The Exorcist: Believer

"Body and the blood."

2023 1h 51m EN

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Since his wife's death, Victor has raised his daughter Angela alone. After she and her friend return from a three-day disappearance with missing memories, they begin displaying frightening behavior reminiscent of the MacNeil possession fifty years prior.

“Body and the blood.”

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Cast

Leslie Odom Jr.
Victor Fielding
Lidya Jewett
Angela Fielding
Olivia O'Neill
Katherine West
Ann Dowd
Nurse Ann Brooks
Jennifer Nettles
Miranda West
Norbert Leo Butz
Tony West
Okwui Okpokwasili
Dr. Beehibe
Raphael Sbarge
Pastor Don Revans

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: David Gordon Green
Writers: David Gordon Green, Peter Sattler, Warren Drummond
Languages: English, Haitian; Haitian Creole, Latin, Portuguese
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Made its money back 4.6× over at the box office.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 3 years ago.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 4 languages: English, Haitian; Haitian Creole, Latin, Portuguese.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "The Exorcist Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

CAST

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218+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by David Gordon Green, shot by Michael Simmonds. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by David Wingo. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Timothy Alverson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

David Gordon Green directs. Michael Simmonds behind the camera. David Wingo scores. Timothy Alverson cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, Haitian; Haitian Creole, Latin, Portuguese.

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Things worth knowing

1Made its money back 4.6× over at the box office.
2Released 3 years ago.
3Dialogue crosses 4 languages: English, Haitian; Haitian Creole, Latin, Portuguese.
4Part of the "The Exorcist Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5218+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
6Directed by David Gordon Green, shot by Michael Simmonds. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by David Wingo. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Timothy Alverson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Leslie Odom Jr. and Lidya Jewett and Olivia O'Neill carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "Body and the blood.".
11IMDB entry: tt12921446 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 20 themes, including "based on novel or book", "faith", "exorcism", "possession".
13Released under 38 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Michael Simmonds
Original score: David Wingo
Editing: Timothy Alverson
Production design: Brandon Tonner-Connolly
Costume design: Lizz Wolf
Makeup / hair: Dawn Angeletti
Sound: Ted Teske
Stunt coordinator: Kevin Scott
Runtime: 111 min · 1h 51m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $30,000,000
Box office: $136,998,069
Return: 457% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: The Exorcist: Believer (2023)

Part of

The Exorcist Collection

A horror anthology series focused on fictional accounts of demonic possession, and the efforts of religious authorities to counter it with various acts of faith. Inspired by the literary works of William Peter Blatty.

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GenerationofSwine2023-10-13
★ 1/10
Well, they made The Exorcist woke... and oddly Anti-Catholic... and it flopped. Seriously, The Pope's Exorcist was better and EVERYONE knew that was going to flop. I'm going to tell you right now that you should go back and watch the prequel movies because they were better... BOTH of them. You have two little girls, a strong anti-Catholic message, a strong anti-patriarchy message, you know... the usual Hollywood meh messaging (except the Anti-Catholic part, that is a dead horse that hasn't been beaten nearly as much) and, most importantly, the same sequel/reboot/franchise killer that seems to go out of it's way to insult all the fans of the original film... ... and everyone that helped make it. Which, honestly, is also a dead horse that's been beaten too much these days. In fact, insulting the original is sort of a trope these days. People that actually like Terminator: Dark Fate are going to rave about this one... but everyone else is going to roll their eyes because at the end of the day, it has the exact same boring message as everything else. And like everything else with that message, everything else from bookend to bookend takes a backseat to it. Bad dialogue peppered with political lectures. Bad acting (but let's be honest, they had nothing to work with) and in the end even the demon lacked the sardonic and vulgar wit of the first one. But, hey, if you liked Dark Fate and thought The Rise of Skywalker was better than Empire, this movie is for you. But everyone else has seen it before and is tired of it.
CinemaSerf2023-10-19
★ 5/10
"Angela" (Lidya Jewett) and her school mate "Katherine" (Olivia O'Neill) go for a walk in the woods one day. They don't come home - and panic amongst the parents ensues. Luckily, the girls turn up in a cow-barn a few miles away but have no recollection of just what they had been doing for the three days they had been missing. Anyway, dad "Victor" (Leslie Odom Jr.) soon starts to notice some odd behaviour from his previously reasonable daughter and before we know it, she - and her friend - are showing worrying signs of a possession that resonates all too readily with events some fifty years earlier and that finds him seeking the help of "Chris MacNeil" (Ellen Burstyn) before the girls are Satanic toast. It's ten minutes shy of two hours long this, and that's about ninety minutes too long. The vast majority of this film is taken up by pointless preamble, family establishment scenarios and unfortunately the acting and writing are really lacklustre too. Burstyn only makes sparing appearances and Odom Jr. ought to just stick to singing. The last ten minutes is slightly better than standard Blumhouse fayre that concludes this completely unnecessary sequel with, admittedly, a couple of not so predicable twists, but still - with very little to make the preceding drudge worth watching. This is a poor relation to the original and should have gone straight to a streamer.
hamfaceman2024-01-02
★ 4/10
I've seen better