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The Pickleball Exorcist (2025)
Chaos grips a small town when a satanically possessed pickle baller (Mike Hartsfield) goes on a murderous rampage. An exorcist (Chris Lohman), who moonlights as a police offer, is called into action to end this reign of terror. Meanwhile, nothing can stop the deranged pickle baller as he takes his orders from a racquet that might be the embodiment of Satan. Calling on everything from the natural to the supernatural, the exorcist soon realizes he's going to have to literally steel himself against the murderous pickle baller in a battle for the fate of humanity!
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Chaos grips a small town when a satanically possessed pickle baller (Mike Hartsfield) goes on a murderous rampage. An exorcist (Chris Lohman), who moonlights as a police offer, is called into action to end this reign of terror. Meanwhile, nothing can stop the deranged pickle baller as he takes his orders from a racquet that might be the embodiment of Satan. Calling on everything from the natural to the supernatural, the exorcist soon realizes he's going to have to literally steel himself against the murderous pickle baller in a battle for the fate of humanity!
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Genre:Horror, Comedy
Written By:Evan Jacobs
In Theaters:2/1/2025
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Runtime:75 minutes
Studio:Anhedenia Films, SRS Cinema
Cast
Evan Jacobs
Director
Mike Hartsfield
Jed
Chris Lohman
Earnest Christianson
Roy Englebrecht
Chief Racquet
Paul Bradford
Newscaster
Jeffrey Hylton
Newscaster
Rudy Ledbetter
Newscaster
Brandon Farmer
Virtual Exorcist
Lucas Nyhus
Pickleball Bro #1
Ben Van Der Meer
Pickleball Bro #2
Jacob A. Varney
Possessed Guy
Arsenic Nic
Pickleball Victim
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