Father Gabriele Amorth, Chief Exorcist of the Vatican, investigates a young boy's terrifying possession and ends up uncovering a centuries-old conspiracy the Vatican has desperately tried to keep hidden.
Russell Crowe
Father Gabriele Amorth
Daniel Zovatto
Father Esquibel
Alex Essoe
Julia
Peter DeSouza-Feighoney
Henry
Ralph Ineson
Asmodeus (voice)
Laurel Marsden
Amy
Franco Nero
The Pope
Ryan O'Grady
Cardinal Sullivan
Bianca Bardoe
Rosaria
Carrie Munro
Adella
Cornell John
Bishop Lumumba
Santi Bayón
Roberto Vasquez IV (Henry's Dad)
Paloma Bloyd
Interpreter
Alessandro Gruttadauria
Father Gianni
River Hawkins
Enzo / Halphas
Jordi Collet
Carlos
Marc Velasco
Worker 1
Edward Harper-Jones
Young Amorth
Matthew Sim
Cardinal Abato
Victor Solé
Spanish Doctor
Tom Bonington
Vatican Doctor
Andrea Dugoni
Drunken Farmer
Ed White
Nazi Soldier
Laila Barwick
Daughter (Farmhouse)
Gennaro Diana
Italian Priest
Pablo Raybould
Bishop Barbuto
Derek Carroll
Doctor (uncredited)
Ella Cannon
Partisan #2 (uncredited)
Amey De Souza
Villager (uncredited)
Director
Julius Avery
Book
Gabriele Amorth
Screenplay
Evan Spiliotopoulos
Screenplay, Screenstory
Michael Petroni
Screenstory
R. Dean McCreary
Screenstory
Chester Hastings
April 13, 2023
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Based on a real character from the murkier side of quite recent Vatican operations, Russell Crowe dons his cassock and travels to a remote abbey in Spain where his meets with "Fr. Esquibel" (Daniel Zovatto). Why? Well it seems that a young boy is being possessed by a singularly nasty demon. Now Fr. Amorth is not unused to these scenarios and is also aware that the vast majority of these situations have nothing to do with satanic practices and more to do with mental health issues. Quickly, though, he realises that this is a serious and potentially deadly demonisation and both he and his colleague must discover what went on at this place and just who their violent foe is, before they can have any hope of casting it back into the shadows. That's the plot, and to be fair Crowe actually plays his character with a bit of charisma, but the rest of this is the same old loudly scored, visual effects feast with plenty of routine dramatic scenes: screaming, eye-popping, ceiling climbing, bodies and holy water thrown about the place and this one even has a bit of the Spanish Inquisition thrown in for added authenticity. It's not that is terrible - it isn't; it is just all so very derivative. Just because the exorcist was real doesn't actually make this film any different from an whole spate of other similar films that have the same beginning, middle, and end... It will do fine on the television around Halloween, but the cinema adds little to the presentation. It's nice to see that Franco Nero is still making films, but otherwise this is adequate, but nothing more.