The cast of The Deliverance says that audiences can see how generational trauma can be its own type of demonic force. The cast and director Lee Daniels talked with Blavity/Shadow and Act Managing Editor Trey Mangum about the deeper spiritual and familial themes in the horror film . Glenn Close, who plays Alberta, said how her character has given her life to God in order to heal herself from her past abusive tendencies. Before she was saved, she passed the abuse she experienced to her daughter, Ebony (Day). “I think Alberta was a woman who had always known abuse. She knows the cycles of abuse,” said Close, adding now that Alberta has changed her life, she wants Ebony to do the same. But, she said, “you can’t force somebody to do that.” Close also added that despite the abuse both women have suffered, they were able to survive because of “the community of strong women” around them. “I think what I love about the movie is that it not only talks about a family, and a very real family,...