The Ritual Killer is a 2023 American action-thriller film directed by George Gallo and Francesco Cinquemani.

Unable to process the death of his daughter, and suicide of his wife, Clinton, Mississippi Homicide Detective Lucas Boyd embarks on a hunt for a serial killer who murders according to a brutal tribal ritual known as Muti.

The only person who can help Boyd is Dr. Mackles, an anthropologist and local college professor hiding an unspeakable secret.

Cole Hauser, Morgan Freeman, Peter Stormare, and Vernon Davis were announced as part of the cast.

[1] Filming began that same month in Jackson, Mississippi, with Murielle Hilaire and Julie Lott joining the cast.