Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist

Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist (2005) — watch online on iFILM this atmospheric horror drama directed by Paul Schrader, starring Stellan Skarsgård. The film fills in the backstory of Father Merrin, the priest at the centre of William Friedkin's 1973 classic.

A few years after the war ends, Merrin arrives in British East Africa — broken, faithless, looking for meaning in archaeology rather than God. A dig in the desert uncovers a Byzantine church buried intact for centuries, its crypt still bearing marks of something performed there long before Christianity arrived. A young priest, Father Francis, believes the excavation has freed something old and violent. Merrin watches a local boy change. He cannot ignore it much longer.

Schrader shot a slower, more introspective version than the studio-mandated reshoots that became Exorcist: The Beginning the same year — closer to theological meditation than creature feature. Stream Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist (2005) online on iFILM in full HD.