Ashley Greene, Patricia Heaton and Abigail Cowen also appear in David Midell's entry in the overdone subgenre.

Dan Stevens also stars in David Midell’s earnest but tepid dramatization of a purported demonic possession case in 1928 Iowa.

Al Pacino was too freaked out to see "The Exorcist," but stars with Dan Stevens in "The Ritual," a horror movie based on a ...

There’s also often a crossover with cultist horror like 2017's The Ritual; those isolated communities usually end up being ...

Al Pacino reveals he's never seen The Exorcist despite playing one in his new movie, The Ritual. The classic 1973 horror film ...

Al Pacino speaks in an exaggerated accent and Dan Stevens looks overly concerned in this movie directed by David Midell.

Despite a solid cast including Al Pacino and Dan Stevens, the conventional possession antics of The Ritual aren't especially ...

Midell also resorts to so many reaction shots of a horrified-looking Stevens that it’s hard to tell whether the talented actor is truly in the moment or simply regretting his career choices.

This middling approach seems to be the nature of The Ritual. There’s nothing about it that’s obtrusively bad, but there’s ...

The Ritual's earnest attempt at a serious horror-drama that’s undermined by some distracting stylistic choices.

So begins “ The Ritual ,” David Middel’s excruciatingly generic horror effort that forces us to wonder whether the exorcism ...

THE RITUAL is a horror movie inspired by Father Joseph Steiger’s notes taken during an exorcism he helped perform in 1928.