Lee Daniels’ The Deliverance can’t pray away the demons in new trailer

Though manager Lee Daniels isn’t precisely new to horror, the archetypal trailer for Netflix’s The Deliverance makes it look similar he’s hitting his stride with the genre.

Inspired by the 2011 reports of a haunting successful Gary, Indiana, The Deliverance tells the communicative of Ebony Jackson (Andra Day), a pistillate from Pennsylvania whose beingness is upended arsenic her sons Andre (Anthony B. Jenkins) and Nate (Caleb McLaughlin) are tormented by a malevolent entity. 

While it’s evident that Ebony’s astatine her wits extremity arsenic she brings successful Reverend Bernice James (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) successful to exorcize her sons, it’s besides wide that others — similar societal idiosyncratic Cynthia Henry (Mo’Nique) and churchgoer Alberta (Glenn Close) — aren’t definite what to marque of the mother’s situation. The trailer’s unsettling shots of Andre guzzling beverage and being drowned successful a tub by his member some work arsenic signs of them being nether the power of a supernatural force. But it besides feels similar The Deliverance will effort to permission immoderate question arsenic to whether what’s happening to the Jenkins household is really otherworldly, and however overmuch of it mightiness conscionable beryllium a religiously-fueled delusion.

The Deliverance is slated to deed Netflix connected August 30th.