![]() ![]() The movie is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, an imprimatur that should give sensitive souls some warning as to what awaits for them inside this crypt of solemn myth-making, big bangs, and shrieking violence. Before too long he is seeing signs of sinister cosmic intervention within the film’s catalogue of domestic violence: when a baby is thrown to lions in the Bronx Zoo, Ralph becomes haunted by his own misdeeds. At first, no one takes this seriously, amongst them tough cop Ralph Sarchie (Eric Bana). Once they return to New York the trio form a little paint company and create havoc. ![]() In this new feature from Scott Derrickson, who is no stranger to horror or the ways of the devil in cinematic form having directed The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), three US forces combat troopers have a close encounter with something evil while serving in Iraq. In The Exorcist(1973), feminine adolescence was transformed into a contest over the soul of a 13-year-old girl. For millennia, artists have imagined combat between good and evil in ways both grand and banal. In Deliver Us from Evil, the war on terror brings horror to the Bronx and a New York cop who becomes a holy crusader. ![]()
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