The most terrifying movie ever made, The Exorcist, came out 50 years ago this Fall. It shocked and appalled audiences across the world, leading to one of the highest box-office grosses for a horror movie. Now, on October 6th, 2023, we get a new chapter to that story. Blumhouse and director David Gordon Green bring us The Exorcist: Believer.

If you don’t know the story of the film, here’s a 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 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.

As for the featurette, it gives us the best look into what they’re going for with this movie. It’s got all the hallmarks of a terrifying possession movie, we’ll have to see how it fares when it releases on October 6th.

So, are you excited to see The Exorcist: Believer?

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