The Exorcist: Believer is a 2023 American supernatural horror film directed by David Gordon Green, who co-wrote the screenplay with Peter Sattler from a story by Scott Teems, Danny McBride, and Green. The sixth installment in The Exorcist franchise, it serves as a new sequel to The Exorcist (1973).[5] The film stars Leslie Odom Jr., Lidya Jewett, Olivia O‘Neill in her film debut, Jennifer Nettles, Norbert Leo Butz and Ann Dowd, along with Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair reprising their roles from the original film. Its plot follows a photographer who must confront the nadir of evil when his daughter and her best friend are possessed.
In Haiti, photographer Victor Fielding and his pregnant wife Sorenne, blessed by a voodoo practitioner, are on their honeymoon until a massive earthquake ensues. Sorenne is gravely injured; she tells Victor to protect their unborn daughter, Angela. Paramedics tell Victor he must choose to save either his wife or his child.
Thirteen years later, Victor has lost his faith in God since Sorenne’s death, while raising Angela on his own in Georgia. One day after school, Angela ventures into the woods with her Baptist best friend Katherine to perform a séance in an attempt to contact Angela’s mother. Victor realizes his daughter is missing and contacts Katherine’s parents, Miranda and Tony, as a three-day manhunt ensues.