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The Exorcist: Believer

2023 · 111 min

A somber, slow-burning horror that leans on grief and fractured faith, offering few scares but a heavy, earnest atmosphere.

Genres
Horror
Tagline
Body and the blood.
Overview
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.

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • faith
  • grief
  • family
  • parenthood
  • survival
Places
  • small town
  • home
  • hospital
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror7
Humour1
Realism6
Romance1
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

In this series

The Exorcist Collection

  1. The ExorcistMovie · 1973
  2. Exorcist II: The HereticMovie · 1977
  3. The Exorcist IIIMovie · 1990
  4. Exorcist: The BeginningMovie · 2004
  5. Dominion: Prequel to The ExorcistMovie · 2005
  6. The Exorcist: BelieverMovie · 2023 This title

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Genres
horror
Directed by
David Gordon Green
Written by
David Gordon Green, Peter Sattler
Starring
Leslie Odom Jr., Lidya Jewett, Olivia O'Neill, Ann Dowd, Jennifer Nettles, Norbert Leo Butz, Okwui Okpokwasili, Raphael Sbarge
Music
Amman Abbasi, David Wingo
Cinematography
Michael Simmonds
Runtime
111 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English, Haitian; Haitian Creole, Latin, Portuguese

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