Like a great many screen chillers these days, Deliver Us From Evil is supposedly based on a true story, and, as usual, you should probably take the claim with more than one huge pinch of salt. This is not at all a bad movie, and most horror fans should get some entertainment value from it, but it is overall a distinctly average one. Sadly, these hints are mostly drowned in the general mediocrity. Sadly, I was partly right to be wary, because Deliver Us From Evil didn’t work too well for me, though I say partly because there are some good aspects to the film and every now and again it shows hints of a much better one. This critic wouldn’t quite call himself one of those, as he wasn’t too impressed with Derrickson’s middling previous exorcism movie The Exorcism Of Emily Rose and the less said about his dire remake of the 1951 science-fiction classic The Day The Earth Stood Still the better! Critical reception to Deliver Us From Evil hasn’t been great and it doesn’t seem like it’s a Sinister-type hit either. Could these events be linked, and can Father Mendoza, who specialises in such occurences, be of some assistance to sceptical Ralph?…Įven as they were struggling to recover from those disturbing final scenes of Sinister, many horror fans across the world were probably really excited to see what its director Scott Derrickson would do next. After finding a dead baby, they go to a house where the husband has beaten the wife and has bleeding fingernails, a zoo where a woman has thrown her two year old son into the lion pit and appears to be possessed, and another house supposedly possessed, where they find a dead body. Troubled Detective Ralph Sarchie and his partner Butler patrol the streets at night, Ralph clearly being affected by all the human evil he has to deal with on a nightly basis.

A small group of soldiers are running through a war zone in the desert when they encounter a man-made underground cave with a Latin inscription on one of the walls and are possessed by some strange force.

REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Starring: Chris Coy, Édgar Ramírez, Eric Bana, Oliver Munn Written by: Paul Harris Boardman, Scott Derrickson

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