I love this movie so much

Nice effects though.

Excellent but underrated film

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Based on the 2001 book Beware the Night by Ralph Sarchie and Lisa Collier Cool, this film claims that it was inspired by the actual accounts of an NYPD sergeant, a throwback to 1970's Satanic film. Directed by Scott Derrickson (Dr. Strange, Sinister), it's a stylish modern take on those films and their various tropes.Where those 70's shockers dealt with the spectre of Vietnam and society's changing views of religion, this film takes the PTSD afflicted survivors of Iraq and posits occult reasons for their suicidal and murderous urges. NYPD office Raphie Sarchie (Eric Bana, Hulk) and partner Butler (Joel McHale, Community) work the dangerous streets of the 46th precinct, a place where the veteran office recounts finding dead infants in dumpsters and real-life horror in every alley.A domestic disturbance call brings them into the world of Jimmy Tratner, a marine that has beaten his wife and whose home has scratch marks all over it. They assume that the man is on drugs or has gone insane as they make an arrest.Before they get a chance to rest, they're called to the Bronx Zoo, where a woman literally threw her son to the lions. The power is down, a stranger painter has released the lions that he talks to and the woman scratches at the ground reciting lyrics from The Doors (an interesting inclusion due to the witchcraft behind their lyrics, such as the inversion of Morrison's name to Mr. Mojo Risin and the Boys from Brazil urban legend of multiple Morrisons being alive all at the same time).The woman from the zoo is transferred to a mental health facility and her family asks that a Jesuit named Mendoza help, which leads to us learning that Ralph has issues with religion.Another call to a house where a family will not leave the living room leads to a possessed basement where that woman's husband, David Griggs, was a painter. His dead body — filled with maggots and flies — emerges from a wall in a great scare. They learn that Santino, a Marine commander, was the painter at the zoo. This scene is rich with occult imagery — strange voices, lightbulbs being instantly extinguished and static coming from the police band.As Ralph gets deeper into the case, he discovers hidden owl iconography, Doors lyrics and more static at each crime scene. There are some effective slices of gruesomeness here, such as the look of Santino and strange bursts of gore, like a crucified cat. And the horror has followed him home, haunting his daughter.After deciding to work with Mendoza, they learn that Ralph has an instinctive radar for the dark side. The three men track Santino and Jimmy. The former overcomes and kills Butler (who did not die in the original cut of the film) and the latter is stopped by the power of a crucifix.Santino escapes, taking Ralph's wife and daughter hostage. An exorcism is performed and all works out fine, including Ralph's return to the Catholic faith as he baptizes his second child.Deliver Us from Evil suggests the start of a new Insidious style franchise, which didn't happen, but still leaves us with a modern take on The Exoricst. It's more stylish and somewhat better than you'd expect, which has led to frequent rewatching in the B and S About Movies household. That says volumes, as most modern horror is barely mentioned in this homestead!Read more at http://bit.ly/2hDnwpo

I know some people would probably strongly disagree with me, but I'm sorry, Scott Derrickson cannot write, nor direct a scary movie. His previous effort, 'Sinister' had me reluctant to start 'Deliver Us From Evil', but with nothing better on my plate, I figured 'what the hell', I believe in second chances after all. Unfortunately, the master of suspense-lacking and stupid scary movies delivered a similar turd in the same fashion as his first successful piece of mainstream, brain rotting, piece of trash-Sinister.I feel redundant saying this, but once again, with Deliver Us From Evil, we get a film 'inspired' by 'true' events. That's a short way of saying it's about a delusional cop and priest duo who become 'demon hunters', to root out the seed of Satan in the city of sin itself, New York City. Now, the main character, Sarchie, does exist in real life, and truly believes that he is a demon hunter. Is it just me, or is it starting to get really annoying how every time a paranoid or insane person speaks of fighting the paranormal, Hollywood craps out a movie? To be fair, perhaps I didn't go into this film with a very objective lens-I hated this directors previous piece of trash, and I also don't care much for police officers or priests. In addition, the idea of explaining the sin and atrocities that occur in New York City (where I was born and lived up until relatively recently) is the product of satanic influence is just...retarded.I imagine that the group of people that like this type of horror film, and also consider themselves 'horror buffs', are the same type of people that think Cradle of Filth is the pinnacle of extreme metal music. Ignorant out of choice, this 'herd' is satisfied with anything supposedly 'scary' that is handed to them, and therefor choose NOT to dig a little for the real horror gems out there, like 'Martyrs' .I watched this movie for free and I still feel cheated-don't waste your time. There are better things to do, like urinating on its cover.

Exorcism movies are all the rage these days... seems kind of a waste, considering The Exorcist pretty much perfected the genre in one go over 40 years ago. That's not to say other shouldn't try (The Conjuring for example was pretty excellent), but if you're going to make one, you'd better make sure it's damn good. Deliver Us from Evil stumbles not only because it's not very good, but because so many of its scenes immediately draw to mind the 1973 classic, thus drawing comparisons to a movie that it really doesn't hold a candle to. The film makers had to have noticed the three glaring similarities - the opening in an eastern country, the possessed girl (who also looks very similar to little Regan), and the "personal" details of the story that somehow manage to get embroiled up in the final exorcism. I realize that films can be similar, but in this case it is to this movies huge detriment.Otherwise it feels like there's not much to say about this movie, because the movie itself is so devoid of memorability that I feel I can't comment on it. What I will say is this: decent acting, good cinematography. Eric Bana is invaluable to making this film bearable and it features some lovely, moody tracking shots. Otherwise this film has an plethora of problems. The story has been done a thousand times, the villain is particularly lame, the dialogue has numerous clunkers, and the scares just aren't there. When it tries to scare it falls back on the worst clichés in the book - haunted jack in the box anyone?The biggest crime of all is that it just feels cheap. It features cheap scares, cheap and obvious special effects, and some of the cheapest sound effects in the game - listen out for that sample of laughing children that occurs a hundred times throughout the movie. I've heard that sound effect so many times in so many other movies, at this stage I'm going to presume those kids are grandparents at this stage.Worst of all, this movie uses violence in a cheap way. It's difficult to use violence right in a movie, but here it gets it wrong altogether and uses it as an exploitative emotional ploy than anything that further the plot. One act in particular, committed at the start of the movie (thankfully shown off screen) seems to exist just to upset viewer,s as it bears absolutely zero relevance to anything else in the entire movie. Do yourself a favour - rent out Se7en and The Exorcist. Someday, someone will make a good mash up of these movies. Deliver Us from Evil is not that movie.

Bought this on blu-ray after a friend recommended it to me.I like Eric Bana, I like horror (paranormal or otherwise), I do believe in other realms, but one thing I cannot stomach is Christian bulls*it and Hollywood "based on real story/accounts" propaganda!!!Best recent example of Hollywood gone Joseph Goebbels is "American Sniper".Both "American Sniper" and "Deliver Us From Evil" are good movies production value wise. But the sheer amount of bulls*it that comes with films like that is sickening. But I guess you don't notice it much if you're American ;-)Once you've watched the extras on "Deliver Us From Evil", you'll walk away from the whole experience needing a sanity mouthwash pretty ricky-goddamn-tick!First, you'll find out the whole story is a fairy tale (very, and I mean very loosely based on the dude Eric Bana is portraying), and secondly, you'll learn the actual dude (Ralph Sarchie) is as cuckoo as they come. He actually says "If you're not on God's side, you're with the Devil. End of story."Well, I think it's time NYPD, or any other law enforcement organization for that matter, started psych-testing people before pinning shields on their chests; don't you!The movie itself is alright, I guess (in terms of popcorn value). Nothing special. Generally, it's quite unfulfilling. I mean, after two hours, you're learning that the whole plot of the movie is about the cop taking part in an exorcism of some spastic looking like the poster boy for an NGO campaign raising awareness about self-harming :-DAnd what's with the damn demons anyway!? They seem to have the IQ of a fruit basket, don't they!? You catch a cat possessed by a demon, you strap him/her to a chair or bed and you start playing word games with the poor bastard! Does it really matter what the demon's name is? Just call him Steve and be done with it! What, is there a file on every demon out there listing its demonic deeds so you can look it up in your database and go "Well Azazel…I'll be damned, it's you again! I mean, didn't we tell you back in '68 to bugger off!? With your record, Jesus gonna send a SWAT team after yo as*"? What's wrong with you?! Azazel, I got a barbecue at 1 o'clock and I don't have time for this. You leave poor Angie here alone and vacate the premises at once! I command you! If you don't, I'm gonna have to splash you with some super duper magic water and it's gonna sting! So…what do you say!?" :-DAnd if it's a demon, why would you even assume he's not dic*ing around telling you his name is Mammon or some damn thing!? Maybe his name is Dolph…but he doesn't wanna be embarrassed about it so he came up with a cool alias for the occasion, huh!? And demons are always male too, I find :-D Wouldn't it be fun to watch a movie where the demon's name is Stacey!? And are demons really so scared of the word Jesus and Lord!? Some "black dress wearing" as*wipe waves a cross in front of a demon possessed "client", shouts "In the name of…'and the magic word" and all hell breaks loose (pardon the pun)! I mean, demons inhabit a realm/dimension where time isn't really a major factor, right? It's not like a demon has to bounce an hour earlier 'cos' Lucifer paged him to get his as* back in Hell quick and attend a board meeting at which a quarterly possession records of all the employee demons out in the field are reviewed! Why wouldn't a demon just play possum for a week and trick the idiot exorcists he was gone and come back after everything blew over!? I cannot imagine exorcists keeping a "possessed client" strapped to a chair or bed in a basement somewhere for three years making the whole "we gonna make this demon leave" thing their life mission, do you!? One of them would be bound to finally snap and go "Right, screw it! I'm hungry, I got car payments outstanding, my kids failed three spelling tests in a row 'cos' I've been talking total s*hit with a demon for the past two months…that's it, I'm outta here!" :-DSee, this is where you hit a giant smelly wall of bulls*it - the moment you enter the bizarre world of medieval superstition (a.k.a religion). The further we venture into the 21st century, the more insane the whole dogma becomes.It's actually scarier than any horror movie to think that the Vatican actually runs a freaking exorcist school!!! I suspect it's all a Vatican scam! They make up demons and wait for overly religious folks with learning disabilities to start acting all crazy. Then a Constantine-style bass-as* kicks their door in with his arm extended holding a replica of an ancient execution scene nicely compacted into a pocket-size crucifix saving the day! Oh, and he often charges money…'cos', in the end, we don't live in heaven where money doesn't matter; we're still here and someone's gotta pick up the gas bill, don't they!?:-DAll in all, "Deliver Us From Evil" is an acceptable Friday night flick to watch with your squeamish girlfriend munching on burgers with salty Polish cucumbers :-) If you want something a hell of a lot scarier, and you haven't seen it yet, I recommend "Sinister" instead...