It is not quite Halloween-autumn yet and yet a horror title is already number 1 in the Netflix film chartsThe Deliverance by director Lee Daniels may not have received very good reviews and only received a 4.2 rating from the Moviepilot community, but if you want to celebrate Halloween early, the film is definitely an option.
The Deliverance on Netflix: This is what the horror film that is number 1 in the film charts is about
Single mother Ebony Jackson (Andra Day) wants to make a fresh start in Pittsburgh with her three sons (including Stranger Things star Caleb McLaughlin) and her frail mother Alberta (Glenn Close). spooky things in their new home When she sees what is going on, she first turns to her unhelpful neighbors and finally gets help from social worker Cynthia (Mo’Nique). Pastor Bernice (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) also gets involved and suggests a more drastic measure: an exorcism.
Watch the German Netflix trailer for The Deliverance here:
The Deliverance – Trailer (German) HD
Religiously inspired exorcism films are currently back in vogue, just think of Late Night with the Devil, Immaculate, The First Omen or The Exorcism from recent times. While The Deliverance directly captures the diabolical zeitgeist, it was less to the taste of critics.
At Rotten Tomatoes, the Tomatometer is only at 32 percent, while the Audience as always a little milder in the verdict, the Metacritic score is also low at only 38. Lovia Gyarkye of the Hollywood Reporter wrote:
[Daniels’] The desire to extract explicit meaning from the mother’s experience and push the audience toward a single conclusion inadvertently pushes The Deliverance into dour and disappointingly cartoonish territory.
Peter Bradshaw of the Guardian at least found the amusing formulation: “This film is covered in a thick ectoplasm of disappointment.”
If you have 112 minutes, you can since August 16, 2024 on Netflix get an idea of the horror show yourself.
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