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The Exorcist Believer Movie Featurette - In Every Religion and Every Culture (2023) - US Release Date: October 13, 2023
Starring: Leslie Odom Jr., Lidya Jewett, Olivia Marcum
Director : David Gordon Green
Synopsis: 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 Marcum), 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.
Transcript
00:00 The Exorcist is universal. Possession happens all over the world.
00:06 I've grown up with a fascination of religions of all sorts, and this was an opportunity to explore possession through a variety of perspectives.
00:15 They wanted to make sure when they were portraying different communities of faith, that they were portraying it accurately.
00:23 The Exorcist is close to real experiences that people have had.
00:29 One of the oldest religious beliefs that we can find archaeologically are ancestral possession, ancestral spirits that visit you after death.
00:36 You would look to ancestors, you would look to spirits for guidance.
00:39 The fact that some of them could be malevolent is extraordinarily common.
00:43 Do you think they got possessed by the devil?
00:47 Possession, oppression, pagans and wiccans, we'll talk about energy attacks, a lot of focus on demons.
00:53 When I rested my hand upon her head, I felt nothing but pain.
00:58 Getting rid of them is exorcism.
01:00 Wherever those girls went, they brought something back with them.
01:03 There are rituals for it in every religion, in every culture.
01:08 You have some experience with possession.
01:10 Yes, more than I'd like.
01:12 Victor's put church and faith behind him. The other parents have faith, they have community.
01:18 I believe that's the way evil works, is to take you apart and to sow division.
01:23 If our children are possessed by the same entity and you think differently than I do, how do we work together?
01:28 Is that Catherine's heartbeat? They're breathing in sync.
01:31 One girl lives, one girl dies.
01:35 This movie is asking a lot about the power of suggestion, about faith.
01:41 God laid a trick on you.
01:50 God laid a trick on you.
01:53 God laid a trick on you.
01:56 God laid a trick on you.
02:00 God laid a trick on you.
02:03 God laid a trick on you.