New Promo Video For THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER Tries To Put a More Positive Spin on The Demonic Story
A new promo video has been released for The Exorcist: Believer, and while this movie is going to tell an incredibly dark and demonic story of two young girls possessed by Satan, this video features the cast and crew trying to give the movie a more positive spin.
It’s explained that the movie is “about different people with different beliefs coming together.” They say that it’s a story about “the power of love in the face of spiritual obstacles.” It’s also about the “love of a father and a daughter,” and they also talk about the importance of representation in the story.
Now that’s all fine and dandy, but the core of this story is about the horrors of Satan and the terrifying possession of two girls, and uh… that’s why horror movie fans are going to go see it. Sure, the power of love and family helps strengthen the story, but this is a horror film.
This horrific journey begins when the two girls go out into the woods in an attempt to talk to the dead. You see, a mom of one of the girls passed away and she wanted to talk to her.
Here’s the synopsis for the film:
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.
This film is the first of a trilogy coming from Blumhouse and Halloween director David Gordon Green. The franchise also sees the return of Ellen Burstyn as Chris MacNeil, ”an actress who has been forever altered by what happened to her daughter Regan five decades before.”
The film also stars Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale, Hereditary) as Victor and Angela’s neighbor, and Jennifer Nettles (Harriet, The Righteous Gemstones) and Norbert Leo Butz (Fosse/Verdon, Bloodline) as the parents of Katherine, Angela’s friend.
David Gordon Green wrote the screenplay with Peter Sattler (Camp X-Ray). The story comes from Scott Teems (Halloween Kills), Danny McBride (Halloween Trilogy) and Green, based on characters created by William Peter Blatty.
The movie is set to be released in theaters on Friday, October 6th.