Megan McCluskey in Time Magazine:
Opening with a title card that claims its story is “inspired by true events,” The Deliverance chronicles the plight of the Pittsburgh-based Jackson family as they contend with a demonic possession that threatens to destroy them from the inside out. Directed by Lee Daniels (Precious, The Butler) from a screenplay he co-wrote with Elijah Bynum (Magazine Dreams) and David Coggeshall (Orphan: First Kill), the new religiously-fueled horror, which received a limited theatrical release on Aug. 16 before arriving on Netflix Aug. 30, is a dramatization of the alleged haunting of the Ammons family that took place in Gary, Ind., in 2011.
The movie stars Andra Day as Ebony Jackson, a fictionalized version of Latoya Ammons, a mother of three who began experiencing what she claimed were supernatural occurrences—from infestations of flies to the sounds of footsteps and doors opening in the night—after moving herself, her mother (played by Glenn Close), and her children (played by Caleb McLaughlin, Demi Singleton, and Andre B. Jenkins) into a rental home in Gary that has since come to be known as the Demon House of Indiana.
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