Director of Netflix horror reveals his dog died and cast were hospitalised during filming-Emily Bashforth-Entertainment – Metro

The director of The Deliverance has shared spooky stories from set (Picture: Netflix)

The director of Netflix horror The Deliverance has revealed stories of real-life horror happenings from the film’s set.

Starring Glenn Close, the Lee Daniels-directed flick follows a family living in Indiana who become convinced their house is a portal to hell after a series of demonic occurrences.

When the cameras stopped rolling, however, Daniels was gravely concerned that the spooky events would continue, so much so that he organised prayer circles to prevent anything from happening.

In a new interview, the filmmaker told Sirius XM: ‘Things happen, and I was not gonna let things happen on my set, and also I needed it for me.’

The prayer circles weren’t a fail-safe, though.

‘Even with that, there were still things that happened on the set that was – my sister is in every movie that I’ve ever done as my good luck charm, and she was in the scene with Glenn in the chemo scene, and she’s the one that sort of gave her attitude in the chemo scene,’ Daniels explained.

The film stars Caleb McGlaughlin as Nate and Andra Day as Ebony (Picture: Netflix/Aaron Ricketts)

It is based on a true story of a family who believes they were possessed (Picture: Netflix/Aaron Ricketts)

‘And two days later, after being in the chemo scene, she was diagnosed with lung cancer – literally. My dog died on the set.’

But it didn’t end there as, American actress and comedian Mo’Nique, who plays a social worker in the movie, was hospitalised after filming one scene.

She recalled: ‘Mr Daniels had me doing a scene, ok? And we’re outside. It was just, the demon was supposed to be on top of the building, so they kept blowing this… I mean, at one point I’m like, “Lee, do we have [to have] this s**t because I can’t breathe.”

‘So when I got finished, right, my thyroid was a big… I mean, it was just sick. Oh, baby. I was like, “What kind of s**t is this?” It was a lot of things happening with The Deliverance.’

Perhaps everything seems even more spooky once you remember that The Deliverance is based on a true story.

The demonic possession thriller was inspired by an alleged haunting that took place in, you guessed it, Indiana in 2011.

Glenn Close stars in the new film with mixed reviews (Picture: Netflix/Aaron Ricketts)

An investigation into Latoya Ammons and her family’s apparent haunting was published in 2014, with the Indianapolis Star detailing how she and her children – ages seven, nine, and 12 – believed they had been possessed.

Titled The Exorcisms of Latoya Ammons, the article explored the mother’s claims that the brood had been tormented by shadowy figures and swarms of black flies.

Incidents included the nine-year-old walking backwards up a wall in the presence of a family case manager and hospital nurse.

While there was initially speculation that the family had conjured up the unbelievable story as a way to make money, a police officer stated that he ‘was a believer’ after making several visits to their home and interviewing witnesses.

Captain Charles Austin of Gary police went on to describe it as the strangest story he had ever heard.

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