We love Ellen Burstyn; her performance as terrified mother Chris MacNeil in 1973’s The Exorcist is just one of many reasons why. But even the power of Burstyn couldn’t save 2023’s The Exorcist: Believer , a franchise entry that is now most memorable for the way it wasted one of horror’s most longed-for onscreen reunions, bringing Burstyn’s Chris and Linda Blair’s Regan back together.

Horror fans waited 50 years for that, through other Exorcist sequels that are both amazing and terrible , and the movie was such a disappointment that Believer director David Gordon Green’s planned follow-up was taken off the table . But Hollywood can’t let The Exorcist go, which is why Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist: Martyrs will be hitting theaters in 2027.

Burstyn, however, is over it. Speaking to Variety , she sounded ready to never talk about the franchise ever again.

“Isn’t there enough already of the Exorcist thing?…