DELIVER US FROM EVIL (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Eric Bana (Munich), Édgar Ramírez (The Bourne Ultimatum), Olivia Munn (Magic Mike), Sean Harris (Prometheus), Joel McHale (Community), Chris Coy (True Blood), Dorian Missick (The Manchurian Candidate), Valentina Rendón (Happy Fists)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Scott Derrickson (Sinister), director, writer; Paul Harris Boardman (Devil’s Knot), writer; Jerry Bruckheimer (Pirates of the Caribbean), producer; Christopher Young (Spider-Man 3), composer; Scott Kevan (Death Race), cinematographer; Jason Hellmann (The Grey), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Ralph Sarchie (Bana), a New York cop struggling with personal issues, begins investigating a series of disturbing crimes and teams himself up with a Castilian priest named Mendoza (Ramírez), who manages to convince Sarchie that these events are being caused by a sinister demonic presence…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Based on the actual accounts of the real-life police officer portrayed by Bana in the film, Deliver Us From Evil is a haunting examination of the supernatural integration into modern society as experienced by the one man who lived to tell the tale.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 22ND AUGUST 2014

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