New promotional video for THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER seeks to put a more positive spin on the demonic story

A new promotional video has been released The Exorcist: Believerand while this film will tell an incredibly dark and demonic story of two young girls possessed by Satan, this video features the cast and crew trying to put a more positive spin on the film.

It is explained that the film is about “different people with different beliefs coming together”. They say it’s a story about “the power of love in the face of spiritual obstacles.” It’s also about “the love of a father and daughter” and they also talk about the importance of representation in the story.

Now, that’s all well and good, but the crux of this story is about the horrors of Satan and the terrifying possession of two girls, and uh… that’s why horror movie fans will go see it. Sure, the power of love and family helps strengthen the story, but this is a horror film.

This horrific journey begins when the two girls go out into the woods in an attempt to speak to the dead. You see, one of the girls’ mom died and she wanted to talk to her.

Here is the synopsis of the film:

Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding (Leslie Odom Jr.; One Night in Miami, Hamilton) raised their daughter, Angela (Lidya JewettGood Girls) alone.

But when Angela and her friend Katherine (Olivia Marcum), disappear into the woods, only to return three days later with no memory of what happened, unleashes a chain of events that will force Victor to face the lowest point of evil and, in his terror and desperation, to search for the only person alive who has witnessed something similar before: Chris MacNeil.

This film is the first of a trilogy signed by Blumhouse and the director of Halloween David Gordon Green. The franchise also sees the return of Ellen Burstyn as Chris MacNeil, “an actress who was forever changed by what happened to her daughter Regan five decades earlier.”

The film is also the protagonist Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale, Hereditary) as Victor and Angela’s neighbor, and Jennifer Nettles (Harriet, The precious stones of the righteous) AND Norbert Leo Butz (Fosse/Verdon, Bloodline) as the parents of Katherine, Angela’s friend.

David Gordon Green wrote the screenplay with Peter Sattler (Field x-ray). The story comes from Scott Teems (Halloween kills), Danny McBride (Halloween Trilogy) and Green, based on characters created by William Peter Blatty.

The film will be released in theaters on Friday 6 October.