Academy Award-nominee Scarlett Johansson fronts The Exorcist: Martyrs, an unsettling new chapter in one of the most storied titles in cinema history from genre auteur Mike Flanagan, the creator of acclaimed series The Haunting Of Hill House, The Fall Of The House Of Usher, Midnight Mass, and the upcoming Carrie, as well as the films Doctor Sleep, The Life Of Chuck, Hush, and Gerald's Game.
Thirteen years ago, New York City detective Julie Miller ended the terror reign of satanic serial killer Father Sunday. The case made her a hero, and she's thrown herself into her work ever since. Now a new killer scrawls her name in an altar boy's blood on the walls of a church crypt, dragging her back into the darkness she believed she had buried with him.
Aided by former prison chaplain Father William, who heard Father Sunday's final confession, and sharp rookie detective Gina Restrepo, Detective Miller will discover a filament linking a lineage of serial killers, from H.H. Holmes to the Zodiac, that could corrupt everything, and everyone, she loves with an evil that goes well beyond the mortal.
The top-flight cast includes Academy Award-nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor Academy, Award-nominee Diane Lane as Mary, Detective Miller's mother, who has moved in with her to help raise her grandson Max; Scoot McNairy as paroled convict Clay Silver; Emmy-winner Gil Bellows as Peter Nicks, a former acolyte of Father Sunday; Emmy and Tony-winning screen legend Laurence Fishburne as revered priest Father Nichol; and acclaimed star of The Odyssey, Emmy and Special Tony Award-winner John Leguizamo, in the most menacing role of his career as Father Sunday.
