and Eva Longoria, and is being dragged through the mud

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3 w. ago 'Generationally bad' Amazon Prime Video thriller branded 'worst film of the year' by viewers

The film is an adaption of one of the world's most famous novels starring a rap legend

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4 w. ago The 10 most shocking dash cam crashes and dangerous driving incidents caught on camera in the past year

A montage of 10 videos showing incredibly careless and reckless driving - all captured in the last 12 months - have been exclusively shared with the Daily Mail.

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