Spanish director Adrían García Bogliano is returning to horror with La Exorcista, a new exorcism film that’s currently filming in Mexico City, writes Variety.
María Evoli stars as Ofelia, a young nun who recently arrived in the town of San Ramón, where she is forced to perform an exorcism on a pregnant woman.
“The possession looks like it’s ended – until Ofelia discovers that the evil presence is trying to return to the victim’s body. She will have to risk it all to prevent this from happening, even if this means exposing her weaknesses to the forces of evil and putting her own life at risk.”
Says executive producer Pablo Guisa Koestinger of the plot: “Our film has a premise that contains an element that is rarely exploited and that breaks traditional genre conventions, for it focuses on a woman as the exorcist and not only as the possessed.”
La Exorcista co-stars Pilar Santacruz (“Luis Miguel: The Series”), Ramón Medina (“The Inmate”) and Julio Bracho (“Sitiados: Mexico”) as well as a cast of renowned performers such as Salvador Sánchez (“Angel de Fuego”), Juan Carlos Colombo (“Herod’s Law”), and Tina Romero (“Las Grandes Aguas”).
The site calls Bogliano “a founding father of the modern Argentine horror scene”, detailing his impressive body of work that includes Here Comes The Devil (2012), Night of the Wolf (2014), and Juega Conmigo (2021). He also directed the werewolf thriller Late Phases for Dark Sky Films.