The Making of THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER and the Story It Tells Is Explored in New Featurette
A new behind-the-scenes featurette has been released for director David Gordon Green’s The Exorcist: Believer. It gives us a look at the making of the horror movie and the story that it tells through interviews with the cast along with some new footage.
The promo also spotlights Ellen Burstyn’s return to the franchise after fifty years, and there is additional insight offered by the director and how he wanted this movie to “creep under your skin and get ya.” He also talks about the characters that this story follows and the horrific demonic journey that they find themselves on.
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.
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 will be released in theaters on October 6th.