Wawan Ekajuni

The Deliverance True Story

Netflix’s “The Deliverance,” directed by Lee Daniels, is not entirely based on a true story but is loosely inspired by a local family who lived in a haunted house in Gary, Indiana, for about a year. Latoya Ammons, the real-life counterpart of the film’s Ebony Jackson, moved into the old rental house with her mother, Rosa Campbell, and her three children. To protect their identities, the names of these real-life individuals have been changed in the Netflix film, and the location has been altered to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for creative reasons.