Imagine the rank, pungent horror of William Friedkin’s rather foul and f*cked up horror, 1973’s original faint-inducing “The Exorcist” (excellent, but harrowing).
Then recall the brutal, sometimes nasty side of Lee Daniel’s unflinching, sometimes hard-to-watch Sundance hit “Precious.” Smash them together like the sound of two skulls cracking together with a sound so excruciating it makes you shudder, and you have a very good approximation of “The Deliverance,” Daniel’s latest horror film and social drama, which features similar excessive and miserablist ‘Based on The Novel Push By Sapphire’ tendencies.
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