Exorcist the beginning (2004)

Exorcist: The Beginning plot

"Go back to where the horror began."

1944: Lankester Merrin, a priest, is forced by retreating Nazi soldiers to impose a life-and-death sentence on his parishioners. This event breaks his mind and destroys his faith. In 1947, Merrin, now an archaeologist, makes a startling discovery in the northwestern Turkana district of British East Africa. A Byzantine church is excavated completely intact. She was built and then buried. This discovery attracts the attention of the Archbishop in Nairobi who, through Major Granville, sends the young priest Francis to Derati in Turkana to keep an eye on Merrin's work.