Who needs spooky when you have a knife-wielding, wise-cracking, Alice in Chains-loving sidekick?
Joel McHale gets sassy with Édgar Ramírez and Eric Bana in Deliver Us From Evil.
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Deliver Us From Evil is a horror film about Bronx policeman Ralph Sarchie (Eric Bana), who finds himself investigating a demonic possession with the help of sexy former heroin-addict priest Mendoza (Édgar Ramírez). As far as exorcism flicks go, it's depressingly boilerplate stuff — the edgiest aspect is that it claims to be based on the true stories of the real Ralph Sarchie, a former cop who engaged in some demonology on the side, then wrote a book about it.
Director Scott Derrickson, who's slated to helm a Doctor Strange movie for Marvel, has made better horror films before (like 2012's Sinister) — he's even made better based-on-a-true-story exorcism dramas before (2005's The Exorcism of Emily Rose). But there's one thing Deliver Us From Evil, which opens in theaters today, has going for it: Joel McHale, who plays Ralph's wiseass partner Butler, aka the only character in the movie who seems to realize he's in a very silly story being told very seriously. Here's why he's great:
He wears a backwards baseball cap and an Alice in Chains T-shirt.
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While Ralph is and looks like a character right out of every television police procedural (with added supernatural sensitivity), Butler, for whatever reason, dresses like a nü-metal-loving frat boy. The cap, there to spark an early conversation to reinforce Ralph's extreme New Yorkiness, is a Red Sox one. After putting it on backward (presumably for his own protection in Yankee territory), Butler just leaves it that way for most of the movie. Also, he rocks cargo pants and has the seven deadly sins tattooed on the back of his neck for reasons unrelated to the demonic shenanigans being investigated.
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