XYZ Movies has launched to featurettes for the exorcism horror movie The Ritual, which stars Al Pacino (The Satan’s Advocate) and Dan Stevens (Cuckoo, Abigail).
The film is alleged to be “primarily based on a real story.” The story “follows two monks — one questioning his religion (Stevens) and one reckoning with a troubled previous (Pacino) — who should put apart their variations to save lots of a possessed younger girl by way of a troublesome and harmful sequence of exorcisms.”
The Ritual is described as “an genuine portrayal of Emma Schmidt, an American girl whose demonic possession culminated in harrowing exorcisms. Her case stays essentially the most completely documented exorcism in American historical past.”
These movies concentrate on the precise story that impressed the movie. The unique Exorcist movie set the bar for these sorts of flicks, and since them many of the exorcism movies made are simply extra of the identical. This one seems to be prefer it could possibly be respectable, although.
XYZ’s companions mentioned: “David Midell’s grounded aesthetic is terrifying, genuine and leaves you extremely uneasy that these occasions really occurred.”
I hope that the film is nice and does one thing completely different and distinctive, however most exorcism movies are just about the identical. In the event you’ve seen one, you’ve seen all of them.
David Midell directs the film from a script written by Enrico Natale, and it additionally stars Ashley Greene (the Twilight franchise).
The Ritual is ready to be launched in theaters on April 18, 2025.
