Have a hankering to watch a religious horror film? Then boy oh boy, have I got the movie for you.
Magnolia Pictures and Magnet Releasing are bringing to a screen near you the movie, Deliver Us, which, as the trailer shows, features a nun pregnant with twins who gets a little too close to a priest investigating her claims that she’s pregnant by God and that one of the twins is Good, and the other, Evil.
Here’s the official synopsis:
According to an ancient prophecy, a woman will give birth to identical twin boys; one the Messiah, the other the Antichrist. After a Russian nun claims to have immaculately conceived twins, the Vatican sends a priest to investigate. There he discovers a secret society, Vox Dei, that plans to kill the Nun and her children.
“Deliver Us is a theological horror film that explores religious prophecies from various cultures throughout history,” directors Lee Roy Kunz and Cru Ennis said in a statement. “A universal thread in world religions is the story of feuding brothers: Cain and Abel, Thor and Loki, Set and Osiris, Zeus and Hades, and in our case Jesus and Lucifer. We center our story around identical twin brothers to tap into this cultural consciousness and to explore ‘the problem of evil’–the question of why a good and all-powerful God would permit the flourishing of evil. By presenting this existential dilemma within the horror genre, we aim to engage viewers on multiple levels to not just frighten but provide a thought-provoking experience.”
The films stars Maria Vera Ratti (The Lying Life of Adults), Lee Roy Kunz (Pretty Little Liars), Aleksander Mikoš McCarthy, Hans Robert Varts, Alexander Siddig (who will forever be Doctor Julian Bashir to me), Jaune Kimmel, and Thomas Kretschmann (Penny Dreadful: City of Angels).
Deliver Us premiers in theaters and digital on-demand on September 29, 2023. Here’s the movie’s poster, for your existential enjoyment:
