<body><![CDATA[It is more than 30 years since we saw Linda Blair as a demonic little girl utter the immortal words: “Your mother eats cucumber sandwiches in hell!” Okay, that’s not quite the line, but can this Exorcist prequel match William Friedkin’s 1973 masterpiece? Directed by Renny Harlin (The Long Kiss Goodnight), it features Fr Lankester Merrin (Stellan Skarsgård), a priest who has lost his faith after witnessing the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis against his parishioners. A former archeologist, he is invited to a dig in Kenya where a Christian Byzantine church has been unearthed in inexplicably pristine condition. But something even older lurks beneath this hallowed ground. The face of evil? The spirit of Satan? Or maybe those cucumber sandwiches?]]></body>