Deliver Us
From Evil **
Dir: Scott Derrickson. With: Eric Bana, Edgar
Ramirez, Olivia Munn. 118 mins. Cert: 15
Scott Derrickson
folded demonic possession into courtroom drama with 2005’s The Exorcism of Emily Rose; here he attempts the same with the
police procedural, and winds up battling two clichés for every one. Derrickson
approaches his task seriously – countless rain-snuffed lightbulbs enable the
gloomiest horror since Seven – and
casts smartly: ever-dependable Eric Bana is the Bronx cop tailing Scariest
Living Actor Sean Harris. Yet the material soon betrays its thinness: Edgar
Ramirez’s priest preaches High Exposition, while Bana’s family await third-act
imperilment. My faith, tested by use of The Doors as a Satanic conduit,
vanished forever the instant a possessed piano bashed out “Pop Goes the
Weasel”.
Deliver Us from Evil opens in cinemas nationwide today.
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