Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.
Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.
The film's central conflict, involving a supernatural cult threatening a child, is primarily an apolitical horror narrative focused on individual struggle against malevolent forces rather than promoting or critiquing specific political ideologies.
The film features a cast with some visible diversity, but it does not include explicit race or gender swaps of traditionally white roles. The narrative maintains a neutral or positive framing of traditional identities, focusing on a supernatural thriller plot without explicit DEI critiques.
The film "The Believers" does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Its plot is solely focused on supernatural horror elements involving a Santería cult, without any narrative threads related to queer identity or experiences.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film "The Believers" is an adaptation of the novel "The Evil That Men Do." A review of the main characters in both the source material and the film reveals no instances where a character's established gender was changed for the screen adaptation.
The 1987 film "The Believers" is an adaptation of the 1986 novel by Nicholas Conde. A review of the source material and the film's casting reveals no instances where a character's established race from the novel was changed for the screen adaptation.
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