Horror and family drama collide on a chaotic film set in "The Exorcism," a 2024 supernatural thriller directed by Joshua John Miller that folds real anxieties about addiction and estrangement into a story about a haunted production.
What is The Exorcism about?
Anthony Miller is a working actor trying to rebuild his career and his relationship with his teenage daughter Lee when he lands a role in a big-budget horror remake. As shooting progresses, Anthony's behavior grows erratic on set — outbursts, blackouts, moments of confusion that could be read as a relapse or as something the crew can't explain. Lee, who has already lived through her father's past struggles, is left trying to figure out which explanation is worse: that he's falling back into old patterns, or that whatever the production has stirred up on that set is real. The film uses the mechanics of a movie-within-a-movie — cameras, crew, a demanding director — to blur the line between performance and possession, keeping the audience guessing about how much of Anthony's unraveling is chemical, psychological, or something else entirely.
About the cast
Russell Crowe plays Anthony with a weary physicality that makes his character's instability believable on multiple levels, and Ryan Simpkins matches him as Lee, a daughter caught between hope and dread. Sam Worthington appears as the film-within-the-film's director, with Chloe Bailey, Adam Goldberg, David Hyde Pierce, and Adrian Pasdar rounding out the cast and crew of the production Anthony is trying to survive.
Context & significance
Director Joshua John Miller grew up around the horror genre and has spoken about drawing on real experiences with addiction in a family touched by the industry, which gives the father-daughter thread more weight than a typical possession premise. The film also plays with genre self-awareness, since its plot literally involves shooting a cursed horror movie.
Watching The Exorcism on Ktime
"The Exorcism" streams on K-Time with a Farsi dubbed version and Farsi subtitles available alongside the original English audio. Watching any title on K-Time requires a logged-in account, and the platform's Farsi-language interface is designed to make browsing and playback easy for Persian-speaking audiences.