Director: Lee Daniels
Genre: Horror/
Thriller
Runtime: 112
minutes
Year: 2024
Starring: Andra Day,
Glenn Close, Mo’Nique, Anthony B. Jenkins, Calen mcLaughlin, Demi Singleton, Omar
Epps
Description: An Indiana
family discovers strange, demonic occurrences that convince them and their
community that the house is a portal to hell.
I WATCHED THIS MOVIE FOR MY 2025 MOVIE CHALLENGE
WEEK 8: A FILM WITH GLENN CLOSE
Review: Films about demonic presences and exorcisms. More often unsuccessful.
Where “The Exorcist” (1973) has introduced cinema audiences to this horror
subgenre, it know one has done it better since then. This also goes for “The
Deliverance”, because it’s not a very good movie.
“The Deliverance”, directed
by Lee Daniels, is based on the story of Latoyra Amons. He changed the names, details
and settings. Using a hefty dose of social realism, Daniels slowly allows the
arduous struggle for survival of Ebony and her family to degenerate into farcical
situations without a shred of realism.
Ebony struggles. Her absent husband
is a soldier in Iraq, and live=in mother Alberta is a cancer patient. She can
barely take care of her three children and her kids struggle with to connect
with their peers. Just having moved into a new home eventually makes everything
even worse, because some strange things are happening.
Why this movie was dropped
as a horror film, doesn’t get clear until the very end. Because “The
Deliverance” is never scary, and I scare easily when it comes to horror.
Daniels left it for the final 30 minutes, no exorcism cliché is shunned.
“The Deliverance” starts out
promising, especially with names like Glenn Close and Mo’Nique attached to the
project. But in the end the film is pretty dull and unscary for a horror movie,
trying to save it in the final act. When It’s already too late. Did not enjoy.
Rating: 2/ 5
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