Director: Joshua John Miller
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.
Cast & crew
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.
Where & how to watch
"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.