The Exorcist: Believer
Movie, 2023, Regan MacNeil, Set in Georgia, 50 years later
The Exorcist: Believer is #7 of 7 in release order and #7 of 7 in chronological order in the The Exorcist.
The story
Since his wife's death, Victor has raised his daughter Angela alone. After she and her friend return from a three-day disappearance with missing memories, they begin displaying frightening behavior reminiscent of the MacNeil possession fifty years prior.
The Exorcist: Believer recap
The Exorcist: Believer (2023) follows a widower in Georgia whose daughter and her best friend vanish in the woods for three days and come back possessed. David Gordon Green directs and co-wrote it as a direct sequel to the 1973 film. Victor Fielding (Leslie Odom Jr.), a photographer who lost his wife in the Haiti earthquake 13 years earlier, is raising Angela (Lidya Jewett) alone. Angela and her friend Katherine West (Olivia O'Neill) try a séance to reach Angela's mother, and when they are found in a barn they have burned feet and no memory of the missing days. Both girls turn violent. Their neighbour Ann (Ann Dowd), a nurse who once trained as a nun, puts Victor in touch with Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn), who has spent 50 years studying possession and is now estranged from Regan. Katherine stabs Chris in the eyes during a first attempt. Katherine's parents, Miranda (Jennifer Nettles) and Tony (Norbert Leo Butz), join a group of faiths that plans a combined exorcism. It follows The Exorcist and ignores every other sequel.
The Exorcist: Believer ending explained
The Exorcist: Believer ends with the demon forcing the parents to choose which girl lives. When Tony cries out that he chooses Katherine, the demon reveals the chosen one dies, and drags her to Hell while Angela recovers. Chris, in hospital, is visited by Regan (Linda Blair). The planned trilogy was scrapped, and the series is being rebooted with Mike Flanagan's The Exorcist: Martyrs.
Post-credits scenes
No. The Exorcist: Believer has no mid- or post-credits scene.
Where to watch The Exorcist: Believer
The Exorcist: Believer is streaming on Peacock and Fandango at Home Free in the US. You can rent or buy it on Amazon, Apple TV, and Google Play.
Ratings
IMDb 4.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 22%
Where it fits
- Release order: after The Exorcist, the latest.
- Chronological order: after The Exorcist, the last.
What to watch before The Exorcist: Believer
In release order, the essentials before The Exorcist: Believer (2023) are The Exorcist (1973), Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), The Exorcist III (1990), Exorcist: The Beginning (2004), Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005), and The Exorcist (2016).
Cast
- Leslie Odom Jr. as Victor Fielding
- Lidya Jewett as Angela Fielding
- Olivia O'Neill as Katherine West
- Ann Dowd as Nurse Ann Brooks
- Jennifer Nettles as Miranda West
- Norbert Leo Butz as Tony West
- Okwui Okpokwasili as Dr. Beehibe
- Raphael Sbarge as Pastor Don Revans
- E.J. Bonilla as Father Maddox
- Ellen Burstyn as Chris MacNeil
- Linda Blair as Regan MacNeil
- Danny McCarthy as Stuart
Directed by David Gordon Green.