THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER Director Breaks Down the Latest Trailer in New Video
A horrifying new trailer for The Exorcist: Believer recently debuted, and horror fans seem pretty excited about this movie. I’m mostly curious to see if the movie will deliver the same level of petrifying fear as the original film did.
Fandango has released a new video tied to the movie that features director David Gordon Green breaking down the trailer and offering some additional interesting insight into the movie.
Gordon Green talks about the return of Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair’s role in the production as a consultant. He also offers insight on the film’s makeup effects, themes, and use of the iconic tune.
It’s explained that The Exorcist: Believer centers on the idea of what Gordon Green calls “synchronized possessions,” and he also says it’s about both “community” and “life-changing choices.”
This next chapter of the story tells the terrifying tale of the demonic possession of two young girls who become possessed at the same time. It looks like this is going to deliver some spine-chilling terror that horror fans are going to love.
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.
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.
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.”
The movie will possess theaters on October 13th.