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As you all can see, one of the Blumhouse employees gave me an early screening of The Exorcist: Believer in the US, but I am not from there, so I'm not going. There is another reason I don't wanna see it because of my "watch party" month event, "Horror October Night"

So, I'm sorry Ig :/

THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER (2023)

The Exorcist: Believer is a 2023 American supernatural horror film directed by David Gordon Green, who co-wrote the screenplay with Peter Sattler from a story by Scott Teems, Danny McBride, and Green. The sixth installment in The Exorcist franchise, it serves as a sequel to The Exorcist (1973). The film stars Leslie Odom Jr., Lidya Jewett, Olivia O‘Neill in her film debut, Jennifer Nettles, Norbert Leo Butz, and Ann Dowd, along with Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair reprising their roles from the original film. Its plot follows a photographer who must confront the nadir of evil when his daughter and her best friend are possessed.

Originally planned as a reboot in August 2020, it was redeveloped into a direct sequel and follow-up to the original film in December 2020. Jason Blum produces through his Blumhouse Productions banner, alongside David C. and James G. Robinson through their Morgan Creek Entertainment banner, in association with executive producers Green and McBride's Rough House Pictures. Universal Pictures collaborated with Peacock to acquire distribution rights in June 2021. Principal photography took place between November 2022 and March 2023.

The Exorcist: Believer is scheduled to be released in the United States on October 6, 2023. It is the first of three new The Exorcist films, with the second, entitled Deceiver, set for release on April 18, 2025.

Exactly 50 years ago this fall, the most terrifying horror film in history landed on screens, shocking audiences worldwide. Now, on Wednesday, October 4, a new chapter begins. From Blumhouse and director David Gordon Green, who shattered the status quo with their resurrection of the Halloween franchise, comes The Exorcist: Believer.

(This story contains spoilers, please watch the movie first before reading this!):

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 his unborn child, Angela.

Thirteen years later, Victor has lost his faith in God since Sorenne's death, while raising Angela on his own. One day after school, Angela ventures into the woods with her Baptist best friend Katherine to perform a ritual in an attempt to contact Angela's mother. Victor realizes his daughter is missing and contacts Katherine's parents, Miranda and Tony, as a three-day manhunt ensues.

The girls are later found in a barn; though traumatized, they seem relatively normal and are taken home, having only suffered burn marks to their feet. The next day, Angela suddenly attacks Victor and begins convulsing, while Katherine has an outburst during church. Victor admits Angela into hospital where their nurse neighbor Ann attends to her, and Miranda begins to theorize that the girls traveled to Hell and brought a demon back with them, hence the burns to their feet.

The girls' condition worsens as their burns become more severe. Ann, convinced that Angela is possessed after the latter reveals her knowledge of Ann's training as a nun and her abortion, gives Victor a book 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 while becoming world-renowned for her studies. However, Regan became distant from her mother due to the memoir's success and has not seen her since. Victor searches for Chris and takes her to the hospital to see Angela before going to Katherine's home. While Victor attends to Miranda and Tony, Chris goes upstairs and begins to perform her own exorcism on Katherine. Katherine stabs Chris multiple times in the eyes with a crucifix, blinding her, and she is rushed to the hospital.

Victor, Miranda, Tony, and Ann reach out to the church and Father Maddox for an exorcism. Chris advises Victor to use methods from all different cultures and religions, and the group seek the help of Dr. Beehibe, a rootwork healer; Don Revans, Katherine's family's Baptist pastor; and Stuart, a Pentecostal preacher. The group plan the exorcism, but the local diocese forbids Maddox from participating.

The girls are tied to chairs as the group proceed with the exorcism. The demon reveals that Victor did not choose to keep Angela alive thirteen years ago; he chose Sorenne but she died from her injuries. The demon tells him that he needs to choose which of the girls gets to live and which one will die, and if a choice is not made, he 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, Lamashtu, to snap his neck and kill him. As Victor apologizes to Angela and uses Sorenne's scarf to attempt to strengthen her against the demon, Tony yells that he chooses Katherine, and Angela flatlines. Suddenly, the demon reveals the one that was chosen would be the one who died. Katherine screams for her parents as the demon drags her to Hell, while Angela starts to breathe. Police arrive as Miranda and Tony fail to resuscitate Katherine and Victor tearfully reunites with his daughter.

In the aftermath, Victor visits Sorenne's grave, Miranda and Tony mourn the loss of Katherine, and Angela returns to school. In the hospital, Chris is reunited with Regan, who forgives her mother, and they emotionally embrace.

Did you watch the movie? Good, let's move on

In early 2022, Burstyn stated that she had completed production for her part in the film. Though Green had previously stated that he would begin work on the sequel after completing Halloween Ends (2022), given the actress' age and the risks of the COVID-19 pandemic, the production team worked with Burstyn to make sure they had her part completed for the film. Linda Blair, who portrayed Regan MacNeil in the first film, was an "advisor" on set. Green stated to Total Film that "I was really lucky to have [Blair] read the script, but she was not interested in a significant role and stepping back into that. We brought her in as an advisor because we're dealing with young people, and we want to take them to dangerous places safely".

Principal photography began in November 2022, in Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia. Burstyn was brought in that month for reshoots. In mid-December, production was shut down early for the holidays after Odom had an "unspecified health issue". Filming concluded in early March 2023

Anyway, the movie was filmed by Michael Simmonds, let me tell you, the jumpscares in this are weak, and it is so bad that it makes the scary movies not scary anymore, maybe Jason Blum should tell Gordon more about terrifying scenes in The Exorcist franchise

the whole movie was edited by Timothy Alverson, this is the only thing I will give it a good score, editing. The lighting in this is good, the editing and everything is awesome.

One of my favorite edited scenes is the earthquake crack all around the building from the opening. I love how they looked, I love that scene, it's one of the classy opening scenes.

the music was made by David Wingo & Amman Abbasi, these two made it such a great job, bringing back the classic theme, and lots of remakes of the classic theme (like "Tubular Bells - Chris Macneil", "Tubular Bells - I Choose You", "Tubular Bells - Are you looking for Regan?", & "Tubular Bells - Believer" almost all of them are just the same, one of them is just reused and made a whole new sample)

The sound effects here are good as well, but again, the jumpscares are just not affecting me.

• Leslie Odom Jr. - Victor Fielding

• Lidya Jewett - Angela Fielding

• Jennifer Nettles - Miranda, Katherine's Mother

• Norbert Leo Butz - Tony, Katherine's Father

• Olivia Marcum - Katherine

• Ann Dowd - herself, as a nun

• Ellen Burstyn - Chris MacNeil

• Linda Blair - Regan MacNeil

For the first time since the 1973 film, Oscar® winner Ellen Burstyn reprises her iconic role as Chris MacNeil, an actress who has been forever altered by what happened to her daughter Regan five decades before.

The film also stars Emmy winner Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale, Hereditary) as Victor and Angela’s neighbor, and Grammy winner Jennifer Nettles (Harriet, The Righteous Gemstones) and two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz (Fosse/Verdon, Bloodline) as the parents of Katherine, Angela’s friend.

I love their performance in the acting but it's just not affecting me, there is still a problem with Blumhouse actors acting in these scenes. There is no "360-degree head turn" scene (which is almost a classy scene), which made me disappointed in this movie

I've been waiting for this movie for 4 months, and the results? you'll see when you hover over the spoilers. First, let's recap all of these sections. The plot? sucks, Cinematography? also sucked, The editing? actually good, The soundtrack? ALMOST good, and finally, The acting... disappointed

this is the movie that you SHOULD'VE never watched in the theater, once they said it's Rated R, they meant R is like PG-13 (with some gruesome kill in the exorcism scene) I give this movie a...

4/10. What the hell is even this movie, man. Gordon, I'm so disappointed.

The Box Office suddenly stopped after 3 days of premiering in every theater worldwide, the movie has grossed over a total of $91.1 Million.

It is so funny, looking through the review, it's just so f*cking funny.
Thoughts on Rotten Tomatoes:

22% on Tomatometer, 59% on audience rating

with a quote:
"The Exorcist: Believer earns points for trying to take the franchise back to its terrifying roots, but a lack of new ideas – and scares – make this an inauspicious start to a planned new trilogy."

Thoughts on IMDb:

5.1/10 on IMDb rating

Thoughts on Metacritic:

39/100 on Metascore, 3.7/10 on use score
which is a "generally unfavorable" number

Thoughts on CinemaScore:

average grade C on gradescore scale

Thoughts on IGN:

6/10 on IGN rating

with a quote:
"Double the possession means double the problems for The Exorcist: Believer, which is a serviceable horror movie on its own merits, but a disappointing revival for a cornerstone of horror cinema."

CONCLUSION

That was the second Blumhouse movie review after "Insidious: The Red Door". There'll be more Blumhouse movies which I'll be reviewing on October 28 or sooner if I've already seen it, this next one is the one that everyone (I mean EVERYONE) has been waiting for after 8.6 years.

Alright, that's all, folks, see you soon next week.

Oh yeah, I also updated the funny Wally man game thumbnail