Director: Lee Daniels
Single mother Ebony Jackson is only looking for a fresh start when she moves her family into a new house in this 2024 horror-thriller directed by Lee Daniels.
What is The Deliverance about?
The new home promises stability after years of struggle, but it doesn't take long for Ebony to sense that something was already living there before her family arrived. As her children begin acting strangely and the house itself seems to turn against them, she has to decide whether to trust her own instincts or the skepticism of everyone around her, including a caseworker who reads the family's unraveling as neglect rather than something darker. The film builds its tension around a mother fighting two threats at once: an unseen presence in her home, and a system quick to doubt her.
Cast & crew
Andra Day leads as Ebony, anchoring the film's emotional stakes with a performance built on exhaustion and fierce protectiveness. Glenn Close and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor bring weight to the surrounding adult roles, while Mo'Nique, Tasha Smith, and Omar Epps round out a cast that keeps the drama grounded even as the supernatural elements escalate. Caleb McLaughlin and Demi Singleton play the children at the center of the haunting.
Context & significance
Director Lee Daniels, known for dramas built around family strain and social pressure, brings that same sensibility to horror territory here, treating the possession story as inseparable from the family's financial precarity and the scrutiny poor families face from institutions meant to help them. The result sits closer to social drama with supernatural trappings than straightforward genre horror, using dread to sharpen a story about a mother running out of allies.
Where & how to watch
The Deliverance streams on K-Time with both Farsi subtitles and a Persian dub, in addition to the original English audio. Anyone can read the film's page without logging in, and watching the film itself only requires a free K-Time account, with the full site experience available in Farsi for the Iranian diaspora.