Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Deliverance. Opening with a title card that claims its story is “inspired by true events,” The Deliverance chronicles the plight of the Pittsburgh-based Jackson family as they contend with a demonic possession that threatens to destroy them from the inside out. Directed by Lee Daniels (Precious, The Butler) from a screenplay he co-wrote with Elijah Bynum (Magazine Dreams) and David Coggeshall (Orphan: First Kill), the new religiously-fueled horror, which received a limited theatrical release on Aug.