Review: ‘The Deliverance’ fails to ignite fear

• Lee Daniels’ ‘The Deliverance’ attempts to deliver thrills as a horror/thriller based on the Ammons haunting case but ultimately falls short. • The film features lackluster special effects, a weak script, and miscast performances, failing to evoke fear or emotional engagement. • Despite promising elements of a fright film, it lacks cohesion and depth, leaving audiences disappointed in its inability to deliver on the genre’s expectations. Whatever it says, don’t listen to it. It will play on your heart. It will play on your mind.” Nice dialogue for an Exorcist kind of movie. But not enough to hold this horror/thriller together for its entirety. The setup is pretty routine: A mom, Ebony (Andra Day,& The United States vs Billie Holiday), her mother (Glenn Close) and three school-age children move into a haunted Gary, Indiana home. Slowly her kids Nate (Caleb McLaughlin), Shante (Demi Singleton) and little Andre (Anthony B. Jenkins) start acting weird. Like they’re possessed. Turns out they are in the devil’s corridor and he’s messing with them. The script by David Coggeshall (Orphan: First Kill), Elijah Bynum (Magazine Dreams) and director/writer Lee Daniels (The United States vs Billie Holiday) is based on the Ammons haunting case, that...