By MICHAEL GINGOLD

The latest serial-slayer flick has got a black-magic murderer.

Screen Media will release THE RITUAL KILLER to theaters and VOD platforms March 10. Directed by George Gallo from a screenplay by Robert T. Bowersox, Jennifer Lemmon, Francesco Cinquemani, Giorgia Iannone, Luca Giliberto and Ferdinando Dell’Omo, it stars Cole Hauser, Morgan Freeman, Peter Stormare, Vernon Davis, Giuseppe Zeno and Murielle Hilaire. The synopsis: ‘THE RITUAL KILLER follows Detective Boyd [Hauser], who, unable to process the death of his daughter, embarks on the hunt for a serial killer who murders according to a brutal tribal ritual: Muti. The only person who can help Boyd is Professor Mackles [Freeman], an anthropologist who hides an unspeakable secret. The line between sanity and madness thins as Boyd goes deeper into the killer’s world.”