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To Ask a Nun to “Deliver Us” From Evil in a Movie Requires Questioning Faith.

What the Movie “Deliver Us” Isn’t Quite Nunsploitation. Instead It Questions the Deals with the Devil That Nobody Wants to Make….

Deliver Us Movie PosterMagnet Releasing
Now Playing in Select Theatres

Just how many movies exist about nuns facing off against an ancient evil depends on whether horror fans accept this subgenre can stand on its own. I’m sure film historians are on the fence in accepting what “Nun horror” is about and with more than a dozen films issued to date, I’m none too curious to really want to watch them all. The latest, titled Deliver Us, was released a few weeks after The Nun II. As for which movie is better, I’m favouring this one.

That’s because this movie is like The Omen. It begins with Father Saul (Thomas Kretsch) confronting a bunch of Zoroastrians and that resulted in a bloodbath of decapitated persons. And the fight isn’t over. He’s sent to Estonia to investigate a strange virgin birth. Sister Yulia (Maria Vera Ratti) is ready to deliver twins, and it’s one of those strange pregnancies that only fans of Star Wars can appreciate. According to an ancient prophecy, one will become the Messiah and the other the Antichrist.

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Mali Elfman’s Haunting Next Exit is Ready to Be Found

Mali Elfman’s film Next Exit is headed to theatres after Halloween than during, and that’s okay for those who are not in a hurry to die.

Next Exit PosterOpening Nov 4, 2022 in theatres and VOD

“Do you believe in ghosts?”

Mali Elfman‘s search an afterlife gets answered in her haunting movie, Next Exit. It’s headed to select theatres and VOD after Halloween, and the timing is perhaps on purpose so that those people wanting scares can get just that in October, and more thoughtful discourses on the month following. After a successful run at Fantasia (review here), it’s been picked up by Magnet Releasing.

This filmmaker said, “My grandmother would ask me this before she passed away. She wanted to understand what would happen next. I used to tell her, ‘I don’t know what ghosts are, but I do know that there is more to life than what I know – and yes, I do believe that they are real in a way. I believe we make them real.’

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