David Gordon Green Revives "The Exorcist" With Ellen Burstyn & Leslie Odom, Jr.

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As both an Exorcist and Halloween superfan, I have mixed feelings about Green applying his successful Halloween revival formula (revival, trilogy, return of major star, etc) to as prestigious a film as The Exorcist - the two franchises are apples and oranges. That being said, I never thought I'd see Ellen Burstyn return, and the last film entry in the series was dreadful. (William Peter Blatty's Exorcist III, OTOH, is excellent) So this is interesting.

The two-season Fox TV show with Geena Davis, Sharon Gless (in Burstyn's role), John Cho and Ben Daniels is also underrated and pretty good.