The Exorcist: Believer
The Exorcist : Believer ’s ending revolves around a last exorcism to save Katherine and Angela ’s spirit , and the event includes major revelations , death , and correct up for a novel trilogy of film . Picking up almost 50 age after the originalThe Exorcist , the sequel shifts the franchise ’s focus to Modern families whose lives are changed when Demons own their girl . This brings Victor ( Leslie Odom Jr. ) to findChris MacNeil ( Ellen Burstyn ) , hop she ’ll help the two families save the young daughter . finally , the girls ' portion is put in the hands of their parent and various spiritual leaders .
Unsurprisingly , The exorciser : Believerbuilds to a concluding dispossession that put the fate of Katherine ( Olivia O’Neill ) and Angela ( Lidya Jewett ) in the balance . This comes after Angela is limit to a mental innovation while Katherine ’s parents seek to help her at menage . Chris is absent from the final exorcism after Katherine stabs her in the eyes . Still , she encourages Victor to recruit masses from dissimilar background signal and spiritual belief to avail perform the terminal exorcism . The total story enwrap up rather neatly as there is noThe exorciser : Believerpost - credits conniption .
The Exorcist: Believer’s Final Exorcism & Death Choice Explained
The Demon Tricks The Parents Into Making A False Decision
The final exorcism inThe Exorcist : Believertakes position at Victor ’s house . Katherine and Angela are both take to the location after it is fitted for an exorcism . Victor is joined by Katherine ’s parent , the minister of religion at Katherine ’s church building , Victor ’s nursemaid neighbour who antecedently want to be a nun , a local beginning doctor , and another one of Victor ’s neighbors who conceive in God . The programme at once break down awry when the Catholic priest tells them he can not lead the exorcismas call , but he passes leadership to the nurse , Ann ( Ann Dowd ) .
The initial attempts to get the ogre out of the girl are unsuccessful . This lead to the demon revealing an impossible choice has to be made among the people in attendance ; they must choose which girl lives and which one dies . The demon say that only one of them will survive , which connect to a mortal decisiveness from Victor ’s past times . While Victor and Katherine ’s mom Miranda ( Jennifer Nettles ) agree that they can not and will not make that pick , Katherine ’s dad Tony ( Norbert Leo Butz ) panic and say the demon he chooses Katherine to live .
Director David Gordon Green go bad his muteness on the loser of The Exorcist : Believer and teases story contingent from his cancel sequels .
It appear as if Tony ’s determination is accepted by the demon , as Angela begin to be adrift in the air before collapsing on the ground with no blink of an eye and Katherine begin talking and looking like normal . This is where the demon ’s deceitful nature comes into play , as Angela begin to catch one’s breath again but Katherine snuff it . While attempts are made to redeem Katherine ’s life , she is taken away from the Earth of living . The death choice made by Tony inThe Exorcist : Believermirrors the one Victor made in his past tense , where who is chosen to live really dies .
Victor’s Decision To Save His Wife Not Angela Is Revealed
Victor Chose To Save His Wife Against Her Wishes
One of the big divine revelation in howThe exorciser : Believerends goes back to the movie ’s opening sequence , which results in the demise of Victor ’s married woman . An temblor in Haiti leaves his meaning wife with spartan injuries , and Victor is tell that he must make a difficult determination to pick out between keep back his married woman or unborn babe miss alive . His married woman ’s wish was for him to protect the minor at all price , and the fact that Angela is active after the 13 - year time leap indicates that he stick with through .
The revelation that Victor chose his married woman over Angela recontextualizes much of their relationship .
It is only during the exorcism that the demon reveals to everyone that Victor actually opt to save his wife instead of Angela , but the infant go the operation or else . The revelation that Victor chose his wife over Angela recontextualizes much of their relationship .
This is not something that Angela experience on her own , butit does explicate why Victor is so protective and watchful over her now . The Exorcist : Believer ’s scaryfocus means there is no meter for Victor and Angela to talk about the revelation after she gets ripe , but it would not be surprising if this arrange a strain on their relationship give out forward if she remembers .
Where Katherine Ends Up In The Exorcist: Believer
Katherine Ends Up Dragged To Hell
Angela surviving the dispossession leaves her with a clear fate as she returns to school , but where Katherine ends up inThe Exorcist : Believeris more tragical . The movie indicates that she is tear to Hell after her death . Katherine is evidence in the woods again before she get down to be pulled underwater by many hands . This looks like a visual histrionics of Katherine being taken to Hell by demons after she is tricked into being the forfeiture .
It is unreadable ifThe exorciser : Believeris the last the enfranchisement will show of Katherine or if her experience in Hell will factor into the sequel somehow .
Regan Returns In The Exorcist: Believer’s Final Scenes
Regan VIsits Her Mother In The Hospital
The biggest surprisal of the movie ’s ending is Linda Blair ’s return as Regan inThe exorciser : Believer . The picture makes multiple references towhat encounter to Regan afterThe Exorcist , but she is not an active part of the story . Her fate is instead left as a tarry mystery for most of the runtime . Thankfully , The Exorcist : Believerconfirms Regan is alive and well with a nimble cameo . Regan reunites with Chris in the infirmary during one of the final scene . The appearance is an indicant that looker could see more of Regan inThe exorciser : Deceiver .
Is The Exorcist: Believer’s Demon The Same As The Exorcist’s?
This Is A Never Before Seen Demon
One narrative point inThe Exorcist : Believerthat could create some confusion is the identity of the main daemon . It is never name , butreferences are made that the demon knows Chris and that she ’s run across this apparitional being before . Despite the implication thatThe exorciser : Believer ’s devil is Pazuzu , it has been confirmed that this is not the shell . Director David Gordon Green uncover as much during interview ( viaIGN ) , observe that the sequel has a new devil . However , he refuses to confirm the identity element of the new devil , andThe Exorcist : Believerdoes not confirm it either .
Did The Haitian Blessing Of Protection Save Angela’s Life?
The Blessing Remains Up To The VIewer To Decide
The fact that Angela ’s life story is saved inThe Exorcist : Believermight also have more to it than play the eye . During the final moments , flashes of the blessing of protection Angela ’s mom gets while she is still pregnant are show . This could stand for that the blessing is actually what saved Angela ’s life , making the parallels to Victor ’s death choice before a conjunction . This would mean that the blessing is strong enough to prevent the demon from killing Angela but still allow her to be possessed . It is up to each witness to make up one’s mind what they want to trust .
How The Exorcist: Believer Sets Up The Sequel, The Exorcist: Deceiver
Lindas Blair’s Return Was Supposed To Tease The Sequel
Considering Universal announcedThe exorciser : Believeras the starting line of a new trilogy , it is no surprisal that the conclusion leaves the threshold receptive for its sequel . The follow - up is confirmed to be calledThe Exorcist : Deceiver , which designate that there is more to what hearing witness here . The minister specifically calls the devil a beguiler after the initial proposal of the death choice , so that could be a sign of the zodiac that Katherine and Angela ’s fates are not quite as seal as believed .
The decision to work Linda Blair back for a flying scene is certainly meant to get audiences excited
In any typesetter’s case , there is no doubt that the fiend will return in some pattern , possibly pull on the grief Katherine ’s parents fight with . The Exorcist : cheater ’s storyis also sure to build on Chris and Regan ’s reunion too . The decision to take Linda Blair back for a spry scene is sure enough mean to get audience mad to have her and Ellen Burstyn trifle bigger roles in the continuation .
Both actresses had plenty of input onThe Exorcist : Believer , and while their function in the continuation are not yet officially substantiate , the intention is rather vindicated . The question then becomes ifThe exorciser : Deceiverwill fully shift the enfranchisement ’s focus back to the MacNeil family or if Victor , Angela , and others will remain prominently featured .
The Real Meaning Of The Exorcist: Believer’s Ending
Believing In Good Will Save A Person
The substance ofThe Exorcist : Believer ’s ending is one of Leslie Townes Hope and opinion . Despite it being a horror movie about the demonic possession of two young girls that features brutal deaths , The Exorcist : Believerleaves audience with a message that believing in the good , and even God , is what everyone needs . It is seemingly only after Victor believes the exorcism can work and reconnects with his daughter through his wife ’s scarf that her fate start out to change . If there is any doubt aboutThe exorciser : Believer ’s true meaning of hope and belief , the voice - over soliloquy provided by Ann Dowd makes it readable .
How The Exorcist: Believer Ending Was Received
Audiences Enjoyed It More Than Critics
critic pannedThe Exorcist : Believer , and it has a very miserable 22 % score on Rotten Tomatoes . However , the hearing Popcornmeter score is a high 58 % , although still mixed reviews . One audience reviewexplained what they conceive to be a job with the ending , writing , " It ’s a story filled with wasted potential drop . In the end , no one ’s faith is restored in the secret plan or in Gordon Green ’s timeworn handling of this subject field . " Film critic David Fear ofRolling Stoneagrees that the ending was not worthy of the dealership :
" The climactic showdown might have been borrowed from any Blumhouse movie over the past 10 years . The Catholicism that was so fundamental to the original film ’s crisis of faith is pushed aside in favor of a ragtag multireligious gang that hammer home its content of feeling in citizenry being as crucial as impression in God . And even that inherently interesting notion is reduced to a wonky language that poor Ann Dowd is forced to tell as one last montage wraps everything up . "
There was aRedditthreadstarted with one viewer who theorized that theThe Exorcist : Believer"decision " was another trick by the demon in a last grasp effort to get ahead , even in loss . The OP write , " So the demon is getting exorcize , right ? So my thought is that perchance it was start to slip , to be project out . But it want to win , so what does it do ? … maybe , in an effort to take at least one missy , the demon makes it vocalize like he ’s winning and offers the parents a choice . When the choice is made , it send them both down to hell … "
How The Exorcist: Believer Ending Compares Other Movies In The Franchise
The Demon Usually Loses To Men Of Faith In The Other Movies
The bountiful variety betweenExorcist : Believerand the originalExorcismmovies is that the latter is more of a traditional repugnance story . The originalExorcistisn’t even a horror pic ; it ’s a religious drama about a priest questioning his religion . That is a theme that recreate powerfully in the young plastic film , asExorcist : Believeris about a fatherwho questions his decisions and trust after his wife pop off years earlier . However , the late movie plays the horror straightforwardly and the original never lose focus of the theological themes .
The first movie has memorable mo , including the profanity and vomiting that Regan does , as well as the fear of death . However , Exorcist : Believeruses the tropes and genre trappings of any number of demonic possession movies . Regan was floor in the original moving picture , but the new movie is all about having the two possessed fille almost in a counting - by - numbers list of possession clichés .
However , the main difference of opinion with the firstExorcismmovie andExorcism : Believeris that the demon wins in the new movie and drags the youthful fille to Hell . In the first picture show , the demon is defeated and Regan ’s life returns to normal , or as normal as it could be . Even in the third pic , where Damiel Karras dies , he recover his control and ostracise the ogre as well . If there is a flick that compare , it isExorcist : The starting time , which also has a disappointing termination for the victim , but mostly those with faith at last gain .
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