His fourth film, the horror film Sinister (2012), received accolades as something extremely scary in a number of quarters and yet I remained indifferent to his well-worn and not terribly well connected bag of tricks, while he did far better than expected with the adaptation of Marvel Comics’ Doctor Strange (2016), followed by the horror film The Black Phone (2021).ĭeliver Us From Evil – not to be confused with the fine Danish thriller Deliver Us From Evil (2009) – does little to impress. I expected little of his next film, the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), and yet he managed to find things inside the material that impressed. Emily Rose also laid bare Derrickson’s personal beliefs as an evangelical Christian.
His first film as director Hellraiser: Inferno (2000) was one of the better sequels in the series and yet his first studio film, The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), was a cliche ridden possession and exorcism film that made extremely bogus claims to be based on truth.
I often dislike his films and yet every so often his oeuvre holds a surprise or two.
He is a director that is frustratingly unable to swing my own opinion one way or the other.
His name turns up on the various IMDB Worst Director lists and his films individually receive responses that are all over the map. Scott Derrickson is a director that seems to polarise people.
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