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

Lee Daniels’ latest horror project hits Netflix this August.

Inspired by the 2011 reports of a haunting in Gary, Indiana, The Deliverance tells the story of Ebony Jackson (Andra Day), a woman from Pennsylvania whose life is upended as her sons Andre (Anthony B. Jenkins) and Nate (Caleb McLaughlin) are tormented by a malevolent entity. While it’s obvious that Ebony’s at her wits end as she brings in Reverend Bernice James (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) in to exorcize her sons, it’s also clear that others — like social worker Cynthia Henry (Mo’Nique) and churchgoer Alberta (Glenn Close) — aren’t sure what to make of the mother’s situation. The trailer’s unsettling shots of Andre guzzling milk and being drowned in a tub by his brother both read as signs of them being under the influence of a supernatural force.

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