‘The Deliverance’ Review: Lee Daniels Directs a Demonic-Possesion Movie in Which the Real Demons Are Personal (and Flamboyant)

Daniels reaches into the bag of levitating, skin-mottling, cracking-spider-limb tricks that have been propelling this genre for decades. The “twist” is that Ebony ends up squaring off against herself, literally facing down her own demons. But it turns out those demons were only even halfway interesting when they were real.