The Exorcist Believer Trailer

Umm...no.

Looks terrible. The novel was basically about faith. The Mom had absolute faith in modern medicine until it couldnt help Regan. The younger Priest was losing his faith until he was confronted with Pazuzu. The horror was a result of this struggle and was only about 10% of the book.

This stupid movie seems to lose the plot and will focus only on the horror and as a result will dilute it.

..... Second installment already announced:

Exorcist - Deceiver

For part 3 of the planned trilogy I predict a golden retriever possession

Exorcist - Retriever

I love the musical call backs.

Hi.

If David Gordon Green’s track record with the Halloween trilogy is anything to go by, you let him direct the first one and keep his ass away from the next two. But Blumhouse, for some odd reason, has again turned over the keys to him so he can write and direct all three movies.

[quote]I love the musical call backs.

One of the best movie music scores/songs of all time. Instantly iconic. But the full song is really long and gets boring and I can only listen to like the first couple minutes.

Weren't the advance screenings a disaster?

Does Oscar just like dressing as a woman, or does he like BEING the woman?

I am not sure I'm sold on this. Jamie Lee Curtis can scream his name all she wants, but David Gordon Green is the new Michael Bay of the horror genre. The trailer for this has a couple of decent moments, but it's by and large very cliched and looks like any number of demonic possession-themed films that have come out in the last decade. Some of that flashy, jittery editing (particularly where the girl is repeating "the body and the blood") screams "early 2000s" and just looks stylistically dated.

It's clear they trying to make this a more unitarian exorcism movie (note Burstyn's dialogue about exorcism existing in many religions and that this case "is going to need all of them")—I get the sentiment, but it all feels a bit too on-the-nose. Overall, it looks...trite. I hope this series of "Exorcist" films ends Green's career. He deserves it.

Lol r10, I caught that too. A religiously inclusive exorcism. Gimme a break.

I have a feeling they gave Burstyn some creative licence in the writing too as she's studied Eastern religions and spirituality. She talks alot about this in her autobiography.

You know, that actually looks...not horrible. I mean...I would've rather had Linda Blair instead of Burstyn. They really should've bent over backward to get her back.

Double your demons, double your fun!

r12 well played you lil devil you

Terrible. Not a patch on the series with Ben Daniels and Alfonso Herrera.

Is this a Tubi Original? Looks like it.

Blumhouse r17.

r18 didn't get it.

It does look like. Tubi original. Blumhouse produces such shit.

I can't help but hum that catchy tune "Devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress. Devil with the blue dress on"

I think I will watch some Tubi Originals tonight to prepare myself for the wretched new Exorcist. 😈

Devilry and Ivory

It looks like the first season opening credits of Supernatural in 2005.

The shot of the dangling photo of "Regan" in the trailer is actually a publicity still of Linda Blair from "Sarah T. – Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic"!

Blair is listed as cast in this. I suspect she'll pull a cameo at the end and show up in the second installment "Exorcist - Deceiver" which was just announced.

If they put Blair in that motherfucking makeup again I *will* shit me pants.

Linda in her makeup looks better than 95 year old Ellen Burstyn.

Do you know me, I mean deep down inside, do you know Sarah T? I don't think that you do!

Its too damn MUCH MOMMA!

But when I call out your name, you're not there...

So I got a NEW MOMMA NOW

Booze is MY MOMMA!

and this momma loves me ALL THE TIME..

Burstyn looks fantastic for her age. She's 93 FFS..

90* years old

R17 I wish this was a Tubi production with an entirely Black cast--no offense to our non-Black posters. There would have to be a scene where they find a young, rebellious excommunicated HOT priest in a strip joint. The girls' mothers would have laid down, jet Black human hair extensions, false eyelashes and call everyone "Bitch." Their fathers would look like HOT basketball players. One of the mothers would be a lawyer or a doctor--OF COURS--and the other a nurse.

It's already been done r31. "Abby" - 1974.

I tried to was a few Tubi Originals last night but the acting was so bad. Plus the shaky, unable-to-record-demonic-presence camera fuckery from 2001, it was pretty sad.

The only thing I liked about The Exorcist TV series was the reveal that Geena Davis was Regan MacNeil. And then she killed Chris.

The second season was too depressing, so I dropped it.

Apparently The Heretic and E3 are canon, which kind of depresses me cause I was hoping for a Sharon return.

Kitty deserves better than stepping on a busted headlight.

DGG didn't wipe all continuity since 1973?

I watch E3 all the time but haven't seen The Heretic in over 40 years. Was Chris mentioned in it?

Chris was off somewhere filming.

She dumped Regan on Sharon in Manhattan.

Perhaps JEJ will reprise his role as Kokumo?

Time to dust off that locust costume.

I'm sure the special f/x will be slicker, but the original was buoyed by the acting. Even though they weren't well-known stars at the time, the cast had screen presence. Except for Burstyn, I don't see that in this one.

r38

Will they be masturbating themselves bloody with iPhones?

Show which girl runs down a darkened hallway on all fours, upside down? This is required, right?

A lot of what they did with Regan in the original they couldn’t do with a child, now. No 12 year-olds fucking themselves with crucifixes. I doubt kids in movies could even tell priests that their mothers suck cocks in hell. The 70s was such a simpler time.

[quote] Show which girl runs down a darkened hallway on all fours, upside down? This is required, right?

R41 I don’t know if they’ll be that creative but someone will undoubtedly get violently yanked back into darkness.

R28 I used to quote that SNL sketch often.

Burstyn admitted that they shoved a shit ton of money at her to do this. So much so she used it to start a scholarship program for The Actor's Studio.

Yeah, Burstyn was the only hold out from the original film to not make an appearance in any of the sequels.

Holy shit, I didn’t realize Ellen was 90! She looks good.

I think that little white beotch killed the horse. I think that's why she entered the church bloodied, cut away from a prior scene with a horse lying on its side outside what appeared to be the church.

I really hope there's no animal torture in this. It will mean I cannot watch it.

The story right now is that Blair’s role was just as a technical advisor, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she shot a cameo that they’re keeping under wraps, and that this would set up her having a larger part in the sequels.

R32 No. You're missing the point. I'm not talking about a 49-year-old movie. I'm talking about a contemporary version with the same elements found in typical Tubi films.

There's one Black actress I've seen in two different Tubi Original horror movies. She could star in that, r50.

(I forget her name. She's in a lot of stuff).

I went to Georgetown University in the 90s. My theology teacher was a consultant on the original Exorcist because he had perfumed them. He was creepy as fuck. Father King.

R52 "Because he had perfumed them?" Huh?

Performed, I'm sure.

R12 I'm sucking Rick James' cock in hell! Oh, wait, no I'm still alive. Why didn't they call me?

R51 This last week I've been watching a lot of Tubi shit. There's a show called "Chef Julian" kinda like a male "Insecure" without the insecurity or humor BUT the lead actor is so BEYOND that I actually want to lick the screen. I usually don't watch subpar things because the actors are hot BUT I make an exception here.

Is this that new horror movie starring a popular rock band? They must be riding off the success of Studio 666.

LOL they black'd it up. Let's pretend that the jungle people have the same beliefs as the plains people.

Didn’t Pazuzu manifest in Africa in the 1930s/40s?

Why are you so racist?

It does look scary in some parts but still very cheesy overall.

The scariest part of the movie is all the black people.

I hope Eileen Dietz returns as the face of Pazuzu.

Here is trailer #2 which dropped today.

It alludes to Regan's fate as predeceasing Chris MacNeil.

This trailer legitimately creeped me out.

It should have been Exorxist 2 Pazuzu Boogaloo

R65 Nothing about this seems "fresh." It all looks like it's been done before.

Regan is alive and Linda is in it. Linda will also be in the next film.

I can't wait for Hollywood to churn out the inevitable "Exorcist vs Jaws", or as it will be more commonly called, EvW.

The teaser trailer had a few creepy moments, but the full trailer makes this look absolutely fucking abysmal—trite to the nth degree. It seems they are doing a lot of reworking in post-production on the possession voices for the girls, as they sound drastically different (in the same sequences shown) between the two trailers. The movie looks like an utter hack job from hack extraordinaire David Gordon Green. The fact that 90-year-old Ellen Burstyn only agreed to do it because the check was big and she could roll the money into the Actors' Studio is telling.

Sadly r70 I think you're right. I really wanted this to be good.

When David Gordon Greene started out, he was mentioned in the same breath as Alexander Payne, Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater and Paul Thomas Anderson.

HAHAHAHA

It will likely be savaged by critics. But if it clicks with audiences who don't know the original, it may be a hit.

In other words, dumb young people r23. They're the ones who seem impressed by the previews of the movie (based on their twitter comments).

[quote] dumb young people

Who are you calling, "dumb", you cursive writing elder person? I saw the trailer when it dropped and knew right away that this would be a great movie! We've seen ONE cisgender girl violently possessed against her will by a devil in lots of other movies. But how many times have we seen TWO possessed girls at the same time? And one is a POC?!? The violation is off the charts! This is going to be EPIC!

Yes, r75, the devil is a metaphor of the patriarchy taking over wymen and women's bodies.

I stand corrected, r75. Pardon me while I pour myself a tumbler from my box of wine.

R74 - Bless your heart, those aren't actual people posting...

Guy a follow on Youtube just came out of a screening. He says it SUCKS and DGG is officially a hack.

He said he was bored, the trailer is misleading, and Ellen Burstyn is in just under 10 minutes of the film.

Really bad review- He also said it was. boring.

24% on Rotten Tomatoes.

David Gordon Green isn’t getting my money on this, especially after the three abortions that were the new Halloween trilogy. Jamie Lee Curtis can wax poetic all she wants about how those films were some deep mediation on trauma (excuse me—TROWma) but that batty old bitch is deluding herself. Horror is not this man’s forte. I will be happy to see this get critically excoriated. Unfortunately, I’m sure it will make a ton of money because the general public are pig people, easily led to slop, which will enable Green to make two more installments in his trilogy despite being a critical failure.

They were hoping for $30M opening weekend haul. I'd be surprised if it gets half that.

And it is being roundly excoriated by critics and fans. RT gives it a 25% fresh rating currently.

While I wasn't expecting it to be excellent, I at least expected it to not be ridiculously cheesy, which it is, apparently.

I stand corrected, it's now at 22% lol

IMDB rating is pretty low, too. I never understood how the rebooted Halloween series was thought to be so great. I had high expectations because of the hype, and they turned out pretty meh.

The trailer to me is shit. As joked about already, you've seen this shit on the free streamers under the horror section. In fact, I don't even think I'd watch this if all I had to do was hit play. Not worth my money or time.

[quote] While I wasn't expecting it to be excellent, I at least expected it to not be ridiculously cheesy, which it is, apparently.

Certainly not cheesier or more ridiculously than my foray into the series!

Regan tap dancing her way back into the arms of Pazuzu in The Heretic suddenly seems less repulsive.

Mark Kermode, who is a diehard fan of the original (as in he has written books and produced documentaries about it) unsurprisingly gored this in his review today. I trust him.

I watched a review from a YouTuber who said that at one point Leslie Odom Jr.'s character asks Ellen Burstyn's why she wasn't in the room during Regan's exorcism, to which she responds: "The patriarchy."

I am embarrassed for everyone involved in this piece of shit (except the director, who was on my shit list already).

The trailer didn’t surprise me a bit. Other than Ari Aster, I don’t think we are capable of making quality horror pictures in this country anymore. It’s just an endless procession of by-the-numbers genre schlock, using the same worn out bag of tricks over and over again.

Ari Aster needs a good editor to make him great- he is getting bogged down with himself. Mike Flanigan is solid, Ti West and Julia Ducournau are up-and-comers.

Ari Aster movies are pretentious shit

I think Jordan Peele is good, or I like his movies. I’m sure I’ll be in the minority on this.

Ah I forgot about Jordan. Yes, he's solid, although his Twilight Zone reboot was terrible. He's also great to work with, unlike Flanagan, who is a screamer.

It seems Universal and/or hack David Gordon Green are paying for multiple Indian sockpuppet accounts to give the film the same glowing review (albeit with a few word changes between the two) on IMDB. There have been at least 10 of these reviews posted there today. Just a few examples:

Highly satisfied movie "With its shocking climax, The Exorcist: Believer forces us to confront our own biases and judgements, reminding us that evil can lurk even within the most trusted individuals. The movie's movie leaves us contemplating the lasting impact of trauma and the potential for healing and redemption in the face of unspeakable darkness. The Exorcist: Believer concludes with a sense of emotional catharsis, reminding us of the transformative power of facing our fears head-on. With its shocking climax, The Exorcist: Believer forces us to confront our own biases and judgements, reminding us that evil can lurk even within the most trusted individuals. The movie's movie leaves us contemplating the lasting impact of trauma and the potential for healing and redemption in the face of unspeakable darkness. The Exorcist: Believer concludes with a sense of emotional catharsis, reminding us of the transformative power of facing our fears head-on."

Beautiful movie "With its unsettling finale, The Exorcist: Believer pushes the boundaries of our comfort zones and confronts us with the darkness that lies beyond. The movie's movie serves as a reminder that evil can infect even the purest of hearts, highlighting the need for constant vigilance against its influence. The Exorcist: Believer's movie raises philosophical questions about free will and the choices we make in the face of temptation. With its unsettling finale, The Exorcist: Believer pushes the boundaries of our comfort zones and confronts us with the darkness that lies beyond. The movie's movie serves as a reminder that evil can infect even the purest of hearts, highlighting the need for constant vigilance against its influence. The Exorcist: Believer's movie raises philosophical questions about free will and the choices we make in the face of temptation."

Nice movie "With its haunting final moments, The Exorcist: Believer explores the cyclical nature of evil and the eternal struggle to maintain our humanity. The movie's movie serves as a chilling reminder that evil can permeate every aspect of our lives, urging us to remain vigilant and steadfast in our beliefs. The Exorcist: Believer's movie leaves audiences questioning the limits of our understanding and the mysterious forces that may lay beyond our comprehension. With its haunting final moments, The Exorcist: Believer explores the cyclical nature of evil and the eternal struggle to maintain our humanity. The movie's movie serves as a chilling reminder that evil can permeate every aspect of our lives, urging us to remain vigilant and steadfast in our beliefs. The Exorcist: Believer's movie leaves audiences questioning the limits of our understanding and the mysterious forces that may lay beyond our comprehension."

Ossom movie "With its thought-provoking finale, The Exorcist: Believer invites us to question the nature of evil and the enduring power of temptation. The movie's movie serves as a stark reminder that evil is not limited to supernatural beings but can also manifest itself through human actions. The Exorcist: Believer's movie leaves audiences contemplating the transformative potential of forgiveness and the redemption of even the darkest souls. With its thought-provoking finale, The Exorcist: Believer invites us to question the nature of evil and the enduring power of temptation. The movie's movie serves as a stark reminder that evil is not limited to supernatural beings but can also manifest itself through human actions. The Exorcist: Believer's movie leaves audiences contemplating the transformative potential of forgiveness and the redemption of even the darkest souls."

R95 here. Scratch "at least 10"—I kept scrolling and there is at least 20 (if not 30+) of these bogus reviews that have been shared on IMDB. All of them have a 10/10 rating, were posted the same day, and are clearly written by the same person who has a tenuous grasp on the English language. Truly pathetic that Green/the studio are going to these lengths.

I predict 24 million tops- and then the biggest decline ever!

And I even enjoyed Kills!!! (and did not find Ends THAT bad- just that the ideas should have been dispersed over 3 films, NOT the finale of the trilogy)

Wait, Believer isn't a movie about Imagine Dragons?! What the fuck, man

I disagree with the reviews saying the first two acts are dull. I thought they mimicked the original's style very well and created a creepy feeling with the two girls missing, the baffling loss of time on their end, the possibility they were traumatized, and then the reveal that something darker might be at work. But once they get into that fricking tired exorcism shit... I was so not scared. They ruin everything with the special effects and the misguided thinking that you need an exorcism in every movie. You really don't. Look at how creepy the third Exorcist movie was (first two thirds) and when it no longer was (the last third with the tacked-on exorcism the studio demanded be added on despite it not being in Blatty's book). So really, a huge wasted effort.

R99 I wouldn’t call them dull either, but nothing as enthralling as the one 50 years ago. I think part of the issue with the film were the actors. The parents weren’t very interesting and charismatic. And the actors cast just really didn’t bring it. Neither were the girl actors who looked strange, but this was probably deliberate, considering they’d be possessed most of the movie. You really wished Burstyn would stay for much of the film. And you missed her when she was gone. I agree about the woods, and some of the shots of the girls possessed were truly horrifying. The exorcism was ok, but nothing on par with the first one. I expected it to be horrible, but all in all it wasn’t. Valiant effort, but nothing that will live on in cinematic history. Love the last shot though with Burstyn and SPOILER ALERT Blair.

I'd been looking forward to this for ages. Had this thread on watch but hadn't read anything so I didn't spoil the film. Saw it tonight. What a stinking piece of shit. My friends and I laughed out loud. It was slow. Had storylines that went nowhere. Special effects were crap. Entirely predictable. Not a single jump scare. Just...terrible. The only redeeming feature was Leslie Odom Jr., who makes for very nice eye candy.

[quote] Ari Aster movies are pretentious shit

👆👆👆 someone who loves “Insidious 15 — the Haunting of the Pet Dog”

[quote] Mike Flanigan is solid, Ti West and Julia Ducournau are up-and-comers.

Flanagan is a good storyteller but, as has been said so often, his horror isn’t in the least bit frightening. Haven’t seen Raw or Titane so can’t speak to Ducournau. West was one of my favorite indy horror directors but when he went Hollywood his movies lost their edge — the X trilogy is entertaining but not really scary, not like, say, HOTD.

I watched this today on a flight. AWFUL. I turned it off halfway through and watched something else before finishing it on principle.