Deliver Us from Evil (2014 film)
Deliver Us from Evil | |
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Directed by | Scott Derrickson |
Screenplay by | Scott Derrickson Paul Harris Boardman |
Based on | Beware the Night by Ralph Sarchie Lisa Collier Cool |
Produced by | Jerry Bruckheimer |
Starring | Eric Bana Édgar Ramírez Olivia Munn Sean Harris Joel McHale |
Cinematography | Scott Kevan |
Edited by | Jason Hellmann |
Music by | Christopher Young |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Screen Gems[1] |
Release date |
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Running time | 118 minutes[2] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $30 million[3] |
Box office | $87.9 million[3] |
Deliver Us from Evil is a 2014 American supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.[4] The film claims to be based on a 2001 non-fiction book entitled Beware the Night by Ralph Sarchie and Lisa Collier Cool, and its marketing campaign highlighted that it was "inspired by actual accounts", however the plot is an original piece written by director Derrickson. The film stars Eric Bana, Édgar Ramírez, Sean Harris, Olivia Munn, and Joel McHale in the main roles and was released on July 2, 2014.[5] The film grossed $87.9 million against a $30 million budget.
Plot
In Iraq in 2010, a four-man Marine team is closing in on a firefight across an open desert area. One of the Marines takes a round to the head. The other three close in on the firefight. They apply suppressive fire and move in on the threat towards a tree line. Night has fallen as they move through the trees. One Marine shoots off a flare. The team notices several nocturnal species and observes possible hostile forces running ahead of them. They quickly pursue and one Marine throws out a grenade, rendering the hostiles injured. One hostile gets up and is quickly neutralized by a Marine. As they assess the situation, one Marine turns on a flashlight and finds an open stairwell into the ground. One pulls security and two descend. PFC J. Tratner activates a bodycam as they investigate. As they make to the bottom of the stairs, they notice a foul smell. They seem to have found some sort of room, and their lights as well as the bodycam go dark. Screaming ensues.
In
Sarchie and Butler are called to the Bronx Zoo after a woman has thrown her toddler into the moat surrounding the lion enclosure. They find the woman in the lemur pen. She is furiously scraping at the ground and rapidly recites the lyrics to "Break On Through (To the Other Side)". Sarchie notices a commercial painter inside the lion enclosure. He enters to interrogate the man, but is attacked by the lions and barely escapes.
When the deranged woman, Jane Crenna, is transferred to a mental health facility, a
Mendoza believes that Jane is possessed by demons. He explains that there is secondary evil created by humans and primary evil which comes from demons. Sarchie is skeptical, but when he reviews the surveillance footage, he hears strange noises and sees things that Butler does not. Sarchie returns to Jimmy Tratner's house and finds a wall that was being painted. He scrapes away the paint to find a
Mendoza decodes the message as a kind of bridge between Christian and
At Sarchie's home, his daughter sees her stuffed owl advance toward her bed. As she runs screaming, she sees Santino in the hallway. As Sarchie is driving home, he gets a call from Jen but finds that it's Santino instead. He calls for backup and races home. When he arrives Santino warns that he has abducted Sarchie's wife and daughter, and then attacks Sarchie. Backup arrives and Santino is subdued and taken to the precinct where Mendoza and Sarchie perform an exorcism on him. During the exorcism, Sarchie begins hearing whispers telling him the name of the demon, Jungler. Mendoza is able to use the name of the demon during the exorcism to finally release Santino. Santino is then able to tell them Sarchie's wife and daughter are located in an Alphonsus Painting van at a storage facility. Seven months later, we are in the living room at the baptism of the Sarchies' second child, Daniella Anne Sarchie. Sarchie proudly renounces Satan during the baptism and a placard at the end says he retired from the police force and continued to work with Father Mendoza.
Cast
- Eric Bana as Ralph Sarchie, a New York City street cop who has put his faith in religion behind him, only to find himself entangled with the devil.[6]
- Édgar Ramírez as Mendoza, the Spanish priest who teams with Ralph.[7]
- Olivia Munn as Jen Sarchie, Ralph's wife, who also has a tie to the case.[7]
- Sean Harris as Mick Santino/Jungler, a Marine possessed by demons, who ends up targeting Ralph and his loved ones.[8]
- Joel McHale as Butler, Ralph's partner, a tough, experienced (yet sometimes a bit egotistical) cop.[8]
- Chris Coy as Jimmy Tratner[9]
- Dorian Missick as Gordon[10]
- Lulu Wilson as Christina Sarchie, Ralph's daughter.
- Scott Johnsen as Lt. Griggs
- Daniel Sauli as Salvatore
- Antoinette Lavecchia as Serafina
- Aidan Gemme as Mario
- Jenna Gavigan as Lucinda
- Oliver Wadsworth as Marvin
- Mike Houston as Nadler
- Olivia Horton as Jane Crenna[9]
- Rhona Fox as Zookeeper[9]
- Valentina Rendón as Claudia[9]
Production
On September 4, 2012, director
The film features a completely original plot by Derrickson and co-writer Paul Harris Boardman,[14] while it draws on certain passages of Sarchie's book. Mendoza's explanation of primary and secondary evil is culled from the book's preface.[15] Many of the details from the scene where Sarchie and Butler encounter the family living in one room of a haunted house are taken directly from the first chapter of the book.[16]
Casting
Initially, Mark Wahlberg was set to star.[4] On November 9, 2012 The Wrap posted that Eric Bana was in talks to join the film, playing the lead role as a New York cop.[6] On April 9, 2013 Bana confirmed his role in the film as a Catholic cop, and Olivia Munn and Édgar Ramírez were set to co-star as the cop's wife and a priest respectively.[7] On May 28, 2013 Joel McHale and Sean Harris also joined the film; McHale played Bana's partner, a tough and experienced cop.[8] Dorian Missick joined cast on June 5 to play the role of the cop Gordon.[10] Other cast members include Chris Coy, Rhona Fox, and Valentina Rendón.[9]
Filming
Principal photography began on June 3, 2013 in New York City.[17] After wrapping up filming in New York in the end of July, production moved to Abu Dhabi at the start of August 2013.[18][19] Production filmed scenes at the Liwa Oasis desert in Abu Dhabi.[20][21] According to Empire State Development Corporation, Deliver Us from Evil spent more than $19 million in New York state over the course of its 34-day shoot in New York City and on Long Island. The production paid $7 million to New York residents, hiring some 700 cast and crew as well as more than 400 extras.[22]
Marketing
On December 23, 2013, the first photo from the film was released.[23] The film's first trailer was released on YouTube on March 7, 2014,[24][25] followed by another international trailer on April 10.[26] On May 14 another trailer was released.[27]
Release
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The film was released on July 2, 2014 in 3,049 locations in the United States.[28]
Critical reception
The film holds an
Writing for Variety, Andrew Barker's review called it "a professionally assembled genre mashup that's too silly to be scary, and a bit too dull to be a midnight-movie guilty pleasure".[31] Critic Peter Keough of The Boston Globe wrote that the film is atmospheric but "the story soon devolves into variations of many movies we have seen before".[32] Bilge Ebiri of New York Magazine called it "a thoroughly generic exorcism film" and concluded, "There are some half-decent scares ... But the film's real problem is that it's somehow both one-note and convoluted."[33] Ben Sachs wrote in The Chicago Reader that Derrickson "demonstrates a knack for atmosphere but little sense of pacing". Of the film's atmosphere, Sachs wrote that "some sequences are effectively spooky" but "just as many feel uninspired".[34] Moira Macdonald of The Seattle Times described it as "a pretty routine and occasionally silly demonic-possession flick, which distinguishes itself by making us wait so long for the exorcism that heads may be spinning in the audience as well". Macdonald added, "Some of it's shivery, but a lot of it is familiar from similar movies."[35] Rafer Guzman of Newsday wrote, "Thanks to a fine cast, solid direction by Scott Derrickson and an idiosyncratic soundtrack by The Doors, the movie's mandatory cliches – Latin invocations, gurgling demons – are far more tolerable than usual."[36] Bill Stamets in The Chicago Sun Times stated, "Director Scott Derrickson and his co-writer, Paul Harris Boardman, deliver a routine procedural with unremarkable frights".[37]
Box office
Deliver Us from Evil did well at the box office. It had earned $2.8 million on its opening day. In its opening weekend, the film earned $9.5 million ranking at number four at the box office in the United States, behind the box office champion, Transformers: Age of Extinction.[3]
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- ^ a b Foreman, Liza (November 9, 2012). "Eric Bana in talks for Paranormal Police Thriller 'Beware the Night'". thewrap.com. Archived from the original on January 21, 2014. Retrieved December 27, 2013.
- ^ a b c Fleming, Mike Jr. (April 9, 2013). "Screen Gems Sets Eric Bana, Edgar Ramirez And Olivia Munn For Exorcism Pic 'Beware The Night'". deadline.com. Retrieved December 28, 2013.
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