Deliver Us From Evil is another supernatural horror movie from Scott Derrickson, director of The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Sinster. It stars Eric Bana, Joel McHale, Edgar Ramirez, and Olivia Munn.
When I first saw the trailer for this movie, I was intrigued by the trailer, which had some good scares within it. While the movie was not as good as the trailer, it was still a serviceable horror movie. The overall story is relatively decent, it comes off as very by the numbers. The performances also come off as by the numbers which doesn't help the movie, but it doesn't hurt. What really makes the movie enjoyable is the atmosphere Derrickson creates with the dilapidated apartments and creepy visuals. While some of what helps the atmosphere is flashing lights, there are some very well executed shots of scary things happening (one scene in particular happening after hours in a mental institution).
Some of the negatives with the movie are with the scares, most them being jump scares. Many of the jump scares are "false alarms" and unintentionally hilarious. Derrickson already had a creepy atmosphere, he didn't need a jump scare every ten seconds. The only performance that I had an issue with was Edgar Ramirez. For the majority of the film he just seemed robotic and uninteresting. It wasn't until the end when I started to enjoy his performance.
I would recommend Deliver Us From Evil, but have medium expectations going in, do not expect something like Sinister. It's a by the numbers horror film that does it job well.
3/5
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