Although kidded by Butler about his “internal radar”, both are proud of Sarchie’s gift for sensing what will be the more high profile and intriguing crime as opposed to the run-of-the-mill mugging. Ralph Sarchie and his partner Butler are as different as night and day but a perfect pairing on the crime beat of the 46th Precinct. While Sarchie is very real, his religious counterpart in the film, Father Mendoza, is an amalgamation of both the exorcizing bishop and a Catholic priest known for his books on demonology and exorcism. Inspired by Sarchie’s book, DELIVER US FROM EVIL takes those real life experiences and Sarchie’s work with a Catholic bishop who performed exorcisms and who taught Sarchie to be an assistant in the rite of exorcism, melding the horrifically true events with a fictional narrative structured from real individuals and situations. DELIVER US FROM EVIL is a fully sensory and terrifying experience capped off with a spellbinding performance by Edgar Ramirez. It’s as if the people, the events, the evil on screen is searing our minds, etching our skin. It is this book that piqued the curiosity of producer Jerry Bruckheimer who then brought in Scott Derrickson to bring Sarchie’s story to the big screen.ĭerrickson has a gift, and never moreso than with DELIVER US FROM EVIL over his other films, of not only immersing us within the world of what most consider intangible primary evil, but imbues every fiber of our being with the experience. It is through his 2001 book “Beware the Night” that Sarchie related the horrors of hell on earth linking true crime and supernatural demonic terror. Sarchie, a 26-year veteran of NYPD with over 300 arrests and 7 commendations to his credit, while on the force began investigating “true crimes of inhuman evil” which revealed themselves to be cases of demonic possession, leading Sarchie to study and assist in exorcisms.

Ralph Sarchie’s crime laden world of the Bronx’s 46th Precinct. As he did with “Sinister”, Derrickson again not only dives headfirst into a world of demonology, rooted in centuries of faith, fact, fiction, but blends it with true stories inspired by NYPD Sgt. With DELIVER US FROM EVIL, one thing is certain – no one should ever deliver us from the genius that is director Scott Derrickson.

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