Wherever those girls went, they brought something back with them

October 3, 2023

THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER Comes to Theaters October 6 – Music by Amman Abbasi & David Wingo

Exactly 50 years ago this fall, the most terrifying horror film in history landed on screens, shocking audiences worldwide. Now, on Friday, October 6, 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.  

When THE EXORCIST, based on the best-selling book by William Peter Blatty, was released, it changed the culture forever, obliterating box office records and earning 10 Academy Award® nominations, becoming the first horror film ever nominated for Best Picture. 

Composer David Wingo is an American film and television composer known for collaborating with directors David Gordon Green and Jeff Nichols. He started composing music for films in Green’s debut feature, GEORGE WASHINGTON, collaborating on the score with Michael Linnen. His score for the Jeff Nichols film TAKE SHELTER, which won the Grand Prix prize at the Cannes Film Festival, landed him a Discovery Of The Year Award nomination at the World Soundtrack Awards. In 2013, Wingo scored Nichols’ MUD, which was released to worldwide acclaim and became the breakout indie hit of the year. Amman Abbasi is a Pakistani-American writer-director, editor, and composer from Little Rock, Arkansas. Filmmaker Magazine listed him among the 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2016, and he is known for DAYVEON (2017), HALLOWEEN KILLS (2021) and MAGGIE (2015).

Summary: 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 O’Neill) 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 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.

THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER is directed by David Gordon Green from a screenplay by Peter Sattler (Camp X-Ray) and David Gordon Green, from a story by Scott Teems (Halloween Kills), Danny McBride (Halloween trilogy) and David Gordon Green, based on characters created by William Peter Blatty. Jason Blum produces the film for Blumhouse, and by David Robinson and James G. Robinson for Morgan Creek Entertainment. Universal Pictures presents a Blumhouse/Morgan Creek Entertainment production in association with Rough House Pictures.

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