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Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English, University of Sydney

The Exorcist: Believer is a ‘retcon’ film - it imagines none of the sequels exist. This sequel shouldn’t exist, either

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Halloween season is here, bringing with it the promise of new horrors at the box office. This year it’s all about renewed cinematic horrors.

Alongside the tenth Saw film, there is The Exorcist: Believer, directed by David Gordon Green, the sixth Exorcist film and the first instalment of a new trilogy which cost US$400 million in worldwide rights alone.

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