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Posted: 2020-08-31T19:37:32Z | Updated: 2021-09-16T19:14:21Z

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Episode 3 of Lovecraft Country.

Jurnee Smollett sure can take you there.

As Letitia Lewis, in Episode 3 of HBOs epic horror drama Lovecraft Country, the 33-year-old actor pulls the audience into a haunting yet soul-stirring exorcism, where sorrow and anger wash over the body, conjuring up the pain of the past and placing it right at your feet.

This engrossing two-minute scene comes in the final act of Holy Ghost and plays out to the driving beat of Shirley Caesars Satan, Were Going To Tear Your Kingdom Down. With the help of an exorcist, Letitia and Atticus (Jonathan Majors) confront the souls of eight Black residents who had gone missing on the South Side of Chicago and their killer.

Hiram Epstein, a white scientist, had been experimenting on human bodies in the Winthrop House, a straight-up scary Victorian home on Chicagos North Side. Those spirits faces bloodied, bodies mangled were stuck in the house and had been awakened when Leti and her sister Ruby (Wunmi Mosaku) decided to turn the ramshackle building into a boarding house for aspiring artists.