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Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe seems to have a sweet tooth for the horror genre, one which we never would have foreseen back in the halcyon days of his career – Romper Stomper, The Insider, L.A. Confidential, Gladiator, Master and Commander – when he bounced from one A-List production to another. Or maybe we just weren’t looking hard enough. After all, the Cinderella Man star had exercised his acting chops alongside a very young Leonardo DiCaprio in Sam Raimi’s oddball Western flick The Quick and the Dead back in 1995. Raimi, as any horror fan worth his or her salt can tell you, is the creative visionary behind the creepy The Evil Dead series of films and Crowe, always on point regarding knowing his film history, surely knew that going into his role as a burned out pastor in the Old West. But within the last few years especially, the 60 year-old New Zealand native has seemed quite taken with the rattling chains and things that go bump in the night set, as is evidenced by his turn as a priest in 2023’s The Pope’s Exorcist. And apparently that film only sated Crowe’s appetite for the eerie and the paranormal…
According to our William Peter Blatty aficionados over at Variety, the eagerly anticipated trailer for the new Russell Crowe motion picture The Exorcism officially dropped today and it’s a real lulu (Don’t believe us? Check it out right here with your own two peepers, Dear and Constant Reader–if you dare).
What’s intriguing about this new film is how closely it follows up The Pope’s Exorcist; apparently Crowe is a card-carrying William “The Exorcist” Friedkin fan if ever we saw one.
According to the vaunted and studio-approved summary for this John Miller-directed chiller, The Exorcism is a horror film as seen through the lens of a fictional Hollywood movie production. Crowe portrays an actor (Meta, anyone?) who begins to lose his marbles during the production of the scary flick. As for those closest to the Crowe character? Family and friends begin to fret that, rather than something supernatural at work, its possibly past addictions which are plaguing the beleaguered thespian.
The Exorcism stars Russell Crowe, Sam Worthington, Chloe Bailey, Adam Goldberg, David Hyde Pierce, Adrian Pasdar, Tracey Bonner and Josh Warren. It will be haunting – or is that possessing? – your local movie house this coming June 7!
