exorcist: the beginning (2004)

in the years following the second world war, father lankester merrin is haunted by memories of the unspeakable violence committed against his innocent parishioners. in a desperate attempt to escape the horrors he witnessed in holland, his homeland, merrin leaves the country. while passing through cairo he is approached by a collector of antiquities who offers him to participate in an archaeological excavation in turkana, a remote region of kenya. here a byzantine christian church was unearthed in excellent condition, as if it had been buried the same day as the building. the collector wants merrin to find an ancient relic hidden inside the church before it is discovered by the british. but under the church something much more ancient is sleeping, waiting to be awakened.