{"id":357626,"date":"2026-07-01T19:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357626\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T19:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:14:15","slug":"kevin-bacon-to-play-exorcist-in-horror-film-summoner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357626\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Bacon to play exorcist in horror film ‘Summoner’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Bacon<\/a> is being summoned back to horror \u2014 this time as an exorcist.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sharon resident Kevin Bacon is set to star in the upcoming Amazon MGM horror film \u201cSummoner,\u201d according to Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bacon will portray Jefferson Haddock, an exorcist who is called to an isolated witness-protection property to deal with a terrifying demon, accidentally unleashing a force that threatens to destroy him and everything around him.<\/p>\n

The movie will be written and directed by Jeremy Slater, whose credits include the film \u201cMortal Kombat II\u201d and the Netflix series \u201cThe Umbrella Academy.\u201d<\/p>\n

This won\u2019t be Bacon\u2019s first horror role. He has appeared in films including \u201cFriday the 13th,\u201d \u201cFlatliners,\u201d \u201cStir of Echoes\u201d and \u201cHollow Man.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bacon’s connection to the supernatural goes beyond just his movies; he told a story involving an allegedly haunted Connecticut property<\/a>. During an episode of the podcast \u201cLiterally! With Rob Lowe,\u201d Bacon said he had to destroy an abandoned house on land he purchased near his Connecticut farm because the previous owner believed the house was haunted. Bacon said the owner\u2019s story involved a Native American who had been killed by a colonial soldier in the 1700s. Bacon currently has a farm in Sharon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cSummoner\u201d is expected to begin filming this fall, and no release date has been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Bacon is being summoned back to horror \u2014 this time as an exorcist.\u00a0 Sharon resident Kevin Bacon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[86570,132,134,133,127085],"class_list":["post-357626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-all-daily-sites","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-ctinsider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}