In the first teaser for the new supernatural horror film The Pope’s Exorcist, Academy Award winner Russell Crowe engages in combat with both demons and the Vatican. Crowe stars in The Pope’s Exorcist, which was made available thanks to Sony Pictures Entertainment, as Father Gabriele Amorth, who is contacted after a little boy becomes possessed. Yet what Amorth learns is far more than just an exorcism. The Pope’s Exorcist’s introductory trailer can be seen below.
Russell Crowe, who portrayed Father Gabriele Amorth in the movies Gladiator and Unhinged, and his memoirs An Exorcist Tells His Story and An Exorcist: Further Tales served as the inspiration for the movie The Pope’s Exorcist. In The Pope’s Exorcist, Amorth examines a little boy’s horrific possession and unearths a long-running plot that the Vatican has fought mightily to keep secret.
When watching the teaser, one is immediately struck by Crowe’s accent, which hopefully won’t bring back memories of his bizarrely accented, scenery-chewing portrayal as Zeus in last year’s Marvel release Thor: Love and Thunder. Crowe plays Father Gabriele Amorth, a man charged with performing exorcisms, with a significantly more sober and serious air after you have shaken the sounds of Crowe’s Zeus from your mind (you might need to physically shake your head).
Father Amorth says that the majority of the time, those who think they are possessed actually require medical assistance and care. He is speaking to a High Table of his peers. Yet, 2% of people do have their lives abruptly ended by demons, or as Father Amorth puts it, by “evil.” Father Amorth seemed to be ready to learn just how horrible things really are.
The Pope’s Exorcist Comes from Overlord Director Julius Avery
Julius Avery, the Overlord director who previously made the critically acclaimed horror film Nazi Zombies in 2018, is the creator of The Pope’s Exorcist. The J. J. Abrams-produced film Overlord centres on a small squad of US soldiers who are deployed behind enemy lines the day before D-Day and discover horrifying Nazi experiments. Avery should be the ideal director to bring this eerie tale of exorcism to life on the big screen because he displays all the horror, blood, and gore that will undoubtedly be included in The Pope’s Exorcist.
Alongside Russell Crowe, the film also stars Laurel Marsden (Ms. Marvel), Daniel Zovatto (Station Eleven, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels), Alex Essoe (Midnight Mass, The Haunting of Bly Manor), Cornell S. John (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Gangs of London), newcomer Peter DeSouza-Feighoney, Ralph Ineson (The Witch, The
The Pope’s Exorcist, written by Chester Hastings, R. Dean McCreary, and Evan Spiliotopoulos, is set for release in the US on April 14 by Sony Pictures Releasing. For “Violent content, language, sexual references, and some nudity,” the horror film has been given a R rating.
