Jennifer Nettles will make her horror film debut this October by starring in the latest installment of the Exorcist film series, The Exorcist: Believer. Fans can catch the first glimpse of the movie in a new trailer released this week.
The trailer reveals a story that begins simply enough, with two girls walking into school together. However, the girls soon go missing, and their concerned parents (Nettles and Leslie Odom Jr.) look for them. The trailer reveals that the girls are found three days later, but they begin acting strange upon their return.
The two continue to spiral into darkness, and their parents call on Ellen Burstyn's Chris MacNeil, who, in the original 1973 movie, had a possessed daughter of her own. The rest of the trailer shows the truly horrifying state of the girls' possession.
The movie's official logline describes the film as such: "Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding (Leslie Odom, Jr.) has raised their daughter, Angela (Lidya Jewett) on his own. But when Angela and her friend Katherine (Olivia Marcum), disappear in the woods, only to return three days later with no memory of what happened to them, it unleashes a chain of events that will force Victor to confront the nadir of evil and, in his terror and desperation, seek out the only person alive who has witnessed anything like it before: Chris MacNeil."
Nettles also stars alongside Ann Dowd, Okwui Okpokwasili and Raphael Sbarge in the film.
The Exorcist: Believer is the sixth movie in the Exorcist series. The original, based on William Peter Blatty's novel of the same name, was released in 1973. A classic in the horror genre, the original movie shocked audiences and earned a best picture nomination at the Oscars as well as awards for best adapted screenplay and best sound.
The Exorcist: Believer will begin a new trilogy in the film series. A sequel, The Exorcist: Deceiver, is already set for release on April 18, 2025, per Variety.
