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The Lee Daniels-directed, Glenn Close and Andra Day-starring Netflix movie “The Deliverance” is getting a lot of attention for that scene (more on this later), but there’s also something else to take note of about the film: much like many a demonic possession movie that’s come before it, this one is “inspired by true events.” But what are those true events? And how much is “The Deliverance” a true story?

The movie is an imagining of what Latoya Ammons, her three kids, and her mother Rosa Campbell said they experienced at their home in Indiana in 2011, as detailed in a 2014 piece published by the Indianapolis Star.

Ammons and her children all claimed they were possessed by demons, and were so convincing that the late Gary police Capt. Charles Austin eventually conceded that after many home visits and interviews, “I am a believer.”

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Warning! This post contains spoilers for The Deliverance.

In its opening moments itself, The Deliverance establishes that it is based on a true story. This makes it hard not to wonder what happened to the real family that experienced the events of the film and how they dealt with the central hauntings. It also raises several questions about whether the movie closely follows the real-life events it was inspired by or takes creative liberties to overly dramatize what happened. Given how the horrors the central Jackson family experiences in The Deliverance are terrifying, it is worth exploring how the film balances fact and fiction.

Directed by Lee Daniels, the Netflix horror movie stars Andra Day, Glenn Close, Caleb McLaughlin, Anthony B. Jenkins, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor as its primary characters. While the film has not performed too well among critics, its "based on a true story" motif makes its demonic possessions...

Glenn Close’s character Alberta single-handedly saved Netflix’s The Deliverance from being a total bore. And even though she wasn’t given much screen time, one can understand the impact of her presence due to the fact that the entire film fell flat as soon as [spoiler alert] Alberta died. I know many of you reading the article might be wondering who actually killed her and if her real-life counterpart Rosa Campbell met a similar fate. Well, not really. But Rosa, too, was attacked by her grandkid, Andrew, a few times, when he was 7 years old. The Ammons family believed that their three kids had been possessed by some kind of demon residing in their haunted house. Thankfully, the family was finally saved after multiple exorcisms performed by a local priest in Gary named Father Michael Maginot, who loosely inspired the character of Apostle Bernice James in the Netflix film. And yes,...

Netflix’s The Deliverance, directed by Lee Daniels, is not entirely based on a true story but is loosely based on a local family that lived in a haunted house located in Gary, Indiana, for approximately a year. Latoya Ammons, the real-life counterpart of Ebony Jackson, had moved into the old rental house with her mother, Rosa Campbell (Glenn Close’s character), and her three kids. The names of all these real-life people have been changed in the Netflix film to protect their identity. And not just the names of the people; even the location of the film has been changed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for creative reasons.

Coming back to the true story, the Ammons family moved into the “Demon House” in November 2011, soon after which they started hearing strange footsteps on the basement stairs and even saw shadowy figures in their living room. As per the reports, the house...