The Exorcist: Believer Trailer - A Terrifying New Chapter Unleashes Unseen Evil, with Ellen Burstyn Returning to Reprise Her Iconic Role

Universal Pictures released the first trailer for ‘The Exorcist: Believer,’ the sixth installment in The Exorcist franchise, which will serve as a direct sequel to The Exorcist (1973). The unseen horror resurfaces as The Exorcist: Believer brings forth a father’s desperate quest to save his daughter from a haunting past. Watch the trailer below.

Directed by David Gordon Green from a screenplay by Peter Sattler and David Gordon Green, based on a story by Scott Teems, Danny McBride, and David Gordon Green, and inspired by characters created by William Peter Blatty.

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What is the plot of The Exorcist: Believer?

According to the film’s plot: Exactly 50 years ago this fall, the most terrifying horror film in history landed on screens, shocking audiences around the world. Now, on Friday, October 13, 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. Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding (Tony winner and Oscar® nominee Leslie Odom Jr.; One Night in Miami, Hamilton) has raised their daughter, Angela (Lidya Jewett, Good Girls) on his own. But when Angela and her friend Katherine (newcomer Olivia Marcum), disappear in the woods, only to return three days later with no memory of what happened to them, it unleashes a chain of events that will force Victor to confront the nadir of evil and, in his terror and desperation, seek out the only person alive who has witnessed anything like it before: Chris 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 Exorcist: Believer stars Leslie Odom Jr. as Victor Fielding, Ann Dowd, Jennifer Nettles, Norbert Leo Butz, Lidya Jewett as Angela Fielding, Olivia Marcum as Katherine, Ellen Burstyn as Chris MacNeil, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Raphael Sbarge.

Universal Pictures presents The Exorcist: Believer, a Blumhouse and Morgan Creek Entertainment production. Produced by Jason Blum (Blumhouse) and David Robinson, James G. Robinson (Morgan Creek Entertainment). Executive producers: Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Stephanie Allain, Ryan Turek, and Atilla Yücer. In association with Rough House Pictures.