The Exorcist: Believer
Only in Theaters Friday
Exactly 50 years ago this fall, the most terrifying horror film in history landed on screens, shocking audiences around the world. Now, on Friday, October 13, a new chapter begins. From Blumhouse and director David Gordon Green, who shattered the status quo with their resurrection of the Halloween franchise, comes The Exorcist: Believer.
Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding (Tony winner and Oscar® nominee Leslie Odom, Jr.; One Night in Miami, Hamilton) has raised their daughter, Angela (Lidya Jewett, Good Girls) on his own.
But when Angela and her friend Katherine (newcomer Olivia O’Neill), disappear in the woods, only to return three days later with no memory of what happened to them, it unleashes a chain of events that will force Victor to confront the nadir of evil and, in his terror and desperation, seek out the only person alive who has witnessed anything like it before: Chris MacNeil.
For the first time since the 1973 film, Oscar® winner Ellen Burstyn reprises her iconic role as Chris MacNeil, an actress who has been forever altered by what happened to her daughter Regan five decades before.
The film also stars Emmy winner Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale, Hereditary) as Victor and Angela’s neighbor, and Grammy winner Jennifer Nettles (Harriet, The Righteous Gemstones) and two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz (Fosse/Verdon, Bloodline) as the parents of Katherine, Angela’s friend.
Only in Theaters Friday
Exactly 50 years ago this fall, the most terrifying horror film in history landed on screens, shocking audiences around the world. Now, on Friday, October 13, a new chapter begins. From Blumhouse and director David Gordon Green, who shattered the status quo with their resurrection of the Halloween franchise, comes The Exorcist: Believer.
Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding (Tony winner and Oscar® nominee Leslie Odom, Jr.; One Night in Miami, Hamilton) has raised their daughter, Angela (Lidya Jewett, Good Girls) on his own.
But when Angela and her friend Katherine (newcomer Olivia O’Neill), disappear in the woods, only to return three days later with no memory of what happened to them, it unleashes a chain of events that will force Victor to confront the nadir of evil and, in his terror and desperation, seek out the only person alive who has witnessed anything like it before: Chris MacNeil.
For the first time since the 1973 film, Oscar® winner Ellen Burstyn reprises her iconic role as Chris MacNeil, an actress who has been forever altered by what happened to her daughter Regan five decades before.
The film also stars Emmy winner Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale, Hereditary) as Victor and Angela’s neighbor, and Grammy winner Jennifer Nettles (Harriet, The Righteous Gemstones) and two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz (Fosse/Verdon, Bloodline) as the parents of Katherine, Angela’s friend.
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00:00 The exorcist is universal.
00:02 Possession happens all over the world.
00:05 I've grown up with a fascination of religions of all sorts,
00:09 and this was an opportunity to explore possession
00:12 through a variety of perspectives.
00:16 They wanted to make sure when they were portraying
00:18 different communities of faith that they
00:20 were portraying it accurately.
00:24 The exorcist is close to real experiences
00:27 that people have had.
00:28 One of the oldest religious beliefs
00:29 that we can find archaeologically
00:31 are ancestral possession, ancestral spirits
00:33 that visit you after death.
00:35 You would look to ancestors.
00:36 You would look to spirits for guidance.
00:38 The fact that some of them could be malevolent
00:40 is extraordinarily common.
00:43 Do you think they got possessed by the devil?
00:46 Possession, oppression, pagans and wiccans.
00:49 We'll talk about energy attacks, a lot of focus on demons.
00:52 When I rested my hand upon her head, I felt nothing but pain.
00:57 Getting rid of them is exorcism.
00:59 Wherever those girls went, they brought something back with them.
01:02 There are rituals for it in every religion,
01:06 in every culture.
01:07 You have some experience with possession.
01:09 Yes, more than I'd like.
01:12 Victor's put church and faith behind him.
01:15 The other parents have faith.
01:16 They have community.
01:17 I believe that's the way evil works, is to take you
01:20 apart and to sow division.
01:22 If our children are possessed by the same entity
01:24 and you think differently than I do, how do we work together?
01:27 Is that Catherine's heartbeat?
01:29 They're breathing in sync.
01:31 One girl lives, one girl dies.
01:34 This movie is asking a lot about the power of suggestion,
01:39 about faith.
01:40 God laid a trick on you.
01:48 (upbeat music)
01:51 (bells chiming)