5/7/2023 0 Comments Deliver us from evil![]() ![]() He kisses crosses and Catholic medals, using them as talismans crucifixes hang in homes and even on a dog’s collar. He presses crosses against the foreheads of the possessed and sprinkles them with holy water. We hear Mendoza recite prayers and softly sing in Latin. “I chose God.” And while Sarchie doesn’t believe in God when the movie begins (despite having been an altar boy as a child), the policeman is given plenty of reasons to change his mind. “It always comes down to a choice,” he says. Mendoza, we learn, was once a drug addict who turned to God and the priesthood after nearly dying. And this exorcism movie is soaked with faith references and spiritual allusions. The movie’s title, Deliver Us From Evil, is, of course, a direct reference to the Lord’s Prayer. And maybe, just maybe, God’s still putting Sarchie in the right place to fight an even bigger evil. Mendoza suggests that maybe, just maybe, God put Sarchie in the right place at the right time. … Where was God when this was happening?” He says that as a boy he “outgrew” God when he had to fend off a meth addict who was hurting his mother. What, we’re talking possession now? Sarchie rolls his eyes at the thought. When he shows pictures of these messages to a Catholic priest named Mendoza, the father tells him that they’re inscriptions that invite unimaginable evil to come hither. It’s about painting, then covering strange glyphs and writings in Persian and Latin. Sarchie soon discovers that Santino’s painting business isn’t just about slapping a little color on walls. Oh, and the dead dude had just started a painting business with another old Army friend, Santino, who is now showing up in the oddest of places. The basement corpse used to be a guy who was married to the woman who tossed that poor infant to the lions. Then Sarchie notices some connections: The wife beater and the basement corpse served together in Iraq. Instead, Sarchie and Butler discover a dead body.Ī strange couple of nights? Perhaps, but certainly not unheard of. Soon it’s on to checking out strange noises and smells in a family’s basement-which, 99 times out of 100, are caused by overactive mice and overactive imaginations. Then they investigate a case where a lady tossed her baby into the lions’ pen at the zoo. He and Butler first bust a guy who beats his wife. He’s so adept at sniffing out trouble that his partner, Butler, says he has radar.Īnd Sarchie’s radar has led him somewhere truly black this time. He’s dealt with murderers, rapists and every other lowlife you can imagine, even some you can’t. As a Brooklyn police sergeant, he’s seen it all. Ralph Sarchie already knew plenty about evil. ![]()
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