End Credits #358 - September 25, 2024 (The Deliverance)

This week on End Credits, we get the jump on October. We can't wait another six days for the spookiest month of the year to properly begin so we're going to kick things off with Satan! For the review this week, we're going to watch the new horror flick The Deliverance on Netflix, and we're going to talk about history's greatest super-villain, and his greatest hits!

This Wednesday, September 18, at 3 pm, Adam A. Donaldson and Candice Lepage will discuss:

Hail Satan! The Devil was the villain of the first horror movie in 1898, and he's been a recurring villain in cinema ever since. The Devil, Beelzebub, Satan, or whatever term you want to use, is a key character or antagonist in all kinds of movies, whether it's straight-up Biblical like The Passion of the Christ, or musically helping a baseball team beat New York in Damn Yankees, The Devil is reel (see what we did there), and this week, we will hail his cinematic contributions.

REVIEW: The Deliverance (2024). Lee Daniels dips his toes in the horror genre for the first time by walking the well-worn path of the exorcism subgenre. About a year after a commercially and critically attempt to reboot The Exorcist, the accomplished Daniels' takes his turn to answer the question: How do you rally faith in a faithless era? Led by The United States Vs. Billie Holiday star Andra Day and Oscar-nominee Glenn Close, The Deliverance aims to put a Black working class spin on an old tale, so is it able to deliver the goods, or have we exorcised all juice from the genre?

End Credits is on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca Wednesday at 3 pm.