Ellen Burstyn hasn’t done an “Exorcist” since director William Friedkin’s 1973 smash. In 'The Exorcist: Believer' she's treated as callously as Jamie Lee Curtis’s character was in “Halloween Kills.” Can filmmaker David Gordon Green do better next time?
Director David Gordon Green’s weirdly cautious reboot of the “Exorcist” franchise, the first of a planned trilogy, comes with the name “The Exorcist: Believer.” And we do, insofar as believing in money is concerned. Green recently wrapped up his “Halloween” trilogy, which started well enough, and made a lot.
The adults include Victor’s sullen neighbor, a nurse and onetime Catholic novitiate, played by Ann Dowd; Katherine’s true-believer Baptist parents ; Victor’s Pentecostal friend Stuart ; and, from the sidelines, more or less, Ellen Burstyn as Chris MacNeil, the mother of poor Regan of the 1973 “Exorcist” that started all this. Burstyn hasn’t done an “Exorcist” since director William Friedkin’s 1973 smash, and the way the storyline treats her return as Chris, you hope the payday was worth it.
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