The Exorcist: Believer(2023)

Name: The Exorcist: Believer
Director: David Gordon Green
Genre: Horror
Released: Oct 6, 2023
Cast: Lafortune Joseph, Leslie Odom Jr., Gastner Legerme, Tracey Graves, Marie Michelle Bazile

Universal Pictures

R
Rated R for some violent content, disturbing images, language and sexual references.
1h 51m
- Horror

Release Date: Oct 6, 2023 | Wide

When two girls disappear into the woods and return three days later with no memory of what happened to them, the father of one girl seeks out Chris MacNeil, who's been forever altered by what happened to her daughter fifty years ago.

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Original Release | Oct 6, 2023

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Director & Top Cast

David Gordon Green
Director

Lafortune Joseph
Fisherman #1

Leslie Odom Jr.
Victor Fielding

Gastner Legerme
Fisherman #2

Tracey Graves
Sorenne Fielding

Marie Michelle Bazile
Craftsperson

Rodrigue Lucien Louissaint

Mirror Salesman

Albert Wollf II Saint Felix Nolasco

Young Boy in Haiti

Viergeue Charles

Spiritual Reader

Prince Jayden Constant Felix

Kid at the Beach

Jake Arsene Joseph

Kid at the Beach

Yomayli Joseph Louisimus

Kid at the Beach

Dieunanne Hercule

Mother Crying

Eliseo Antonio Paredes

Haitian Doctor

Gardy Helve

Haitian Doctor

Lidya Jewett

Angela Fielding

Danny McCarthy

Stuart

Ann Dowd

Ann

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: Auro 11.1,12-Track Digital Sound,D-Cinema 96kHz 7.1,Dolby Atmos,Dolby Digital

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English,Latin,Haitian,French

Summaries

Plot Summary

In Haiti, photographer Victor Fielding and his pregnant wife Sorenne, blessed by a voodoo practitioner, are on their honeymoon until a massive earthquake ensues. Sorenne is gravely injured, and paramedics tell Victor he must choose to save either his wife or child.Thirteen years later, Victor has lost faith in God since Sorenne's death, and raises his daughter Angela by himself in Georgia. One day after school, Angela ventures into the woods with her Baptist best friend Katherine West to perform a séance, attempting to contact Angela's mother. The girls go missing and a three-day manhunt ensues.The girls are found in a barn on the third day; though traumatized, they seem relatively normal, having suffered only burns to their feet. The next day at home, Angela attacks Victor and begins convulsing, while Katherine has an outburst during a church service where the sacrament of Holy Communion is celebrated. Victor admits Angela into the hospital where their nurse neighbor Ann attends to her. Katherine's mother, Miranda, begins to theorize that the girls traveled to Hell and brought a demon back with them.The girls' conditions worsen. Ann, convinced that Angela is possessed after the latter reveals knowledge of Ann's experience in the novitiate as a prospective nun and her secret abortion, gives Victor a memoir written by Chris MacNeil, who experienced a similar situation with her daughter Regan in 1973.[a] Chris has spent her life researching exorcisms in every culture, becoming world-renowned for her studies. Regan became distant from her mother due to the memoir's success and has not seen her since. Victor meets with Chris, who visits Angela. Visiting Katherine's home, Chris performs a deliverance ritual on Katherine, who stabs Chris in the eyes with a cross, blinding her.Victor, Miranda, Ann, and Katherine's father Tony reach out to the Church for an exorcism. Chris advises Victor to use methods from all different cultures, and the group seeks the help of Father Maddox, a local priest; Don Revans, the West family's Baptist pastor; Stuart, a Pentecostal preacher; and Dr. Beehibe, a rootwork healer. The group plans an ecumenical exorcism, but the local Catholic diocese forbids Maddox from participating as they feel the children are suffering from a psychiatric disorder.The girls are tied to chairs as the group proceeds with the exorcism. Ann uses a crucifix with the Saint Benedict Medal engraved on it to battle the demon. The demon reveals that Victor did not choose to keep Angela alive thirteen years ago; he chose Sorenne but she died from her injuries. As Ann reads from the biblical text of Ezekiel 16 while holy water is poured on the children, the demon begins to shriek.The demon says they need to choose which of the girls gets to live and which one will die, and if a choice is not made, it will kill them both. While Miranda and Victor both refuse to forsake each other's child, Maddox, who has a change of heart, rejoins the group. Maddox reads from the Roman Ritual, only for the demon to telekinetically snap his neck and kill him. Victor regains his faith and begins to pray the Lord's Prayer, which he learned as a child. As Victor apologizes to Angela and uses Sorenne's scarf to attempt to strengthen her against the demon, Tony yells that he chooses to save Katherine, and Angela flatlines.Suddenly, Katherine wakes up in another realm and screams for her parents as the demon "chooses" her, revealing the one that was chosen would be the one who dies. The demon drags Katherine to Hell, while Angela starts to breathe. Police arrive as Miranda and Tony fail to resuscitate Katherine, while Victor tearfully reunites with his daughter.In the aftermath, Angela returns to school, Miranda and Tony mourn, and Victor visits Sorenne's grave. In the hospital, Chris is reunited with Regan, who forgives her mother.

Storyline

When single father Victor Fielding's daughter, Angela, and her friend Katherine, show signs of demonic possession, it unleashes a chain of events that forces him to confront the nature of evil. Terrified and desperate, he seeks out Chris MacNeil, the only person alive who's witnessed anything like it before. With youthful ignorance and ardent longing for connection with the unknown inviting evil's suffocating grasp, unprotected schoolgirls Angela and Katherine return home changed. As a result, their mental and physical health mysteriously deteriorate in parallel, baffling logic and challenging faith. Suddenly, demonic possession enters the equation, further confusing their parents. But there's no denying that something wicked has latched onto the vanished girls. After all, others have witnessed the devil's work before; they encountered unadulterated darkness and lived to tell the tale. However, pressing questions remain unanswered. Is demonic influence real? Are the young hosts' souls in danger? — Nick Riganas