The Exorcist: Deceiver Release Date Set for Second Chapter in Horror Trilogy

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The Exorcist: Deceiver Release Date Set for Second Chapter in Horror Trilogy

Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions have announced The Exorcist: Deceiver’s release date ahead of the release of The Exorcist: Believer.

What is The Exorcist: Deceiver’s release date?

The Exorcist: Deceiver will release in theaters on Easter weekend 2025, debuting on April 18, 2025. It will be a sequel to this October’s The Exorcist: Believer, serving as the second chapter in a planned horror trilogy of The Exorcist movies.

The Exorcist: Believer is a direct sequel to the original horror feature, which was adapted from William Peter Blatty’s novel. Halloween’s David Gordon Green directing from a screenplay he is co-writing with Scott Teems, Danny McBride, and Peter Sattler.

Oscar-winner Ellen Burstyn is returning to the franchise for the upcoming films, reprising her iconic role as Chris MacNeil over 40 years since the original film debuted in 1973, for which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Joining Burstyn are Oscar nominee Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton, One Night in Miami), Emmy winner Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale), Raphael Sbarge (Once Upon a Time), Jennifer Nettles (Harriet), and newcomers Lidya Jewett and Olivia Marcum.

The sequel is produced by Jason Blum, David Robinson, and James Robinson, with Green, McBride, Couper Samuelson, and Stephanie Allain executive producing. It is a co-production between Blumhouse and Morgan Creek Production, with Ryan Turek overseeing the project on behalf of Blumhouse.

“Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding has raised their daughter, Angela on his own,” reads the film’s synopsis. “But when Angela and her friend Katherine (newcomer Olivia Marcum), disappear in the woods, only to return three days later with no memory of what happened to them, it unleashes a chain of events that will force Victor to confront the nadir of evil and, in his terror and desperation, seek out the only person alive who has witnessed anything like it before: Chris MacNeil.”