17/08/2024
The Exorcism
In New York City, an actor is inspecting the set of a supernatural horror film, The Georgetown Project (resembling The Exorcist), alone; strange things happen, and he is mysteriously killed.
The director taps aging, alcoholic actor Anthony Miller to star as a priest in the film. Anthony's daughter Lee, suspended from high school, is his personal assistant on the film; both are recovering from her mother's death. Miller's background as a sexual abuse victim comes out, and he has difficulty on the film set and off, often having flashbacks to his molestation. The director discusses replacing him, and derides Miller's troubled past and lost faith. Lee becomes increasingly concerned about her father's bizarre behavior, including cutting himself, sleepwalking, and refusing to take his medication.
Meanwhile, Lee makes friends with Blake, a popular TV actress who plays a possessed girl in the film. The two of them consult Father Conor, a Catholic priest and psychiatrist who is a consultant for the film, about Miller's frightening behavior. Miller acts on set as if possessed, contorting his body and slamming his head into a table. He is replaced by Joe, who was playing another priest character. When alone on set, Joe sees a phantom of Miller and is killed by flying glass from a mirror. At home, Miller suddenly attacks Lee, then jumps out a window.
Father Conor decides to perform an exorcism during filming of the set. Lee finds him and Blake paralyzed in front of the now-possessed Miller, who ridicules Lee's attempts to use a prayer book. She manages to burn him with a crucifix, which snaps Conor and Blake out of paralysis. Conor randomly gives up and offers himself to the demon, telling the girls to run. After Conor is possessed, Miller is roused to stab him with the crucifix, and to use the prayer book's exorcism rite sincerely as Lee also joins in; Conor catches on fire and the demon is defeated.
Later on, in another location, Miller reminisces how things have improved between him and his daughter. Lee soon begins work on a film script.
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