Mo'Nique wearing wired earbuds and looking up at something off-screen while a policeman stands behind her in The Deliverance.
The Big Picture Lee Daniels’ tradition of telling vulnerable Black stories continues with his first directorial horror project, The Deliverance. Writers David Coggeshall and Elijah Bynum channel exorcism titles from David Gordon Green's The Exorcist: Believer to James Wan's The Conjuring, maybe too literally.
Release Date August 30, 2024 Director Lee Daniels Cast Andra Day , Glenn Close , Caleb McLaughlin , Demi Singleton , Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor , Tasha Smith , Omar Epps , Christina Wren Main Genre Horror Writers Elijah Bynum , David Coggeshall , Lee Daniels What Is 'The Deliverance' About? The Deliverance is loosely based on Latoya Ammons' reported paranormal encounters in Gary, Indiana.
Daniels employs a throughline in The Deliverance that touches on similar ideas expressed in films like Get Out, The Blackening, and Bad Hair. Ebony's fears are universal, yet Day's thorny performance comes with strikes against her skin color. An unrecognizable Close portrays Ebony’s white mother who's found God and flirtatiously seduces her chemotherapy nurse , often demonstrating the power her pigmentation holds as she waves a baseball bat or avoids punishment for her actions.
There is, admittedly, a healthy dose of blasphemous symbolism that visually makes its impact. From levitations to stigmata, Ebony's offspring are tormented by the malevolence holding their spirits captive. What's less impressive are the digital augmentations to little Andre's face that turn him demonic or the computer-generated effects that achieve wall-crawling unease.
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