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Texas Monthly – Leave ‘The Exorcist’ Alone

Texas Monthly – Leave ‘The Exorcist’ Alone

Posted on October 5, 2023

Few filmmakers have lowered themselves to such great depths as David Gordon Green. The Richardson-bred director earned rapturous early acclaim for his naturalistic, acutely observed human dramas. But beginning with 2018’s Halloween, he has lately taken such a hard swerve into bland, journeyman franchise work, it verges on defiant artistic choice. Certainly the success of Halloween has opened new doors for Green, even if they all lead into the same cursed rooms: Halloween was quickly followed by two diminishing-returns sequels, along with an HBO deal to similarly revive the Hellraiser series. And now it’s conjured up The Exorcist: Believer, an equally superfluous rehash of one of horror’s most venerated properties—dismayingly, the first of a planned trilogy that promises to keep Green plugging away through at…

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