Precisely 50 years in the past this fall, essentially the most terrifying horror movie in historical past landed on screens, surprising audiences world wide. From Blumhouse and director David Gordon Inexperienced, who shattered the established order with their resurrection of the Halloween franchise, comes The Exorcist: Believer. Because the loss of life of his pregnant spouse in a Haitian earthquake 12 years in the past, Victor Fielding (Tony winner and Oscar® nominee Leslie Odom, Jr.; One Evening in Miami, Hamilton) has raised their daughter, Angela (Lidya Jewett, Good Ladies) on his personal. However when Angela and her buddy Katherine (newcomer Olivia O’Neill), disappear within the woods, solely to return three days later with no reminiscence of what occurred to them, it unleashes a series of occasions that can drive Victor to confront the nadir of evil and, in his terror and desperation, search out the one particular person alive who has witnessed something prefer it earlier than: Chris MacNeil. For the primary time because the 1973 movie, Oscar® winner Ellen Burstyn reprises her iconic position as Chris MacNeil, an actress who has been endlessly altered by what occurred to her daughter Regan 5 many years earlier than.

The movie additionally stars Emmy winner Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Story, Hereditary) as Victor and Angela’s neighbor, and Grammy winner Jennifer Nettles (Harriet, The Righteous Gems) and two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz (Fosse/Verdon, Bloodline) because the mother and father of Katherine, Angela’s buddy. When The Exorcist, primarily based on the best-selling guide by William Peter Blatty, was launched, it modified the tradition endlessly, obliterating field workplace data and incomes 10 Academy Award® nominations, changing into the primary horror movie ever nominated for Finest Image.The Exorcist: Believer is directed by David Gordon Inexperienced from a screenplay by Peter Sattler (Camp X-Ray) and David Gordon Inexperienced, from a narrative by Scott Teems (Halloween Kills), Danny McBride (Halloween trilogy) and David Gordon Inexperienced, primarily based on characters created by William Peter Blatty.