2014 · thriller · crime · horror
Deliver Us from Evil
Directed by Scott Derrickson1h 58m2014
When a frightening wave of violence sweeps through New York City, troubled cop Sarchie fails to find a rational explanation for the bizarre crimes. However, his eyes are opened to a frightening alternate reality when renegade Jesuit priest Mendoza convinces him that demonic possession may be to blame for the gruesome murders. Together, they wage a valiant supernatural struggle to rid the city of an otherworldly evil.
Our read: Deliver Us from Evil (2014) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive thriller · crime · horror entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme thriller / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- cold
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