Deliver Us from Evil

Wouldn't it be nice if we were younger?

We're going to talk about, yeah, a movie that came out at the turn of the millennia, which is Hellraiser Inferno, directed by Scott Derrickson, who is now super famous for have done Black Phone 1 and 2, Sinister, Deliver Us From Evil, Exorcism of Emily Rose, Doctor Strange.

And he also co-wrote, I think, Urban Legends Final Cut that came out the same year.

Yeah.

I mean like the early 2010 slop type shit, like Victor Frankenstein and...

Sinister 2 and Deliver Us From Evil and all the Purge movies, all the Underworld movies, Dark Skies, Woman in Black 2.

How the fuck did that go to theaters? Silent Hill 2, Priest, Red Riding Hood, Dylan Dog, Dead of Night.

Fuck you.

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To be fair, to be fair, I understand why everyone else here hates Deliver Us From Evil.

Okay, yes.

I understand that I'm like the problem here.

It's not because I can only see him as a comedian.

It's because we did a live show with Scott Derrickson at Fantastic Fest where we talked about Deliver Us From Evil.

And Scott Derrickson went on this this whole sidebar about how Joel McHale is an obsessive knife fan and collects knives and like is all about like this is what would actually happen.

He's basically Benicio Del Toro in The Hunted, but as a real person.

In fact, it was called the Day of the Dead.

So we're going to be talking today with an author of a book that, in fact, explores some of these more malevolent spaces.

Her name is Lisa Collier-Cool.

She actually...

I first met Lisa years ago when we collaborated on a book together, a best-selling book, Bad Boys, Why We Love Them, How to Live With Them, and When to Leave Them.

And she has also gone on, or before and after, to be a best-selling author of five other books.

And she's the winner of 19 journalism awards for articles in America's popular publications.

and websites, including the Wall Street Journal, the Reader's Digest, Family Circle, Good Housekeeping, and dozens more.

Is this the only film shot at the Bronx Zoo? No way.

The 2014 horror film Deliver Us From Evil.

I don't remember that.

Yeah.

So really, what, it's down to Deliver Us From Evil and altered states? That's fucking mental.

That's crazy.

It can't be.

Some of her TV series credits include the upcoming Alex Carey Project, which is on Apple+, The Hunting Party, The Mad About You Reboot, Bull, The Deuce, FBI, Blindspot, Law & Order, Law & Order Special Victims Units, Blue Bloods, The Sopranos, and the untitled Alex Carey Project.

Her film work includes The Electric State, 31 Candles, The Mayflower, Deliver Us from Evil, Team Marco, Delirious.

She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Drama League Directing Fellow, SAG-AFTRA, Actors' Equity, and some of her awards include the Fox Fellowship, the Anna Sosenko Grant, BroadwayWorld.com, CT Best Actress Award, CT Critics Circle Award, And her education includes a master in fine arts from the Tisch NYU School, the Moscow Art Theater, and the Philip Goliath and Complicite.

I think I did all right with that French.

well you know what it should have been a red door but okay So she calls a person named Nora and reports that they found her.

And Nora is played by Blair Sams, 22 credits, an episode of American Horror Story, Irresistible, and Deliver Us From Evil.

She also is in three episodes of Long Bright River and an episode of The Hunching Party.

Now, we don't see Nora here.

But I, I'm excited to do this because, and hear your perspective on it, 'cause I have my, I've done my own deep dives into it in the past.

I talked to, um, Ralph Sarchie, who, you know, they made the movie Deliver Us From Evil based on his book.

Mm-hmm.

And he was a NYPD cop who was also, like, an exorcist sort of thing, and he had his thoughts on it.

They're just happy it's no longer with them.

them.Yes, and, and that was the thing, is this movie defies so many conventions of movies like Sinister and Deliver Us From Evil, and like, like all these movies that it's like, okay, if there's gonna be some kind of demon or whatever, it's like they slowly roll in, there are some shocks, Insidious, discover, explore the rules, figure out the structure, third climax, will we pay it off and defeat it or not? They subvert that constantly.

The, the creature is out in public.

Nobody calls them crazy because stuff starts to happen in front of other people that no one can explain.