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The Exorcist: Believer

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The Exorcist: Believer

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Single parent Victor Fielding raises his daughter Angela, 13 years after the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake. He is alarmed when Angela and her friend Katherine vanish in the woods and return three days later with no memory of their ordeal. A shocking chain of events convinces Victor that his daughter's soul is at stake and he calls upon Chris MacNeil to help him confront an ancient evil. Horror thriller, starring Leslie Odom Jr and Ellen Burstyn, reprising her role from 1973's The Exorcist

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Jeremy Aspinall

With a watchable reboot of Halloween already under his belt, director David Gordon Green turns to another landmark horror with this well-meaning sequel. Taking his lead from William Friedkin's iconic 1973 film, Green ignores previous sequels and the TV show, focusing on the lives of widower Victor Fielding (Leslie Odom Jr) and his 13-year-old daughter in suburban Georgia. When she and her best friend go missing, only to reappear with diabolical personalities, a familiar pattern emerges that compels believers and sceptics alike to seek a supernatural solution. Green peppers proceedings with visual cues and Easter-egg nods to the original film, not least when a refrain from Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells announces the return of Ellen Burstyn as Chris MacNeil. Doubling the demonic evil with a pair of ethnically diverse, obscenity-spewing teenagers should have increased the shocks, but this occasionally jump-scary homage fails to break any new ground. Instead, it feels as if it has come too late, arriving in the wake of countless franchises (The Conjuring, Insidious) that have already bled Friedkin's classic dry.

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Cast

rolenameVictor FieldingLeslie Odom JrChris MacNeilEllen BurstynAnnAnn DowdMirandaJennifer NettlesKatherineOlivia O'NeillAngela FieldingLidya Jewett TonyNorbert Leo ButzPastor RevansRaphael SbargeFather MaddoxE J Bonilla

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rolenameDirectorDavid Gordon Green

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Theatrical distributor

Universal

Released on

2023-10-06

Languages

English | Latin | French | Haitian Creole

Guidance

Violence, swearing

Formats

Colour

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