New Netflix Trailer: The Deliverance by Lee Daniels supernatural horror starring Monique

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Every since lee Daniels and her forgiven each other, he got her in everything.

Some shit should be left alone.
And she is still a waste of time

They keep giving her unfunny ass specials

At least when they was beefing she had somebody else to blame.

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This shit was terrible and all over the place
The best Part was that the mom (not Glenn close) had pretty feet and showed em the whole movie
The fact omar epps was smashing a chemo mayo jar was terrible
Me and my wife was laughing and had the stank face the whole movie
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‘The Deliverance’ Review: Lee Daniels’ Horror Is ‘Precious’ & ‘The Exorcist’ Rolled Into A Pungent Experience



‘The Deliverance’ Review: Lee Daniels’ Horror Is ‘Precious’ & ‘The Exorcist’ Rolled Into One Pungent Experience​

Rodrigo Perez

September 2, 2024 9:30 am




Imagine the rank, pungent horror of William Friedkin’s rather foul and f*cked up horror, 1973’s original faint-inducing “The Exorcist” (excellent, but harrowing). Then recall the brutal, sometimes nasty side of Lee Daniel’s unflinching, sometimes hard-to-watch Sundance hit “Precious.” Smash them together like the sound of two skulls cracking together with a sound so excruciating it makes you shudder, and you have a very good approximation of “The Deliverance,” Daniel’s latest, a horror film and social drama, which is gnarly and features similar excessive and miserablist ‘Based on The Novel Push By Sapphire’ tendencies.

Daniels makes all kinds of films but is generally an undaunted chronicler of the Black experience in America. With “Deliverance,” he looks at the Black experience in America, particularly hardship, struggle, and abuse, and filters it through the lens of horror. While it’s fascinating in theory, and Daniels does offer some trenchant commentary about the adversities some impoverished Black Americans stuck in the cycle of poverty endure, it’s a bit of a mean, sometimes ugly, and bruising watch—and mostly not in a good way.

Inspired by a haunting case in Gary, Indiana, in 2011 around the Ammons family, the basics remain the same—a family endures a terrifying haunting in their home, though deeply exaggerated in horrific events for dramatic effect.

“The Deliverance” begins with many “Precious” like heartbreaking qualities. Ebony Jackson (Audra Day) is a single mom for now—her estranged husband is overseas fighting in Iraq—and she’s trying to parent and rear her three children: her eldest, Nate (Caleb McLaughlin from “Stranger Things”), the middle daughter Shante (Demi Singleton) and the youngest boy Andre (Anthony B. Jenkins). But bills and overdue payments are stacking up and being ignored; Ebony struggles with alcoholism and has the Department of Child Services worker closely monitoring her for past transgressions of neglect, possible abuse, and disregard.

Ebony has Alberta (Glenn Close), her reformed trailer-trashy religious mother, who once was a horribly abusive and drug-abusing mother until she found God. Still, their relationship is strained at best, broken usually, and challenging. Ebony is trying to help out her child and grandchildren by being around to assist. Yet, she’s also monitoring her daughter closely for drug and alcohol use while enduring cancer treatment, and that causes further toxic resentment in a household that’s seemingly already poisoned. Ebony is broke, her neighborhood is unsafe, and Daniels paints a pretty bleak and desperate scenario for all the characters, which makes a demonic haunting all the worse and more cruel.

Haven’t these people suffered enough with seemingly no way out or no one to rescue them? And that’s maybe the biggest problem with “The Deliverance” as a whole. It starts out bleak, dank, and harsh, and it becomes only more unpleasant, punishing, and grim when the haunting starts.
The horror of it all is something rotting, festering in the basement as if the home wasn’t in enough disrepair, both emotionally and physically. An exterminator finds a dead cat, but it turns out what’s lurking down there is far more wicked and evil. Soon, members of Ebony’s family start to behave strangely, and then things escalate to possession and other torturous agonies. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor appears as Bernice James, a suspicious woman watching the family, but turns out to be a religious Reverand who performs exorcism-like diabolical purges. And Mo’Nique, seemingly always great in Lee Daniels films, plays Cynthia Henry, a child social worker who suspects Ebony is abusing her children, continuously interrogating and asking why her children have bruises and marks on their arms, unaware of the possessions causing self-harm.

Both supporting actresses are very good in the movie, and so is Day—and the scenes between Monique and Day where they talk “mother to mother” are fierce— but they can’t help salvage the general unpleasantness of the film. There are issues beyond the oppressive bleakness, too. While some of the horror is repulsive and dark, some of it is also wtf? revolting and sometimes even unintentionally laughable. It just goes way too far, which is par for the course for this family. And aside from the end, Daniels pushes the envelope of psychological and emotional anguish and abuse and never gives the audience much of a reprieve.

And then there’s Glenn Close, whoo boy, strap-in, who is something out of a campy trailer trash drag show: a white jezebel who wants to be black and swears like a sailor. Close looks ridiculous with nearly clownish make-up, she leers over Black men flamboyantly, and she’s just a borderline offensive piece of work that makes you wonder why Daniels didn’t have the judgment to dial her back in—both in performance and hair and make-up (she’s such a landmine, even describing her feels potentially bigoted). She’s so outlandish, she’s way worse than the white trash character she played in “Hillbilly Elegy,” and she surely must be the subject of many memes on social media by now.

While the poor, urban setting of “The Deliverance” is a little bit unique for the supernatural genre, the way the suffering and dreariness within the backdrop collides with the ghastly misery of the unrelenting horror of it all is just several steps out of bounds. Daniels clearly wants to make “The Exorcist” for Black folk and draw parallels between the unjust, unfair sorrows and pains inherent in the genre of terror and his brand of melodramatic family heartaches. But it’s a hat on a hat or one type of horror slathered on another and far too unforgiving to bear. [C]

“The Deliverance” is available now on Netflix.

 

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Lee Daniels tried to warn everybody before The Deliverance dropped on Netflix: “Y’all are not ready for Glenn in this.”

The director is talking about Glenn Close, who plays the chain-smoking, cancer-riddled mother of Andra Day in the film that’s inspired by real events. Daniels’ first foray into the horror genre shot to No. 1 on Netflix after dropping Aug. 30, which may have a little bit — or a whole lot — to do with Close, who clearly had the time of her life playing a tramp named Alberta.

In The Deliverance, Alberta is the mom of Ebony (Day), an alcoholic single mom whose hands are full with three kids, no money and a haunted home that’s fooling a social worker (Mo’Nique) into thinking that she’s beating her kids. The story is inspired by the 2011 case of Latoya Ammons, who moved with her family into a scary Indiana rental that ultimately required an exorcism by a priest.

While promoting The Deliverance, Daniels talked about the uniqueness of Close’s larger than life character, who goes from braiding her daughter’s hair while watching Valley Of the Dolls on TV to trying to pick up her male nurse (Omar Epps) while getting a dose of chemotherapy.


“Every Black person knows an Alberta,” Daniels wrote on X. “She’s part of the fabric of our community, but we’ve never seen her on screen before. Thank you Glenn for bringing her magnificently to life.”

To fully embrace her role, Close said in a recent interview for Netflix that she had to come to terms with Alberta’s wardrobe that leaves little to the imagination.

“It really was the first time I got into those clothes that I started to get a window into who this woman was,” said Close. “You can’t wear those closes and be self conscious about your body. And so from that, I said, ‘oh okay, I get it. I know no matter what Lee puts me in, I am the sexiest woman on the street.”
 

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If "THE DELIVERANCE" would have stayed on the path of just being a film about this very dysfunctional family, it would have been better for it. The Horror element nearly ruined the film for Me. I just felt it went for the same old Hollywood Horror tropes. Not adding anything new. Except for it being a "Black" Family.

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I've had a CRUSH on Glen Close since "FATAL ATTRACTION". And she was not only AWESOME in this film, but HOT AS F**K!!

Hell. I was like if Melvin (Omar Epps) ain't gonna TAP that,
I MOST DEFINITELY WILL!!

If Close doesn't get an OSCAR Nod for this...

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