Single mother Madaline (Kristen Ruhlin) just wants to keep her daughter, Willow (Sophia Massa) safe, but she finds that difficult to do when she wakes up in restraints and a lot of questions on her mind in our exclusive clip from the new IFC Midnight movie Welcome to Mercy.

Welcome to Mercy will be released in select theaters and on VOD and digital platforms on November 2nd from IFC Midnight. You can watch our exclusive clip below, and we also have the film's official synopsis and trailer.

Synopsis: "A young woman struggles against the unholy forces that possess her in this terrifying occult thriller. After being stricken with stigmata, single mother Madaline (Kristen Ruhlin) is sent to a remote convent where nothing is what it seems and her friend August (Lily Newmark) is seemingly the only person she can trust. Together, they must confront the demons inside Madaline before she becomes the Antichrist."

Welcome to Mercy was directed by Tommy Bertelsen and stars Kristen Ruhlin and Lily Newmark. Kristen Ruhlin also wrote the film, which was produced by Cary Granat and composed by Queens of the Stone Age bassist Michael Shuman.

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    Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.

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