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 Marcum, Jennifer Nettles, Norbert Leo Butz and Ann Dowd, along with Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair reprising their roles from the original film.
Plot:
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; she tells Victor to protect their unborn daughter, Angela.
Years later, Angela (Jewett) and her friend Katherine (Marcum) show signs of demonic possession, which unleashes a chain of events that forces Victor (Odom Jr.) to confront the nature of evil. Terrified and desperate, he seeks out Chris MacNeil (Burstyn), the only person alive who's witnessed anything like it before.
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