Chris MacNeil Returns for Reboot

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but David Gordon Green and

Blumhouse

are reviving an iconic horror franchise with a fresh reboot-sequel saga that tells a new re-treading of classic ground but doesn’t quite cast away a history of messy sequels. Oh, and this time it’s

The Exorcist

rather than


Halloween


.

Blumhouse has just dropped the first

trailer

for

The Exorcist: Believer

,

Green’s new take

on the legendary horror film that brings its tale of demonic possession to the modern day. Set in the wake of two young girls going missing,

Believer

follow

s concerned parent Leslie Odom Jr. as he discovers that his daughter and her best friend haven’t exactly returned from their strange disappearance

entirely alone

.

The good news for him is that it turns out he knows someone who knows someone who has a great history with creepy kids being possessed by Pazuzu: none other than Chris MacNeil, as Ellen Burstyn reprises her role from the 1973 original.

Like we said, it’s all

very

modern

Halloween

trilogy—and

given the trajectory

of those movies, it’s going to be very interesting to see how doing a similar take for

The Exorcist

will play out. We’ll find out more when

The Exorcist: Believer

hits theaters in time for spooky season on October 13.

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