Two girls vanish into the woods, come back three days later remembering nothing, and one father's search for answers leads him straight to Chris MacNeil in The Exorcist: Believer.
What is The Exorcist: Believer about?
The Exorcist: Believer, directed by David Gordon Green, opens with a disappearance that unsettles a small community: two young girls go missing in the woods and resurface three days afterward with no memory of what happened to them. As the strange effects of that missing time begin to surface, the father of one girl turns to Chris MacNeil, a woman permanently changed by events that struck her own daughter fifty years earlier. Leslie Odom Jr. leads the film as the searching father, with Lidya Jewett and Olivia Marcum as the two girls at the center of the mystery. Jennifer Nettles, Norbert Leo Butz, Raphael Sbarge, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Danny McCarthy round out a cast caught between ordinary faith and something the film treats as far older than any one family. Released in 2023 and running 111 minutes, it extends a horror lineage stretching back exactly fifty years within its own story.
About the cast
Leslie Odom Jr. carries the film as a father pulled into events beyond his understanding, opposite young performers Lidya Jewett and Olivia Marcum as the two missing girls. Jennifer Nettles, Norbert Leo Butz, Raphael Sbarge, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Danny McCarthy fill out the surrounding cast of neighbors, family, and those drawn into the aftermath.
Context & significance
The Exorcist: Believer arrived in 2023 as a direct continuation of a horror lineage that began exactly half a century earlier, with David Gordon Green directing. The film leans on the idea of a single family's trauma echoing across five decades, using that distance rather than a fresh set of rules to build its dread. At 111 minutes, it keeps its focus on two households pulled into the same unresolved history.
Watching The Exorcist: Believer on Ktime
The Exorcist: Believer streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles available, so horror fans can watch in whichever format suits them. The film's page is free to read for any visitor; a K-Time account login is all that is needed to stream the movie itself, on a service built around a Farsi-first experience for the Iranian diaspora.