Delivered Me From Mediocrity

Well, a new week is dawning, and a storm of unprecedented shittiness in Trailerland has parted, leaving everything all dewy and crisp and fresh. The Departed is #1 at the box office, Ridley Scott announced his next project and now this; a truly snap-crackling trailer from the controversial documentary, Deliver Us From Evil. It's a stick of tramatic childhood dynamite that explodes in your face just like with that fat professor on Lost who was only in it for 3 episodes so they could stage a comedic death. And similarly, flabby pieces of emotional pain fly from the blast like big meaty projectiles, hitting the hearts of all that care to be captivated by this revealing look into the dark side of the Catholic church. Well.... one of the dark sides of the Catholic church.

The trailer is amazing. Amazing doesn't seem like an accurate word to describe the trailer to a movie about child abuse and molestation by Catholic priests and the cover-ups and scandals that ensue, but honestly, I don't care what's right and wrong, politically correct and incorrect. It's just a fucking amazing trailer.

The music for one did it for me the most. Johnny Cash's 'God's Gonna Cut You Down' playing over some pretty uncomfortable images was a totally surprising and edgy direction in my eyes, but a completely effective and welcome one. I'm actually becoming a slight fan of Ol' Johnny Cash, because I keep hearing songs which I immediately catch right onto. And this is one of those. Perfect trailer music. Absolutely perfect for what it's trying to convey. Serious in it's tone, but not so serious that it makes you dread the movie.
The audience's perception would have been a big problem for marketers of this project, because let's face it, a lot of people don't want to see the Catholic church demonised like it obviously is here, and even more people don't want to hear the atrocities that some children have gone through.

I, thankfully, was not one of the 100,000 children to have sex with a clergyman. They're simply not my type, what with those old robes and those huge, pointless staves that they hobble around the cathedrals with. Yee-uck.
Unfortunately, there are those that did succumb to that nightmarish fate, however, Deliver Us From Evil is not just their sob stories (although there appears to be a bit of that thrown in). This looks to be a helpful film, about exposing the truth behind why these crimes happened, and why they haven't been dealt with in a proper manner, if at all.

As a film, there seems to be a great deal of importance here. As a trailer, there's no real flaws that I can see. To make a movie about old men fucking small tots into an enjoyable and rewatchable thing is something to behold. Definately.
I just hope more people are going to the same "How To Make A Decent Movie Trailer 101" lessons as the people that made this trailer. Keep delivering trailers like this, and I'll start believing!


Deliver Us From Evil - Lionsgate
Anticipation Level: Medium.
Look out for: The priests being grilled on the witness stand. Priceless.
US Release date: 13th October, 2006.
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