PREVIEW: My Best Friend’s Exorcism (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade), Amiah Miller (War for the Planet of the Apes), Cathy Ang (Over the Moon), Rachel Ogechi Kanu (film debut), Chris Lowell (Promising Young Woman), Clayton Royal Johnson (Surviving Lunch), Nathan Anderson (The Acquirer), Michael Wayne Foster (Scumbag), Cynthia Evans (Five Feet Apart)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Damon Thomas (film debut), director; Jenna Lamia (film debut), writer; Ellen Goldsmith-Vein (The Maze Runner), Christopher Landon (Paranormal Activity 3) and Jennifer Semler (The Forty-Year-Old Version), producers; Ryland Blackinton (film debut), composer; Rob Givens (All the Bright Places), cinematographer; Brad Turner (Patti Cake$), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In 1988, high school sophomore Abby (Fisher) notices that her lifelong best friend Gretchen (Miller) has begun acting strangely. An investigation leads Abby to believe that Gretchen has become possessed by a demon, and now she must do whatever she can to save Gretchen and her seemingly stable friendship…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

This high school take on the classic exorcism subgenre of horror is a funny, spooky, and sometimes even heartfelt look at friendship and its many, many demons.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

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