Although director Lee Daniels isn’t precisely new to horror, the primary trailer for Netflix’s The Deliverance makes it appear to be he’s hitting his stride with the style.
Impressed by the 2011 reports of a haunting in Gary, Indiana, The Deliverance tells the story of Ebony Jackson (Andra Day), a girl from Pennsylvania whose life is upended as her sons Andre (Anthony B. Jenkins) and Nate (Caleb McLaughlin) are affected by a malevolent entity.
Whereas it’s apparent that Ebony’s at her wit’s finish as she brings in Reverend Bernice James (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) to exorcize her sons, it’s additionally clear that others — like social employee Cynthia Henry (Mo’Nique) and churchgoer Alberta (Glenn Shut) — aren’t certain what to make of the mom’s scenario. The trailer’s unsettling pictures of Andre guzzling milk and being drowned in a bath by his brother each learn as indicators of them being underneath the affect of a supernatural drive. However it additionally looks like The Deliverance will attempt to depart some query as as to if what’s occurring to the Jackson household is definitely otherworldly and the way a lot of it would simply be religiously fueled delusion.
The Deliverance is slated to hit Netflix on August thirtieth.
Correction, July sixteenth: An earlier model of this text misstated the Jacksons’ household identify in a single occasion as “Jenkins.”