Exorcist

In July 2021, Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions announced some ambitious franchise plans. Following a successful collaboration with the recent trilogy of Halloween movies, the studios announced that they were making three new features in the canon of The Exorcist. David Gordon Green was hired to helm the first feature, with the idea that he would then execute a macro vision… but things didn’t go exactly as planned. The Exorcist: Believer was panned by critics prior to its arrival in theaters, and the film…

By Lisa Respers France | CNN Mercenaries, a giant shark and a very scary version of Winnie the Pooh are among the central characters in the best of the worst in cinema as the nominees for the 2024 Razzies were revealed on Monday. Sylvester Stallone’s “Expend4bles” led with seven nominations, including worst picture, followed by “Exorcist: Believer,” with five nods. This year’s acting contenders feature former Oscar winners Jon Voight, Russell Crowe and Dame Helen Mirren, as well as Razzie “repeat offenders” Sylvester…

The Exorcist: Believer | Official TrailerThose Hollywood execs from 20 years ago smelled trouble when their Exorcist prequel wasn’t scary enough, but apparently there wasn’t that kind of oversight on Believer, which had some disturbing imagery but zero frights. The film also had a surprisingly predictable story despite being assembled from a carefully crafted list of “stuff The Exorcist movies haven’t done before,” including giving us a pair of girls possessed in tandem, and the idea that people of diverse religions…

For horror film fans it looms large like the Lincoln Memorial or Washington Monument. An official city plaque announces that a precipitous stone staircase in Georgetown, Washington DC, will forever be known as the Exorcist steps. It marks the spot where “Father Karras plummets the seventy-five steps to his death” at the movie’s climax.Joggers who work out on the steps might get some company on Tuesday from Exorcist devotees savouring a milestone: the 50th anniversary of the release of a movie that prompted reports of…

Image: Universal PicturesOne of the most anticipated horror movies of 2023 is about to make its Peacock debut. And while The Exorcist: Believer didn’t exactly set critics on fire, here’s your chance to check out David Gordon Green’s would-be franchise reviver and trilogy-starter ahead of the annual slew of “best/worst” film lists. Are Fans Tired of Marvel and DC? Superhero Fatigue at NYCC 2023The Exorcist: Believer joins Peacock’s surprisingly strong horror library (check out some recommendations here) on December 1. It’s…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeFans of The Exorcist have been left feeling wary over the future of the film franchise.Over the weekend, the trailer of a new sequel, titled The Exorcist: Believer, was shown ahead of Oppenheimer screenings, and on Tuesday (25 July), that trailer was made available online.The film follows two young girls who are found three days after going missing, and then start to display evidence…

The exorcist enters the ring Bandai Namco has just unveiled the next fighter returning for Tekken 8. Coming back after his introduction in Tekken 7 is Claudio Serafino, the closest we’ll ever get to an Italian Final Fantasy protagonist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSFaTCoVJ2I Who is this literal godsend? Claudio is the greatest exorcist in the world and de facto leader of the Archers of Sirius, an order of exorcists that I assume has been KO’ing demons for centuries. He entered Tekken lore in Tekken 7 as Heihachi…

Image via Universal Pictures Whenever the conversation is about the scariest horror movies, 1973’s The Exorcist almost always comes out as the winner. But as I said, almost always.  In years since the film, there have been many that have tried to edge it out of the top rank but only a few have managed to be deemed horrifying enough to contend for The Exorcist’s crown, and one such scary wonder is John Carpenter’s 1982 sci-fi horror flick, The Thing.  Starring Kurt Russell, The Thing, saw a group of American…

Image via Warner Bros. Settle in for another Terrifying Thursday, gorehounds! If you were lucky enough, then you were able to stream Scream VI for free AND in its entirety on Twitter yesterday. Unfortunately, the videos have since been removed for copyright, denying those that didn’t receive an opportunity to watch it. Nevertheless, we’ve got an abundance of spooky content to keep you entertained in today’s daily horror roundup here at We Got This Covered. From The Exorcist: Believer packing an assortment of…

Fresh off their trilogy re-imagining the Halloween franchise, producer Jason Blum and director David Gordon Green are doing it again. They’re prepping three Exorcist films to hit theaters in the coming years and at CinemaCon 2023, we saw the first footage from the first of those films. It’s now officially called The Exorcist: Believer.Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard Nerd Out About Jurassic Park's Returning HeroesThe footagebegan with Leslie Odom Jr.’s character dropping off his daughter and her best friend at…