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Bloody First Look at Argentine Exorcism Horror Movie ‘Deus Irae’

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The debut feature of Argentine filmmaker Pedro Cristiani is titled Deus Irae, and Deadline has shared a bloody first-look image from the upcoming horror movie today (seen above).

XYZ Films just recently acquired the North American sales rights to Deus Irae, while Deadline reports this morning that Reel Suspects has taken world sales rights on the movie.

Deus Irea follows “Father Javier, a priest living a fractured existence. On one side, he assists families who claim to have witnessed miracles, and on the other he belongs to a trio of excommunicated priests who hunt the possessed down to exorcize them under their own terms: with Bibles, fire and shotguns.”

“But when the only way to crush Evil is by becoming something even worse, he must question how much of his own humanity — or sanity — he’s willing to sacrifice in order to defeat the Devil.”

The film is based on the same-titled short film.

 “The goal of Deus Irae was to develop a completely independent film that pushed the visual and storytelling boundaries like no genre feature dared to do,” Cristiani says. “But in the six years that took to bring it to completion, it became so much more: a volatile, highly stylized, fearless film.”

“We first discovered the immensely talented Pedro Cristiani when the short film version of Deus Irae was traveling the global festival circuit and it has been an absolute thrill to work with him on bringing his vision for the full feature to the world,” said XYZ Films’ Todd Brown. “Pedro is an immense talent and Deus Irae is a totally unique work.”

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“Daywalkers Make It Look Easy” – Wesley Snipes Comments on Marvel’s ‘Blade’ Troubles

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It has now been 26 years since Wesley Snipes first played Marvel’s vampire slayer Blade on the big screen, and 20 years since the last time he played the character in Blade: Trinity. The role is next being taken over by Mahershala Ali in Marvel’s upcoming reboot movie, but at this point we’re starting to wonder if we’re ever going to meet Ali’s Blade on the big screen.

It’s no secret that the brand new Blade movie has been bumped all over the release calendar the last couple years, currently set for theatrical release on November 7, 2025. But the movie is without a director at the moment, with Yann Demange (“Lovecraft Country”) departing the project in the wake of Bassam Tariq (Mogul Mowgli) exiting the film back in 2022.

Taking to Twitter over the weekend, Wesley Snipes offered his own thoughts on the behind the scenes struggles to bring his most iconic big screen character back to the big screen.

Snipes tweets, “Blade, lordylordylordy 👀 folks still lookin for the secret sauce, ridin snowmobiles in traffic, kinda rough. Daywalkers make it look easy, don’t they?”

Marvel’s Blade reboot starring Mahershala Ali was originally announced at San Diego Comic-Con back in 2019. Since then, creative differences have repeatedly delayed the project.

At this time, Mia Goth (X, Pearl, MaXXXine) is also on board to star.

Stay tuned for more as we learn it.

The vampire-slaying character was created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan, introduced in July 1973’s The Tomb of Dracula #10. Wesley Snipes played Blade across three films from 1998 through 2004, and he was played by Sticky Fingaz in a short-lived TV series.

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