THE EXORCIST: MARTYRS Mike Flanagan reinvigorates the franchise – trailer

The Exorcist: Martyrs is a 2027 horror film about a determined rookie detective eager to establish herself who confronts a horrifying darkness that challenges her deepest convictions

The movie was written, directed and co-produced by Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House, The Fall of the House of Usher, Midnight Mass, and Carrie series, as well as the films Doctor Sleep, The Life of Chuck, Hush and Gerald’s Game) based on characters created by William Peter Blatty. It is the seventh installment in The Exorcist franchise. Jason Blum also produced through his Blumhouse–Atomic Monster banner with David Robinson through his Morgan Creek Entertainment studio.

The movie stars Scarlett Johansson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Diane Lane, Jacobi Jupe, Sasha Calle, Scoot McNairy, Gil Bellows, Laurence Fishburne and John Leguizamo.

Plot:
Thirteen years ago, New York City detective Julie Miller (Johansson) ended the terror reign of satanic serial killer Father Sunday. The case made her a hero, and she has 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 (Chiwetel Ejiofor), who heard Father Sunday’s final confession, and sharp rookie detective Gina Restrepo (Sasha Calle), Detective Miller discovers 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…

Soundtrack:
On October 9, 2026, Flanagan revealed that Mike Oldfield’s ‘Tubular Bells’ musical motif synonymous with the franchise since William Friedkin’s original The Exorcist film will be absent in Martyrs, a creative decision he had been fairly adamant about since the beginning of the project, as he felt that they “were surrendering some of their unique identity in favuor of trying to pull something that exists in amber to the Friedkin film and it didn’t feel right to reach for it”. The Newton Brothers, who have scored all of Flanagan’s film and television projects since Oculus (2013), composed the film’s score.

Release date:
The Exorcist: Martyrs is only in theaters March 12.

Trailer:

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