The Exorcism of God is a 2021 supernatural horror film directed and co-written by Alejandro Hidalgo and starring Will Beinbrink, María Gabriela de Faría, and Joseph Marcell.

Plot
Peter Williams, an American priest working in Mexico, is possessed during an exorcism and ends up committing a terrible act. Eighteen years later, the consequences of his sin come back to haunt him, unleashing the greatest battle within.

Cast

 Will Beinbrink as Father Peter Williams
 María Gabriela de Faría as  Esperanza
 Joseph Marcell as Father Michael Lewis
 Irán Castillo as Magali
 Hector Kotsifakis as Dr. Nelson
 Alfredo Herrera as Possessed Jesus
 Nuria Gil	as	Reporter

Release
The Exorcism of God premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 27, 2021. That same day, Saban Films finalized a deal to distribute the film in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Ireland, and South Africa. Saban Films released the film concurrently in theaters, on demand, and digital on March 11, 2022.

Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 57% based on 14 reviews, with an average rating of 5.10/10. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 41 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Meagan Navarro of Bloody Disgusting praised some of the creative scares but felt that the film relies on the genre's tropes and that the lead character was flat with no growth. Tracy Palmer of Signal Horizon found herself "freaked out, grossed out, and laughing" after her screening. She praised the film's jump-scares, gleeful violence, and design and disturbing imagery of the film's demons, as well as the film's "thought-out and fast-paced" plot, concluding that the film is a "fun movie full of lasting imagery and just enough cheese with the gore to make it palatable." 

Justine Smith of RogerEbert.com awarded the film two and a half stars out of four, also noting the "aesthetic and narrative" cliches of the genre, but praised the film's plot and characters as "thought-out and progress logically" and the film's sufficient originality to distinguish it from similar films. Phil Hoad of The Guardian awarded the film three stars out of five, stating that the film is "bombastic but occasionally surprising." He also noted the film falling back on tired tropes and "daft" horror mechanics and concluded by calling the film a "big, gaudy, overblown altarpiece of a horror movie."

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2021 films
2021 horror films
2021 horror thriller films
American horror thriller films
American legal drama films
American supernatural drama films
American supernatural horror films
Demons in film
The Devil in film
American horror drama films
Legal horror films
Religious horror films
Mexican horror thriller films
2020s English-language films
2020s American films