![]() ![]() I picture Derrickson as Kylo Ren shouting “More!” on set when adding rain to this movie. Three years later, the viewer is now in the Bronx, where it’s apparently always raining. One of the soldiers, Santino, is fixated on Latin inscriptions on the wall, and the body camera we’re seeing through blacks out. The men stumble upon an underground cavern and smell something foul (my guess is sulfur – typically used in possession films to signal that a demonic presence is near). We see spiders, bats, and a snake (omens?) approaching three soldiers as they march in the dark. Like “The Exorcist,” we open with the desert (specifically Iraq) – a classic place for characters to unearth something that’s not meant to be found. ![]() Let’s start with some similarities to other possession films: Very loosely based on a recount of true events, DUFE (Deliver Us From Evil) is gritty cop-detective film meets classic possession horror. Film critic Shawn Edwards described “Deliver Us From Evil” as “The Exorcist Meets Se7en,” which is quite fitting. ![]()
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