‘Deliver Us From Evil’ Movie Is Based on Book By Policeman-Demonologist

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Michael Wilson

“Deliver Us From Evil,” based on a former policeman’s book, opens July 2.
Credit Earl Wilson for The New York Times

NEW YORK---The worried woman described the bizarre goings-on at her home in the Bronx, which she suspected was haunted, to the police officer standing before her. “Let me explain your problem,” the officer, Ralph Sarchie, replied. “Your home has been invaded by a demonic spirit, which is causing the phenomena you’ve described. Mr. Sarchie wrote a book, “Beware the Night,” with a co-author, Lisa Collier Cool, about encounters like the one above in the Bronx. It was published in 2001 by St. Martin’s Press to little fanfare, and he retired in 2004. But 10 years later, a horror film based on the book, “Deliver Us From Evil,” is set to open July 2, and the countless posters advertising it all over New York announce its source material in bold red letters: “Inspired by the Actual Accounts of an N.Y.P.D. Sergeant.” [link]