Perhaps unsurprisingly, Mark Kermode thinks The Exorcist: Believer is terrible – a film made by people who have seen The Exorcist but have forgotten (or failed to understand) its most important points.
The video is worth watching for a quick journey through all of the Exorcist films and a thorough trashing of everything bad about this new film. Kermode's wordplay is also quite funny and I laughed several times at his creative use of language.
"The guy who made those new Halloween sequels is about to make one to my movie, The Exorcist. That's right, my signature film is about to be extended by the man who made Pineapple Express. I don't want to be around when that happens. But if there's a spirit world, and I can come back, I plan to possess David Gordon Green and make his life a living hell."
– William Friedkin
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