After the recent passing of legendary director William Friedkin, it’s interesting timing that The Exorcist: Believer is out this year, and while we all know there will be nothing quite like that brain-embedded original, this is quite the intense trailer for David Gordon Green’s newest horror pick-up and we’re sharing today with a new poster.

Gordon Green and his team seem to love the classic horror, while their take on Halloween and where to take it almost came off, there’s no doubt they’ve got the idea right by linking the legacy characters with new ones, and Ellen Burstyn is a huge coup – and this 3-minute look is genuinely disturbing, both visually and in its intent.

With a screenplay by Peter Sattler, The Exorcist: Believer is released on 13 October (they couldn’t resist) and takes on exactly 50 years. We follow the world of Leslie Odom, Jr.’s Victor Fielding, who has raised his daughter Angela (Lidya Jewett) on his own since his wife died some 12 years ago. But when she and new 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 an evil chain of events….

As you’ll see, it’s the first time since the 1973 film that Ellen Burstyn returns to her role as Chris MacNeil, and it also co-stars Ann Dowd, Jennifer Nettles, and Norbert Leo Butz.

The Exorcist: Believer comes to cinemas from 13 October