With the Halloween season nearing its end, we are getting one last genre theater experience with Daniel Stamm’s second exorcism outing, Prey For the Devil. With his last addition, The Last Exorcism doing big at the box office, Lionsgate is hoping for a similar return with Prey For the Devil. I was lucky enough to sit down with director Daniel Stamm and stars Jacqueline Byers and Christian Navarro to talk about the film and the exorcism sub-genre as a whole.
Prey For the Devil has the following synopsis:
In response to a global rise in demonic possessions, the Catholic Church reopens exorcism schools to train priests in the Rite of Exorcism. On this spiritual battlefield, an unlikely warrior rises: a young nun, Sister Ann (Jacqueline Byers). Although nuns are forbidden to perform exorcisms, a professor (Colin Salmon) recognizes Sister Ann’s gifts and agrees to train her. Thrust onto the spiritual frontline with fellow student Father Dante (Christian Navarro), Sister Ann finds herself in a battle for the soul of a young girl (who Sister Ann believes is possessed by the same demon that tormented her own mother years ago), and soon realizes the Devil has her right where he wants her….and it wants in.
Prey for the Devil is being released by Lionsgate and is directed by Daniel Stamm with a story by Todd R. Jones and Earl Richey Jones, with the screenplay written by Robert Zappia. Starring Jacqueline Byers, Christian Navarro, Virginia Madsen, and Colin Salmony.
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Prey for the Devil arrives in theaters October 28, 2022 from Lionsgate