Review #57: Deliver Us from Evil (2014)
This review was originally written in October 2019. October Horror Movie Review #5: Deliver Us from Evil Okay: Don't worry, this review is going to be shorter than the last couple. And much more positive. Today's movie was Deliver Us from Evil, about a hard-working homicide cop from the mean streets of Brooklyn who gets caught up in a case that apparently involves demons from Iraq. Or something. Overall I thought this movie was very good. The characters do what they need to do, there is a good ratio of exposition to action, and the spookiness is adequately spooky. By the time the characters started getting to the bottom of things, I was hooked in, and although the religious aspects of the movie were a bit heavy-handed (what did I expect from a movie called Deliver Us from Evil?) it was all in service of the plot so I can't knock it too much. One thing that this movie made me realize with absolute certainty: I'm an absolute sucker for the part in a horror film where a ch...