The Deliverance

The Deliverance: After hearing of one particularly haunted house located in Gary, Indiana, Zak Bagans who is known for doing paranormal investigations, purchased the house sight un-seen and even made part of that story into the documentary titled Demon House, 2018 about it (review here) which he acted in.

Prior to this turn of events the house was owned by Latoya Ammons who is something of a local celebrity for telling the authorities and actually getting believed that an evil spirit haunted her family until they finally left.

In one of the early scenes of the documentary, Bagans tries to ask Ammons and her mother to share their strange experiences as they approached closer to them but on that occasion, Ammons and her mother refuse on the particular that he was inside the house and so has the evil spirit and could bring it back to them.

Ironically, the film also claims that Ammons and her mother were in touch with a Hollywood producer who was interested in making a film and therefore the two women were not in a position to assist Bagans with his project as they were scared of getting cursed for a second time.

It draws on this very word and its definition and it is a dramatized version of some true events that Ammons was particularly associated with or involved in. It appears that it wasn’t cheap as well. Based on the article on Deadline, Netflix outbid six other bidders for the film by reaching the sum of $65 million to pay not only the $30 million production cost but other buyouts.

This contrasting trend in the Logical Sequence makes me wonder why anyone would pay a cool dollar to own the rights to any one story and turn around and water down some significant aspects of that story in order to add or in this case amend ‘The Deliverance. based on the facts as they are presented with respect to the lead character Bonnie and the events of the film, the speculations made in such case would seem rather flimsy.

Speculation states Indiana was too humid and that migrated the film production from Indiana to Pittsburgh, which states profits-benefiting incentives, this point could only be attributed to the fact that Taxcredit of Pennsylvania was more marketable.

I cannot provide an appropriate explanation why amongst all possible years for ‘The Deliverance cued in the year 2011, whilst in fact the Ammons family was active in 2014, because what difference does time prevailing over three years make.

Most of the main names are granted transformation, but it is interesting that even latoya ammons which has epolouge text credited to herself and has associate producer credit, all had their main names changed too.

It is rather comical for the filmmakers to chop off trivial story identifiers in support of true stories, but keep instead the banal domestic drama to which they have enslaved themselves on when they should be more innovative and exuberant with even the wildest creativity.

Ebony Jackson’s case is a tough one. One might add that her unemployed partner is invariably based in Iraq hence, she is more like a complete housewife. She relocated with adult children; son Nate and daughter Shante, teenage son Andre and husband to a dilapidated residence in Pittsburgh full of bugs and the odor of rotten meat with a dead cat chilling out in the basement.

And her cranky mother Alberta moved in as well, looking like the things were not busy enough for Ebony already. They are literally busy also, so to say she is depicted as a multitask master who is folding his clothes in a furious manner when a call from a creditor is squeezed to her irritated ear by her shoulder.

Ebony comes home and makes no effort to hide the vodka bottle. She has abusive tendencies and while alcohol is not an excuse for them, unfortunately she is way short on patience toward her children which is why there are obvious reasons for lashing out at her underprivileged kids.

If mother is not beating them, then street boys bully both brothers together. And, sister Shante does the same designment with texts starting to write to their ‘father’ who is no more Caption through the cellphone’s broken screen.

Watching in the house for a movie with the family, everyone will pick the same classic British film, “Valley of the Dolls.” “The Jacksons’ watch it too much so that when Nate and Andre’s turn comes and the ladies do each other’s hair, they are often amused to hear lines being recited exactly as they were in the movie?” Even so, that part ends up in a similar fight as do birthday happenings where its origins stem from an overabundance of celebration from Ebony, too much drink, and Andre’s craziness showing its ugly head at last.

Having constructed in some forty minutes this stereotypical premise er, dated forty minutes longer than the average audience viewer which is less likely that this is an obnoxious family dwelling in poverty, a slap on the face brings back “The Deliverance” reminding it that there is supposed to be elements of supernatural horror into this emotional drama.

Ebony finds Dreaja slamming her head on the cellar door. He attributes it to a non-existent person called Trey who happens to be very violent and must be restrained by the police, suggestive terms and a vague only siren and good as all well quite sound away.

There is still one hour left in the movie at this juncture. Time that is not used is time that does not get used; there are only so many exchanges of “bitch” or multiple instances of it in a particular scene, thus “The Deliverance” does this biography of secondary characters, who perform no special role in the movie.

Omar Epps appears high in the credits but low down in the running order in the film playing a partner opposite Glenn Close in some dead end ‘romance’ for a total of two scenes, which were probably written for a white woman anyway.

Mo’Nique is a DCS caseworker that has some explaining to do to Jeffery’s young children but in terms of what she actually accomplishes in the movie, you will only witness a few annoying speedhumps that never ultimately convert Mo’Nique into an effective threat to Ebony or promote the kids’ quietude.

Ebony took the longest to act like any other parent in this thus all of a sudden familiar clash, after some time however she comes to terms with the fact that her son is possessed by a demon and seeks help from a woman. The woman isn’t one of those vainglorious black garbed men whose occupation is to Rome Priest. She is an “apostle, prophet, evangelist” who goes to slay people where the Lord sends her, whatever that means.

Owing to her notbeing a member of the Church, she cant do an exorcism proper. She is capable of doing ‘the deliverance’ somewhat safely in thesessy -which in reality: the same thing but not dressed up in thick enough pretensions that it is Jesus Christ you call in to exorcize the evil spirit.

‘And cannot forget about the usual scenes of full growling in deep voices, hoarsening, back bends, fly adversely, levitanvany and many others. In fact if you have seen it any where else in any other’s’ exorcist/ The Exorcist movies than you have seen it here also.’

At least at the face value one will give credit to the authority that the movie offers a message regarding families of which Jesus turns out to be the bricolage builder and later the proper head as well. The reason is simple in this case. Anyway without being so rude to the Duster and her family. Such as to never having to worry and be sorry for what you did and the consequences.

In the start, Director Lee Daniels avoids some of the violence that is directed against the brothers. Perhaps Ebony is the type of mother who beats her children when she is drunk. Perhaps there is an unseen element behind the door. That is an undesirable allegation in itself, but things worsen for Daniels when his film reaches a point where it asserts that a demon for no reason other than that this family moved into this house at this time, hunts this innocent family out.

With regard to “The Deliverance” I shall say exactly what I’ve already said while discussing “Demon House”. In depicting a low income household dealing with emotional violence, generations of violence, and severe situations in a setting which compromises the health because of its poor physical state, it is at least misplaced and more of sheer idiocy to accuse something which does not exist instead of focusing on the causes of domestic violence and poverty.

Although ‘The deliverance’ aspiring to what I assume is a new look, it struggles to shake off the unwelcome shackles of a common drama. It has it’s usual stock characters that don’t serve the plot, irrelevant horror elements which are forced into the story and are from dozens of demonic possession films and bombastic graphic exaggeration of some of the character drawings. Such thoughtless takeaways add up abnormal bad flavors in a mouth after all of the nearly two hours spent trying to painful ‘swallow’ the ‘hoops.

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