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Did you people see the same film I saw?

A Masterpiece!

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

I generally don't watch horror movies, but if I do I like the ones which end positively. The movie Deliver us from Evil is quite methodical in its approach and I am not condemning it. In fact I like that. May be because, it's the only one of its type that I have seen. I want to highlight something; the movie explains the Exorcism to be carried out in six stages. To be frank in a movie the approach looks nice. The harsh reality is it never turns out that well. Despite that I have faith in supernatural beings working. It is because, in a given kind of similar situation was one of my friends, he vomited out the matter the way it is shown in Exorcism (1973). He never had something similar to eat. However he is now at peace with modern meds.Final Verdict: A methodical treat on exorcism with positive ending. I enjoyed watching it and I have faith so will you.

The tagline 'based on a true story' is obviously worth a lot to a film's success if that film is willing to completely deceive its audience over that fact. As I was watching 'Deliver Us from Evil' I kept thinking this Ralph Sarchie guy must be a complete nutter who's found a "get-rich-quick" scheme in lying about events that happened to him on the force and now a film is even being made about it. Turns out I was wrong. Turns out the filmmakers are the ones who took liberties with the truth. There is a guy by that name who wrote a book about his stories on the force, but this story sure as hell wasn't one of them. I mean what is that? How desperate to attach that tagline to your movie are you that you would do that? This completely ruined what was an otherwise decently made film.It doesn't really have much effect in the scariness department. I think we as an audience are getting used to the genre a lot now and filmmakers are going to have to work really hard to create an atmosphere and get the audience buying in to what they're selling us. The mixture of cop scenes intertwined with the demon possession was what made it work for me. Joel McHale really surprised me with an impressively convincing performance. Eric Bana (who's never been my favourite admittedly) was even decent in the lead role and managed not to bore me to death as he usually does. Generally these demon movies are being made with a lower budget, so perhaps it was just the heightening of that which made the film come across as having more quality than your average film of the same genre. Proper actors can often go a long way. It still remains nothing overly memorable or that I would recommend to friends, and the issue with the tagline has left a very sour taste in my mouth. I can just imagine them sitting around in their marketing meeting say, "OK we have an average horror movie on our hands here, what can we do to give ticket sales a boost?" And then a lowly intern at the back of the room pipes up, "why not tell people it actually happened this time?" And they go with it. Disgraceful.

I expected a predictable melodrama between its two primary protagonists — the hardened, intractably "close-minded" cop and the wise young priest. This, I thought, would upstage a thin, generic, supernatural backstory.Well … there was some of that expected character interaction, but I admit that it was done pretty well. And the old fashioned scares served up here make this an above average horror movie.I say "old fashioned" because this seemed to channel the demonic possession classics that defined this horror movie sub-genre, for me, anyway — "The Exorcist" (1973) and "The Exorcist III" (1990). It has an expansive story that begins in a nicely surprising battle scene in Iraq, then shifts its focus to several chilling violent crimes in New York City. Then it effectively blends a horror story with a police thriller. And the story is detailed, with some thought put into the demon's modus operandi and choice of victims, as well as the their investigation by streetwise New York City cops. A straight horror-thriller like this is a nice contrast to recent well made supernatural horror films like last year's "The Babadook" or "It Follows," which were ambiguous and heavily thematic, personal stories with virtually no exposition.Eric Bana and Edgar Ramirez were both terrific; even they might have been upstaged by Joel McHale in a supporting role as Bana's foul mouthed but loyal anti-hero partner. I was rooting for him more than the thinly drawn hero scripted for Bana. (Can any NYC cops really wield a knife like that? If so, that's totally badass.) McHale is damn good — I'll be looking for him in his regular role in the upcoming revival of "The X Files." If you were an NYC cop, wouldn't you want a partner like that? Seriously … that dude is BADASS.Regrettably, this movie's thought and creativity do seem to lose steam toward the end. Certain scares and images were done wonderfully. The scenes inside the asylum were great, for example, especially one shot that made me think of the Batman mythos' Arkham Asylum. Others fell flat. Our Big Bad, when finally revealed in full, is just a generic ugly dude in drab whiteface. And a sequence involving a piano is shot with little visual flair.The most frightening subplot of all involves a troubled girl in her bedroom; it's cut short and rendered irrelevant in order to move the plot forward. And the finale features an exorcism that recycles mostly old tropes from the sub-genre.Hey … this was still a good movie, though. It certainly was better than I thought it would be. I'd cheerfully recommend it.Oh! One more thing — this is supposedly based on a true story. Scott Derrickson's interesting screenplay derives from the 2001 book, "Beware The Night," by retired NYC police officer Ralph Sarchie (Bana's character). I wonder what evidence anyone has gathered to either support or debunk the story here.

Eric Bana and Edgar Ramirez star in a supernatural story using the life of NYPD sergeant turned demonologist Ralph Sarchie to create a tale of possession and exorcism in a darkened and rain-drenched New York. Bana plays Sarchie and Ramirez plays a charismatic priest, Joe Mendoza, who introduces Sarchie to the fight against evil. Both men have a brooding, dark and handsome persona, both men are unclean – Ramirez personally, Sarchie professionally – and, since it's more interesting to see the fight between good and evil being played out inside a character than outside, they make a well-matched and intriguing pair of demon-fighters.Deliver Us from Evil has an individuality derived from a strong aesthetic that combines a Gothic visual style – New York looks particularly Gotham-like – with a sound design that textures the film with the aural equivalent of film grain: static, buzzing, echoes and old voices, creaks, and shuddering old buildings, as well as a soundtrack from The Doors placed in a sinister context as demonic forces attempt to break through into Sarchie himself.The film is dominated by its locations and weather as much as by its actors and plot. Everything takes place in the rain, driving, heavy rain, always a great metaphor for the extremes of the human condition, and in the dark. Dark alleys, houses, cellars, dirty stairwells, a zoo at night; a city at night is the natural location for a horror film about humans and the things that prey on them. Where else should a film about demonic possession take place? On a sandy beach in the summer? Unless we've all been wrong for a very long time, Satan doesn't like sunshine.The direction and cinematography use these settings to create the story of humans in the midst of darkness. Only the characters' faces are lit in interior scenes; outside, the camera floats above the city, and it stays close to the actors when they are inside. The director, Scott Derrickson, is fast becoming a horror veteran and his experience and control are evident throughout scene by scene and also in the way he opens up the story and pushes it forward at a strong pace – this is not a horror film where nothing happens until the last 10 minutes! Ultimately a film about possession stands or falls on its exorcism scene. It also rests on the commitment of the actors, and this has to be strongest in the exorcism sequence. Sean Harris plays the demoniac and he excels not just in the physical acting needed to portray possession but in his sheer creepiness earlier in the film and, in the end, his terror and shock when exorcised. He looks like a hostage who's been buried underground or locked up in a box and his release ends a great exorcism scene which has just enough gruesomeness and religious fervour but doesn't go over the top, although shattering glass, pouring rain and the Doors playing over the ritual comes close.Watching Eric Bana give a strong performance, brooding his way through a fairly Gothic city, given direction and, finally, release by Edgar Ramirez as the cool and spiritually committed Jesuit, it raises a question about him that might not have occurred before: Bana for Batman, anyone?