Lee Daniels’ The Deliverance can’t pray away the demons in new trailer

/ Director Lee Daniels’ new supernatural thriller starring Mo’Nique and Glenn Close is headed to Netflix this August.

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Though director Lee Daniels isn’t exactly new to horror, the first trailer for Netflix’s The Deliverance makes it seem like he’s hitting his stride with the genre.

Inspired by the 2011 reports of a haunting in Gary, Indiana, The Deliverance tells the story

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