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Mexican horror feature La Exorcista has begun filming, according to a report at Variety.

Directed by Adrían García Bogliano and starring María Evoli, the film is about Ofelia, a young nun recently arrived in the town of San Ramón, where she is forced to perform an exorcism on a pregnant woman. The possession looks like it’s ended – until Ofelia discovers that the evil presence is trying to return to the victim’s body. She will have to risk it all to prevent this from happening, even if this means exposing her weaknesses to the forces of evil and putting her own life at risk.

“‘La Exorcista’ is an enormous challenge due to its unique mixture of horror and adventure elements,” Bogliano told Variety. “It’s a project of distinctive scale and ambition within the Latin American genre cinema. I’m very excited for the trust that BTF has demonstrated for the top-quality horror film productions in Mexico.”

“Our film has a premise that contains an element that is rarely exploited and that breaks traditional genre conventions, for it focuses on a woman as the exorcist and not only as the possessed,” executive producer Guisa Koestinger noted.

The movie will see the return of veteran horror actress Norma Lazareno.