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'The Excorist: Believer' Trailer: First Take

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Those who saw  Oppenheimer this past weekend were privy to the new David Gordon Green Exorcist trailer. Much like Oppenheimer's first trailer was "theaters only" for a few days, Universal played the same cards here. In a world where we're getting trailers for trailers, this move feels very late aughts and one that can really work in the film's favor.  As someone who has been Googling information weekly, I had no idea that this was indeed the trailer until the chilling piano came in --  A - E - B - E - G - A - E - C - E - D - E - B - CE ... only Williams' F and F# on Jaws and Carpenter's Halloween theme can rival the ivory-tickling horror that this does.  Polling a small sample size of my friends who saw it, the trailer seemed very effecting. Some were hyped, some closed their eyes and ears -- all very positive indications that the trailer did what it was supposed to do.  The reactions on Twitter  X, skewed positive as well.  For me, I'm pretty much al