The Rite

About The Rite

Seminary student Michael Kovak reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, uncovering the devil’s reach even to one of the holiest places on Earth.

Mikael Håfström's The Rite is a 2011 horror thriller film. Anthony Hopkins appears as Father Lucas Trevant, Colin O'Donoghue as Michael Kovak, Alice Braga as Angeline, and Rutger Hauer as Istvan Kovak.

It runs 114 minutes and was released in January 2011. Written by Michael Petroni.

Shelv files it under church, priest, exorcism, and horrified. It streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads in the United States. It scores 6.1 out of 10 from 2,333 TMDB voters and it carries a PG-13 rating.

Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist, The Exorcist: Believer, and Exorcist: The Beginning make useful companions to The Rite, all filed under devil.