On November 6, 2019, it was announced that Guy Pearce signed on to play the lead role in the film.

[3] On January 27, 2020, Stephen Lang, Keith David, Robin Bartlett, Brady Jenness and Chris Galust joined the cast of the film.

[6] On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 14%, based on reviews from 14 critics, with an average score of 4.10/10.

[8] Owen Gleiberman of Variety wrote: "The movie is diverting enough when it flirts with clerical politics, and that made me think it might be cool to make an exorcist film that dramatized the true-life ins and outs of the Catholic Church’s relationship to exorcism.

But The Seventh Day, having established Father Peter as a new kind of exorcist renegade, soon gets down to business as usual.