10 Horror Movie Characters Punished For Not Believing

For The Last Exorcism's Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian), belief is something he struggles to have in regards to several things.

This reverend lost his faith in religion after his son was born ill, and since then he's made a career from carrying out sham exorcisms on people who claim to be possessed but actually aren't. But when Father Marcus comes across the case of Nell Sweetzer (Ashley Bell), he's in for a rude awakening.

After Nell's father contacts Marcus with concerns that his daughter is possessed and has slaughtered his livestock, Cotton and a documentary film crew head out to the Sweetzer farm to showcase how the pregnant Nell's issues are psychological or fabricated rather than the result of possession.

As The Last Exorcism progresses, it's revealed that Nell is indeed plagued by a demon and that the majority of her local town are involved in a cult - which results in Ashley Bell's character giving birth to some inhuman creature in order to please them.

By the time Father Marcus realises this, it's too late, with him swarmed by this cult while he begs for assistance from a god he has long stopped believing in.