31 Days of Horror: The Exorcist: Believer (2023)
This wasn’t a dumpster fire that I thought it would be.
When I walked into the theater to see The Exorcist: Believer, I thought I was walking into a boring 111-minute-long remake of a classic film. However, as I watched the credits roll, I discovered that I sort of liked it.
Directed by David Gordon Green, The Exorcist: Believer picks up fifty years after the events of the first film, The Exorcist. This time around, the story focuses on Victor Fielding and his 13-year-old daughter Angela. Victor’s wife tragically died during an earthquake in Haiti. Angela and her friend Katherine decide to go off into the woods and use a crystal to attempt to speak to Angela’s dead mother.
Then, as you may expect, things go wrong, and they disappear.
Three days later, the two girls are found but without their memories of the last couple days. As one might expect, things progressively go downhill, and the families come to terms with the fact that their daughters are now possessed by demonic spirits. The families must band together and figure out a way to exorcise the demons before they claim the souls of the two girls.
There are a lot of things that are a little bit too similar to the first film. For instance, instead of a Ouija Board, the girls use a crystal to speak to the…
