The first trailer has dropped for David Gordon Green’s spine chilling horror The Exorcist: Believer – the first of a trilogy from Blumhouse – and it looks intense.
Before we go any further; yes, you guessed it, it’s yet another reboot – this time of the 1973 classic. However, 50 years on, it’s also a sequel, rather than a straight retelling of the original film, this time telling the story of two young girls becoming possessed by demonic entities.
Given the weight of the original, this film (or any film bearing The Exorcist name) has a lot to live up to. I remember hearing about people leaving cinemas, throwing up, crying… I believe my uncle had to get up and leave the cinema at the time.
It didn’t have that much of an effect on me, as I was maybe a bit older for my first watch. I was far more traumatised by xenomorphs!
The official synopsis reads:
Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding (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 (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.
One of the more exciting things about this film is that actress Ellen Burstyn is reprising her iconic role as Chris MacNeil for the first time since the original film in 1973: ”an actress who has been forever altered by what happened to her daughter Regan five decades before.”
The film also stars everyone’s favourite Aunt Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale, Hereditary) as Victor and Angela’s neighbour, along with Jennifer Nettles and Norbert Leo Butz as the parents of Angela’s friend, Katherine.
According to the press release:
When The Exorcist, based on the best-selling book by William Peter Blatty, was released, it changed the culture forever, obliterating box office records and earning 10 Academy Award® nominations, becoming the first horror film ever nominated for Best Picture.
David Gordon Green is in the director’s seat for this one, and he also wrote the screenplay with Peter Sattler (known for Camp X-Ray).
The Exorcist: Believer will be released in cinemas on October 13th. Will you be watching?
Source: GeekTyrant
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