Deliver Us from Evil
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- cold
Heavy, kinetic, extreme thriller / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →When a frightening wave of violence sweeps through New York City, troubled cop Sarchie fails to find a rational explanation for the bizarre crimes. However, his eyes are opened to a frightening alternate reality when renegade Jesuit priest Mendoza convinces him that demonic possession may be to blame for the gruesome murders. Together, they wage a valiant supernatural struggle to rid the city of an otherworldly evil.
Our read · Deliver Us from Evil (2014) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive thriller · crime · horror entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Deliver Us from Evil
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“You want a gritty NY cop thriller that slowly turns into full supernatural horror.”
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