'The Exorcist: Believer,' featuring 'Hamilton' star Leslie Odom Jr. and Ellen Burstyn, opens in theaters Friday.
Horror movies, particularly ones with religious overtones, are popular among Hispanic film fans.Take it on faith. The new "Exorcist" movie will draw big Hispanic audiences.
"The Exorcist: Believer," a sequel to the classic 1973 original, tells the story of two girls who disappear for three days in present-day Georgia and end up possessed by a demon, or demons, traumatizing their families and resuming an old battle that is rooted in the first movie. It stars Leslie Odom Jr. of "Hamilton" fame.and other premium formats. It's expected to pull in up to $30 million in its first weekend. While that should be enough to send it to No.
"Horror films are a communal experience for Latinos, especially in big cities with multiple cinemas located within blocks of one another," said R.C. Jara, a film writer who has been published on sites such asActor Max von Sydow plays a priest performing an exorcism in a scene from the film "The Exorcist." Linda Blair plays the possessed girl.in its own right. The Oscar-winning career of Mexican director Guillermo del Toro is full of macabre and fantastical tales.
"Even for modern Latinos who don't practice Brujeria or cleansings, Catholicism is rife with ritual. So there's this concept of being able to defeat the demon with ritual, a how-to-survive guidebook of sorts," Melanson said. "I believe very strongly in God and the power of the human soul," the late William Friedkin, who directed "The Exorcist,". "I also believe that they are unknowable. But the film, 'The Exorcist,' is primarily about the mystery of faith, the mystery of goodness, that mystery which is inexplicable, but it's there.
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