Genre: Crime Horror Thriller
Cert: 15 cert, but i strongly say this was bordering on 18 cert
Director: Scott Derrickson
Screen writer: Scott Derrickson, Paul Harris Boardman , Ralph Sarchie , Lisa Collier Cool
Starring: Eric Bana , Édgar Ramírez , Olivia Munn , Chris Coy , Dorian Missick , Sean Harris , Joel McHale , Mike Houston , Lulu Wilson , Olivia Horton , Scott Johnsen , Daniel Sauli , Antoinette LaVecchia , Aidan Gemme , Jenna Gavigan.
Running time: 118 min - (1hr 58mins)
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: A priest tells a colleague that he had sex with a parishioner who became pregnant.
Violence & Gore: A man chases a another man, pistol-whips him until his face is bleeding down the full front of his shirt, and finally punches him to death and keeps on punching the body below the frame; after this incident, the man hears static, sees the man's bloody face and hears children laughing in several scenes while no one else can see or hear these things.
A woman has a bloody face from a beating and sits crying as her husband runs outside, away from police, who fight him with fists, headlocks, knives and a thrown baton (his mouth is bloody).
American soldiers in Iraq shoot rifles and we see men fall dead (no blood is seen).
A man with two knives fights with a zombie-like man that has a narrow-bladed hatchet; after a few minutes of swiping at each other, the zombie-man wounds the other man in the chest (blood gushes from the wound) and the attacker leaves and we see a pool of blood under the wounded man.
A detective finds a dead baby wrapped in a blanket and in a dumpster (we see the infant's ankles and feet).
On an outside staircase landing, we see the scratched and bloody lower legs of a 6-year-old girl sticking out from behind a toppled waste can and hear that she is dead by murder.
A bloody female psych patient falls from an upper window onto the window of a police vehicle, cracking the front glass; we see her on the ground, twisted and with eyes open, bones sticking out of her knee and a demon-possessed man later says that he killed the woman.
In a dirty maximum-security psych ward, we see food trays scattered along a hallway; a man lies on the floor of a cell with his right arm convulsing and a woman covered with blood about the hands and face nearby; the woman crawls over the man's body, carrying a ring of keys in her mouth and moves off screen as the man's twitching arm stops (the man is presumably dead).
A possessed man chews two large pieces of flesh from one of his lower legs and we see blood on his mouth as he spits the two pieces onto the floor; we see bloody flesh on the floor, but not the leg wounds.
A man bites into the thigh of one man and the arm of another man, but we do not see the wounds; the men shout in pain.
An intense sequence in an interrogation room shows a priest and a police detective performing an exorcism
A detective's forearm is sliced open and we see a bloody wound; we later see the stitched arm bitten (blood gushing from dark brown stitches) by a female psychiatric patient that is foaming at her dirty mouth and has bloody fingers and a bloody, gray face; the detective shouts that he needs an HIV test and in the next scene, the man's arm is completely wrapped in a bandage.
A criminal fights with a detective in his home, fist fighting until the cop puts him in handcuffs.
A zombie-faced man looks at a woman on a video of zoo footage and she throws her two-year-old child into the lion enclosure, but he hits his head on a low wall and falls into a ravine; we hear that EMTs took the child to a hospital and he will be OK.
We hear that 11 children have been molested by a man called Marvin the Molester.
A woman tells a man that her husband returned from the Iraq War and began scratching and clawing the floors at home and we see scratch marks.
We see a dead cat nailed to a crucifix in place of Jesus and its dried-up body is slit open from throat to tail to reveal bones and dried flesh.
Profanity: About 8 Fucks, 11 variations on the word "shit", 4 anatomical terms, 2 mild obscenities, 6 religious profanities (god-damn, etc.).
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: A doctor says that a patient is heavily sedated.
A priest says that he used to do drugs until he woke up nude in a public square in a pool of urine with a needle for a speedball (heroine-cocaine mix) still in his arm and he joined Narcotic Anonymous.
Police officers ask several people if drugs are connected to murders and beatings (the answer is no).
A man drinks a bottle of beer at home.
A man drinks whisky and a woman drinks wine at a bar where there are bottles of liquor lined up along the back.
Two men drink whisky in short glasses in a bar.
A woman smokes at home.
A priest smokes cigarettes in several scenes (in a car, in a police station and on a sidewalk.)
A cigarette is lit in close-up and the camera cuts to a priest exhaling smoke.
Frightening/Intense Scenes: There's heavy, gory, bloody violence; disgusting corpses; struggling and fighting; guns and knives; children in peril; and scary demons.Lots of gory wounds, with gurgling and spurting blood; crazy, scary, demon-possessed people; and gross dead bodies.
Nearly all the scenes featuring the demon-possessed are disturbing, the climactic exorcism scene is pretty intense and frightening.
There's also a subplot about a child molester/murderer.
A crucified cat is shown.
A woman tosses a baby into a ravine at the zoo.
Story: In DELIVER US FROM EVIL, New York police officer Ralph Sarchie (Eric Bana), struggling with his own personal issues, begins investigating a series of disturbing and inexplicable crimes. He joins forces with an unconventional priest (Edgar Ramirez), schooled in the rituals of exorcism, to combat the frightening and demonic possessions that are terrorising their city. Based upon the book, which details Sarchie's bone-chilling real-life cases.
Likes : Unfortunately nine times out of ten horror film have been disappointing at least some are just seriously bad, but this was definitely the exception. Absolutely the best horror film I have seen in a very very long time. I noticed the one reviewer felt it was more a crime drama and thus should not be called "horror". In my opinion...the true horror is that which is real. This story behind this film is very real & based on real crimes, which scared the living daylights out of me.
You don't have to jump and scream to be scared....it is more scary to view first hand the deep depravity of man and of evil, though i did jump about 6 times through out the film sacred the hell out of me.
Allot of people will say that movies that claim true story are fake & just made up to look real but this is no fake story, it might be slightly dramatise for the film but the real story behind this is truly frightening, i my self have faced a pure demonic evil its no funny matter, but these are personally experiences which i wont do in to, but i can relate to this film in the way of dark forces trying to play with your mind, which is why this film was even more scarier because that what demonic force do, they take your darkest sin & use it against you. Do i believe this film should of been given a high certification yes in some ways because it was borderline to a 18 cert not quite R-rated but pushing it, but shouldn't of been a 15 due to its content & theme because there are some moment in this film that are extremely disturbing, that chill you to the bone.
What make this one of the best horror so far is the fact of the atmosphere...through out the whole film the atmosphere was kept steady & always there in ever scene which gave the film its whole dark tone added to the disturbing scenes, which some parts really make you jump.
Eric Bana play Ralph Sarchie down to a perfect tee, truly was the best casting for this film although i think this is the first time ive seen Eric do a horror film which is great because he suit the role, special with the rest of the cast Édgar Ramírez playing the priest one of the best performance ive seen in a a horror film, Olivia Munn who was perfect for the role as the mum, with the daughter played brilliant by Lulu Wilson who scene were disturbing specially for a young girl to go through.
If you are looking for the best horror film this year this is the best film you'll see, that will scare the living hell out of you.
Dislikes : nothing wrong with this film.
Overall : Dark Tone of this film is brilliant, based on a true story brilliant done, Eric bane has a future in horror genre
Rating: 5 out of 5 for Entertainment / 10 out of 10 Concept/ true story-based
Screen writer: Scott Derrickson, Paul Harris Boardman , Ralph Sarchie , Lisa Collier Cool
Starring: Eric Bana , Édgar Ramírez , Olivia Munn , Chris Coy , Dorian Missick , Sean Harris , Joel McHale , Mike Houston , Lulu Wilson , Olivia Horton , Scott Johnsen , Daniel Sauli , Antoinette LaVecchia , Aidan Gemme , Jenna Gavigan.
Running time: 118 min - (1hr 58mins)
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: A priest tells a colleague that he had sex with a parishioner who became pregnant.
Violence & Gore: A man chases a another man, pistol-whips him until his face is bleeding down the full front of his shirt, and finally punches him to death and keeps on punching the body below the frame; after this incident, the man hears static, sees the man's bloody face and hears children laughing in several scenes while no one else can see or hear these things.
A woman has a bloody face from a beating and sits crying as her husband runs outside, away from police, who fight him with fists, headlocks, knives and a thrown baton (his mouth is bloody).
American soldiers in Iraq shoot rifles and we see men fall dead (no blood is seen).
A man with two knives fights with a zombie-like man that has a narrow-bladed hatchet; after a few minutes of swiping at each other, the zombie-man wounds the other man in the chest (blood gushes from the wound) and the attacker leaves and we see a pool of blood under the wounded man.
A detective finds a dead baby wrapped in a blanket and in a dumpster (we see the infant's ankles and feet).
On an outside staircase landing, we see the scratched and bloody lower legs of a 6-year-old girl sticking out from behind a toppled waste can and hear that she is dead by murder.
A bloody female psych patient falls from an upper window onto the window of a police vehicle, cracking the front glass; we see her on the ground, twisted and with eyes open, bones sticking out of her knee and a demon-possessed man later says that he killed the woman.
In a dirty maximum-security psych ward, we see food trays scattered along a hallway; a man lies on the floor of a cell with his right arm convulsing and a woman covered with blood about the hands and face nearby; the woman crawls over the man's body, carrying a ring of keys in her mouth and moves off screen as the man's twitching arm stops (the man is presumably dead).
A possessed man chews two large pieces of flesh from one of his lower legs and we see blood on his mouth as he spits the two pieces onto the floor; we see bloody flesh on the floor, but not the leg wounds.
A man bites into the thigh of one man and the arm of another man, but we do not see the wounds; the men shout in pain.
An intense sequence in an interrogation room shows a priest and a police detective performing an exorcism
A detective's forearm is sliced open and we see a bloody wound; we later see the stitched arm bitten (blood gushing from dark brown stitches) by a female psychiatric patient that is foaming at her dirty mouth and has bloody fingers and a bloody, gray face; the detective shouts that he needs an HIV test and in the next scene, the man's arm is completely wrapped in a bandage.
A criminal fights with a detective in his home, fist fighting until the cop puts him in handcuffs.
A zombie-faced man looks at a woman on a video of zoo footage and she throws her two-year-old child into the lion enclosure, but he hits his head on a low wall and falls into a ravine; we hear that EMTs took the child to a hospital and he will be OK.
We hear that 11 children have been molested by a man called Marvin the Molester.
A woman tells a man that her husband returned from the Iraq War and began scratching and clawing the floors at home and we see scratch marks.
We see a dead cat nailed to a crucifix in place of Jesus and its dried-up body is slit open from throat to tail to reveal bones and dried flesh.
Profanity: About 8 Fucks, 11 variations on the word "shit", 4 anatomical terms, 2 mild obscenities, 6 religious profanities (god-damn, etc.).
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: A doctor says that a patient is heavily sedated.
A priest says that he used to do drugs until he woke up nude in a public square in a pool of urine with a needle for a speedball (heroine-cocaine mix) still in his arm and he joined Narcotic Anonymous.
Police officers ask several people if drugs are connected to murders and beatings (the answer is no).
A man drinks a bottle of beer at home.
A man drinks whisky and a woman drinks wine at a bar where there are bottles of liquor lined up along the back.
Two men drink whisky in short glasses in a bar.
A woman smokes at home.
A priest smokes cigarettes in several scenes (in a car, in a police station and on a sidewalk.)
A cigarette is lit in close-up and the camera cuts to a priest exhaling smoke.
Frightening/Intense Scenes: There's heavy, gory, bloody violence; disgusting corpses; struggling and fighting; guns and knives; children in peril; and scary demons.Lots of gory wounds, with gurgling and spurting blood; crazy, scary, demon-possessed people; and gross dead bodies.
Nearly all the scenes featuring the demon-possessed are disturbing, the climactic exorcism scene is pretty intense and frightening.
There's also a subplot about a child molester/murderer.
A crucified cat is shown.
A woman tosses a baby into a ravine at the zoo.
Story: In DELIVER US FROM EVIL, New York police officer Ralph Sarchie (Eric Bana), struggling with his own personal issues, begins investigating a series of disturbing and inexplicable crimes. He joins forces with an unconventional priest (Edgar Ramirez), schooled in the rituals of exorcism, to combat the frightening and demonic possessions that are terrorising their city. Based upon the book, which details Sarchie's bone-chilling real-life cases.
Likes : Unfortunately nine times out of ten horror film have been disappointing at least some are just seriously bad, but this was definitely the exception. Absolutely the best horror film I have seen in a very very long time. I noticed the one reviewer felt it was more a crime drama and thus should not be called "horror". In my opinion...the true horror is that which is real. This story behind this film is very real & based on real crimes, which scared the living daylights out of me.
You don't have to jump and scream to be scared....it is more scary to view first hand the deep depravity of man and of evil, though i did jump about 6 times through out the film sacred the hell out of me.
Allot of people will say that movies that claim true story are fake & just made up to look real but this is no fake story, it might be slightly dramatise for the film but the real story behind this is truly frightening, i my self have faced a pure demonic evil its no funny matter, but these are personally experiences which i wont do in to, but i can relate to this film in the way of dark forces trying to play with your mind, which is why this film was even more scarier because that what demonic force do, they take your darkest sin & use it against you. Do i believe this film should of been given a high certification yes in some ways because it was borderline to a 18 cert not quite R-rated but pushing it, but shouldn't of been a 15 due to its content & theme because there are some moment in this film that are extremely disturbing, that chill you to the bone.
What make this one of the best horror so far is the fact of the atmosphere...through out the whole film the atmosphere was kept steady & always there in ever scene which gave the film its whole dark tone added to the disturbing scenes, which some parts really make you jump.
Eric Bana play Ralph Sarchie down to a perfect tee, truly was the best casting for this film although i think this is the first time ive seen Eric do a horror film which is great because he suit the role, special with the rest of the cast Édgar Ramírez playing the priest one of the best performance ive seen in a a horror film, Olivia Munn who was perfect for the role as the mum, with the daughter played brilliant by Lulu Wilson who scene were disturbing specially for a young girl to go through.
If you are looking for the best horror film this year this is the best film you'll see, that will scare the living hell out of you.
Dislikes : nothing wrong with this film.
Overall : Dark Tone of this film is brilliant, based on a true story brilliant done, Eric bane has a future in horror genre
Rating: 5 out of 5 for Entertainment / 10 out of 10 Concept/ true story-based
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