Well, a different take on exorcism – The Catholic Rite of Exorcism meets the old horror premise of “reading passages of ancient book causes demons”, kind of thing. An 80’s horror trope attached to a theological “realism” taken into an over the top action movie style.

I get why you’re asking, but at this stage, the words of the logline itself don’t matter since it’s mere building blocks stage. Then once the story is more padded out, make the according changes to the logline.

Since last night, I have padded it out somewhat, changed characters, a little bit of the premise, and am now constructing the new logline. There is a circular plot to it that I’m trying to iron out so I can include it in the logline and as soon as I figure that out, the concerns will hopefully be addressed.

There was a whole bunch of exorcism movies a couple of years ago, excuse me if I don’t match the exact title for the right movie.

Anyway, to alleviate concerns of similarity, this is a “oh shit, that exorcism didn’t work, screw it, let’s try to raise the demon then fight it physically and see if that works” situation. The inciting incident of the exorcism itself would probably go for two pages.

So yes, it’s a radically different story than ‘The Exorcist’.

“It?s not just another horror flick exploiting the rite.” – if that were true, the word ‘exorcism’ wouldn’t be in the title. Unless written by John Grisham, nobody gives a shit about courtroom movies.

(An anthropologist, in some form, is always called as a witness or field expert in murder trials.)

The character of the priest demon hunter is now gone, by the way, because it didn’t feel “silly” enough for the story I want it to be. Look for a logline ‘update’ soon.