Deliver Us From Evil does what it says on the tin and provides a straightforward genre piece.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 30, 2024

Scott Derrickson’s Deliver Us From Evil comes across and is masked as a paranormal horror film, but really it’s more of a crime drama about a man who has his own demons...

| Original Score: B | Aug 19, 2024

Deliver us from Evil is quite a good horror movie, though it falls short of anything like greatness. It has a fantastic cast anchored by the aforementioned Bana and Joel McHale, and features some truly grotesque imagery and tense situations.

| Oct 18, 2023

Formulaic storytelling and glaring plot holes plague a film that tries to balance horror and cop procedural tropes into a half-hearted meditation on Christian faith.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 5, 2022

One man's "Putting the Hell in the movie-going experience" is, well, another man's slightly different same.

| Jul 14, 2021

Combining things that go bump in the night with graphic gore, it's a brooding if not exactly riveting ride soundtracked by The Doors as the spirits try to 'Break On Through'.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 26, 2021

The thing that really sinks the movie's momentum aren't the stock characters or lack of new thrills but the exposition scenes that explain the obvious.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 1, 2021

It has some nice qualities and a pretty good climactic scene, but the use of well-known formulas and an uneven tone prevents it from being anything more than just ... what it is.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 20, 2020

Powerful is an understatement. Deliver Us from Evil is a fully sensory and terrifying experience capped off with a spellbinding performance by Edgar Ramirez.

| Dec 14, 2019

It's hard not to want to avert your eyes and that makes up, marginally, for the otherwise clichéd screenplay.

| Aug 14, 2019

[Director Scott Derrickson] arrives well-equipped with an intuitive sense of genre-specific trickery, yet this heavily derivative psychological horror ultimately fails to add depth and character to a disappointing mélange of predictable jumps and scares.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2019

Derrickson fails to convince us that his film is anything more than a run-of-the-mill creep show, but at the very least it delivers scares aplenty.

| Original Score: 6.9/10 | Apr 2, 2019

Deliver us from Evil offers too much of the same thing... may future horror films deliver us from the evils of repetitiveness.

| Mar 8, 2019

Director Scott Derrickson... gets the mood right and builds some suspense. Unfortunately, it leads to a rather pedestrian finish that feels like reheated leftovers from much better films.

| Feb 1, 2019

Deliver Us from Evil is an okay way to get a few shivers to combat the summer heat. It's derivative and doesn't totally hang together, but it gets the job done.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 12, 2019

Overall, I recommend it, you may not find it frightening but I'm pretty sure you will be entertained.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 15, 2018

... if you are looking for a few screams, jumps and subsequent spillage of popcorn then you could do a lot worse than go and see this movie.

| Aug 22, 2018

I will say that there are some genuinely creepy scenes in the film. It is clear that there were a lot of great, unconnected ideas behind the film, but unfortunately all of these sincere scares got strung together without much context.

| Aug 21, 2018

Derrickson has something important to say. He just needs to learn not to say it.

| Aug 7, 2018

While it isn't in the league of, say, Insidious or The Ring, Deliver Us From Evil packs in a mixed bag of thrills that is, at times, deeply disturbing by virtue of using the kind of horror tropes that are more psychological than gory.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 14, 2017