The Guardian (1990) - Newspaper Ad

Oakland Tribune - April 27, 1990

As entertaining a raconteur as the late William Friedkin was, The Guardian reveals his amusing hurling of verbal brickbats at John Boorman's Exorcist II The Heretic were being thrown from the porch of a fragile glass house.

Because The Guardian stinks. It is a movie that serves as a great of example of "just because I suspend my disbelief does not mean you can insult my intelligence." I walked out of an opening day matinee screening mad as hell at this movie. I hated it.

When it came out on home video I think I gave it a second chance. At least I have a fuzzy memory of giving it second chance. Or maybe I just want to see the scene where the tree kills a trio of miscreants.

No matter, though. It still stunk and was just as insulting to the intelligence as when I sat through it at the Kabuki Theatre in San Francisco, on April 27, 1990.