This week on Popcorn Premieres, host first-year student Logan Thompson welcomes guests Braedy Dilger and Steven Hoehl. The three tear into the latest film in the "Exorcist" franchise, "The Exorcist: Believer" (2023).

In addition to it being lackluster, the plot also had holes in terms of the demon's motives and background. It was unclear as to what the demon wished to achieve through the girls and if there was any real reasoning behind possessing them. While those questions might have been answered in a previous movie, it wouldn’t have hurt to clue in viewers who watched “The Exorcist: Believer” as a standalone movie. 

For decades, horror movies have replicated the hard work “The Exorcist” did in 1973 to produce one sleek but soulless thrill ride after another. Such is the case with “The Curse of La Llorona.”...