Filmmaker Lee Daniels is less interested in terrifying viewers and more concerned with nudging them to find faith with “The Deliverance.”
Landing on Netflix this week after a limited theatrical release, the supernatural horror thriller largely eschews jump scares in favor of a slow build to an extended exorcism sequence.
Single mother Ebony Jackson is doing her best to raise her three kids — teens Nate and Shante and younger son Andre — while struggling to make enough money and drinking at least a bit too much. She also has welcomed into their new home — the family’s third in a brief stretch — her mother, Alberta .
That there is indeed an evil entity at play is baked into a film such as “The Deliverance,” but the movie nonetheless does its obligatory dance, spending significant time suggesting the spirit’s actions — including inflicting physical harm on the children — are the work of Ebony.
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