
Más vale tarde que nunca. Tres décadas después de El exorcista, el terrorífico clásico de William Friedkin, llega ahora esta precuela, que reconstruye un asunto al que se alude brevemente en el original, el primer encuentro del padre Merrin con el demonio, en África. Filmada en los míticos estudios Cinecittà de Roma, la cinta ha contado con estupendos profesionales italianos, como el inigualable director de fotografía Vittorio Storaro. Stellan Skarsgård consigue sacarle partido a su personaje, haciendo incluso olvidar que en la cinta original lo interpretó Max Von Sydow. Y si bien, la cinta acumula tópicos del cine de terror, tiene un desarrollo efectista y carece de la escrupulosa documentación sobre la Iglesia católica del original, hará las delicias de los incondicionales del género.
Father Lankester Merrin (Stellan Skarsgare) is haunted by the choices he had to make at his parish in Holland during World War II. Someone killed a German soldier, and a Nazi officer had the people of Father Merrin's parish lined up in the street. He told Father Merrin, `that God is not here today,' and then he proved it by killing the people of his parish. Father Merrin's faith was tested that day, and he could no longer call himself a man of God. Merrin is in Cairo wandering the world in search of the truth in a bottle. He is hired by a collector to remove an ancient relic from a Christian Byzantine church that was discovered in Kenya. After the church is excavated from the sand, strange things begin to happen to the villagers, and the British soldiers. Merrin finds a hidden cave beneath the church, which ends up being the place where Evil was born on earth. Father Merrin finally finds truth.
"En lugar de sustos baratos, Schrader nos da una visión escalofriante de un buen sacerdote que teme que la bondad quizá no sea suficiente." (Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times)
"Instantáneamente olvidable" (Kevin Crust: Los Angeles Times)
"Elegantemente sombría, a veces lenta y ocasionalmente impenetrable precuela del taquillero film de 1973." (Stephen Holden: The New York Times)

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