The Exorcist: Believer

  • Ellen Burstyn, Leslie Odom Jr.
  • David Gordon Green
  • October 6th 2023
Sequel to the 1973 film about a 12-year-old girl who is possessed by a mysterious demonic entity, forcing her mother to seek the help of two priests to save her.

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The Exorcist: Believer

Verdict: This average horror reboot fails to recapture what made the landmark original so special

  • Ellen Burstyn, Leslie Odom Jr.
  • October 6th 2023
  • David Gordon Green

Two young girls are possessed by an evil spirit and only Chris MacNeil knows how to help them.

After rebooting the Halloween franchise with a fresh trilogy, director David Gordon Green has decided to do the same with The Exorcist.

This supernatural thriller, which is a direct sequel to the 1973 original, focuses on single parent Victor (Leslie Odom Jr.), whose teenage daughter Angela (Lidya Jewett) goes missing in the woods with her friend Katherine (Olivia Marcum).

They emerge 30 miles away from home three days later and it is clear that something is very wrong with them.

The girls have been possessed by an evil spirit and need help to be freed from it. Enter Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn), whose daughter Regan was possessed in the original movie.

William Friedkin’s The Exorcist was a shocking film and a game-changer for the horror genre when it was released in 1973.

It is a landmark movie that stills hold up and remains the benchmark for demon possession stories, which have been done to death (pun intended) over...

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