a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title tur

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng

a Classification number DVD 004258

a Personal name Renny Harlin

a Title Exorcist : The Beginning

h Medium DVD

a Place of publication, distribution, etc USA

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2004

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Morgan Creek Productions

a Extent 1 DVD

a Playing time 114 min.

a General note A new chapter of evil

a Summary, etc Years before Father Lancaster Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil's soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa. This is the tale of Father Merrin's initial battle with Pazuzu and the rediscovery of his faith.

a Summary, etc Father Lankester Merrin thinks that he has glimpsed the face of Evil. In the years following World War II, Merrin is relentlessly haunted by memories of the unspeakable brutality perpetrated against the innocent people of his parish during the War. In the wake of all the horror he has seen, both his faith in his fellow man and his faith in the Almighty have deserted him, and he can no longer honestly call himself a man of God. Merrin has traveled far from his native Holland in a desperate attempt to try to forget and escape all the evil that he had witnessed there. While currently in Cairo, Egypt, he is approached by a collector of rare antiquities and asked to participate in a British archeological excavation in the remote Turkana region of Kenya. They have unearthed something extraordinary and unusual...a Christian Byzantine church dating from the 5th century, long before Christianity arrived in East Africa, and in inexplicably perfect condition--like it had been buried immediately after it was completed. The collector wants Merrin, an Oxford-educated archeologist, to find an ancient relic hidden within the church before the British do. Interested, Merrin agrees to take the job. But beneath the church, something much older and malevolent sleeps, waiting to be awoken. When the archeologists start excavating, strange things begin occuring, and the local Turkana tribesmen who were hired to work refuse to enter the site. Things only get worse and worse, ultimately resulting in madness and death. Merrin watches helplessly as the atrocities of war are repeated against another innocent village--atrocities he had hoped and prayed never to see again. The blood of innocents flows freely on the East African plain, but the horror has only just begun. In the place where Evil was born, Merrin will finally see its true face.

a Language note Languages: English, Turkish

a Language note Subtitles: English, Turkish

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Action

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Adventure

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Horror

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Thriller

a Personal name Stellan Skarsgård

a Personal name Izabella Scorupco

a Personal name James D'Arcy

a Personal name Remy Sweeney

a Personal name Julian Wadham

a Personal name Andrew French

a Personal name Ralph Brown

a Personal name Ben Cross

a Personal name David Bradley

a Personal name Alan Ford

a Personal name Antonie Kamerling

a Personal name Eddie Osei

a Personal name Israel Aduramo

a Personal name Patrick O'Kane

a Personal name James Bellamy

u Uniform Resource Identifier http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204313

u Cover Images http://library.neu.edu.tr/uploaded-files/coverimages/tt0204313.jpg