The battle against the Antichrist is taken to the extreme in this submarine and an exciting religious horror

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The battle against the Antichrist is taken to the extreme in this submarine and an exciting religious horror

The 90s and early 2000s had their share of religious horror, but these days, the sub-genre seems to fall into some close categories: Demonic pregnancies, exorcisms and evil religious. At the time, religious horror films were almost like thrillers, often with satanic cults chased after pregnant women, as in End of days Or Bless the child. Sometimes Satan himself was involved, generally offering shaded but almost irresistible offers in the form of, let’s say, In the pacino. The results of this type of gender mixture were unequal, of course, but a recent example, Delivercould have what it takes to rekindle the interest in a more thriller religious horror.

The film plays with a lot of familiar tropes, like A nun is pregnant with the next messiah and her antichrist twin; There is even a cult element too. But the nun is not bad, and she gives birth fairly quickly, so most of the film looks at the tension of one of the sectators chasing her to stop what he believes to be the apocalypse. It is a violent thriller that extends through the beautiful Russian butreclace which is different from all religious horror of the past few years.

‘Deliver-Us’ goes for a bloody horror on supernatural fears

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When your film opens not only with several murders, but also with the The skin is taken off from the back of the victimsYou know you are in a good time. The backs in question contain huge tattoos which represent a prophecy of a woman who will give birth to the Messiah and the Antichrist as twins. Sister Yulia (Maria Vera Ratti) finds herself later as the woman in question and calls for help from Father Fox (Co-Scenarist and Director Lee Roy Kunz), who is about to leave the priesthood to start his own family. Children’s design is shown as “immaculate”– Also sudden, painful and terrifying. But it is not a slow combustion film on the fears of pregnancy; Yulia gives birth in fact fairly quickly, although Deliver Ensures to integrate into more than a few uncomfortable scenes before giving birth to it, as the twins wearing its stomach.

Birth itself is not so horrible, but it is certainly stressful, because Yulia is forced to give birth to a moving train while being driven by the last remaining cult member, which is really part of an obscure Christian sect – instead of being a satanist or a pagan worship as we often see in religious horror. Even without as many visuals common to most religious horrors -there is no ramp upside down, no horrible demon babies, no exorcism -Gone -Brong –Deliver is always full of disturbing images and a lot of violence. The bad member of the sect, Father Saul (Thomas Kretschmann), continues Yuila, Father Fox, and a second priest, Cardinal Russo (Alexander Siddig), through a Russian winter landscape, and he has no qualms about murdering anyone who sets out – and, as the opening scene should tell you, He can be vicious in his methodsEven leaving one of his torn victims in tatters.

Good and evil are not so black and white in “Give us”

The violent nature of Father Saul during his search for Yulia and her children is the anchor of most of the horror in Deliver. There are surreal dreams with overwhelming images, and even if it is not real, a particular scene can be very Dusting for those who don’t like to see babies in danger. There is also the occasional flash of a scary child, but Most real blood and death are not supernatural– He is just a marked and pushing man leaving a trace of blood through Russia as he seeks the group of Yulia. The film is effective in maintaining high tension by always cutting between Yulia and her companions who take care of her children in a peaceful and isolated hiding place The relentless prosecution of the priest they do not know is always on the tail.

Interesting, because Father Saul is not a worshiper of Satan, His character lets the film present an interesting moral questionthe one who, strangely, fans of The Fantastic Four: First steps Will recognize: killing a child to save all of humanity the right thing to do? Father Saul does not want to hurt in particular Yulia; He just seems to really believe that it is his duty as a man of God to kill the Antichrist and to prevent the apocalypse. And there are a lot of implications that Something speaks through twins To encourage this belief, not only in Saul, but also in several other characters. In fact, the culmination of the film is all about this idea of doing something terrible for the greatest good, and by placing the villain on the side of God (as opposed to trying to allow Satan or another horrible demon to take control of the world), the morality of his opinions to this concept is not as cut as usual (even if his methods fall definitively).

It is a strong counterpoint to The total faith of Yulia – which raises the two children is what God really wantsWith Father Fox as a conflict priest in the middle. Deliver Not only offers a good old -fashioned horror thriller; He also uses his religious angle to ask a potentially difficult moral question. Thus, even in calm moments between violence and bad whispers of aspects of religious horror, there is always a feeling of dread and tension for the public when they try to understand the right thing to do alongside the characters on the screen.