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Deliverance

DramaAdventureThriller

Directed by John Boorman

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country. From TMDB

167 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works

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Deliverance is a 1972 drama adventure thriller film, directed by John Boorman, starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds and Ned Beatty.

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  • Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 6, 2026

    Ned Beatty was BOTD in 1937 & died in 2021 at 83. In 1972, he made his film debut as Bobby Trippe in John Boorman's "Deliverance". His character is forced to strip at gunpoint by two mountain men who humiliate and rape him, a scene so shocking that it is became a screen milestone

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  • Legal Weed 4 SC 🌱 @legalweed4sc.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 20, 2026

    Trey Gowdy can't possibly run for Senate. He's under contract to film Deliverance II.

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  • The Mutant Fam @themutantfam.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2026

    Seriously, though, some day I'd love to host a double-bill of this and DELIVERANCE (which is a remarkable film, make no mistake) and then watch how audiences respond - and which one newcomers would be more offended by 🤦‍♀️. Not that the results would be surprising. 😐😔 #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam -SMF

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  • Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.comBluesky · Sep 29, 2026

    Regarding Iñárritu, I love The Revenant, which I'd put right up alongside any similar Ordeal movie you'd care to name—Sorcerer, Deliverance, Ravenous, Aguirre, that Pluribus episode in the jungle etc. Haven't seen or heard a thing about any of his other movies that makes me want to see them at all!

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  • Josie J @vtomo.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2026

    Deep into horror territory with my #lastfourwatched on this #letterboxdfriday 🩸My nom for sickest low budget horror movie ever 😎Give the gift of experiencing unfiltered reality 🚐National Lampoon's European Deliverance 🌑whoever wins, we can't see them

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  • geotone.bsky.social @geotone.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2026

    #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #EastCoastKin #WestCoastKin #Film Deliverance - 1972 Wakulla Springs Crawfordville, Fla.

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  • BetsysMom f/k/a “Vicky (Betsy’s Mom)” on X @betsysmom.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 25, 2026

    In this picture he looks like the guy in the movie “Deliverance” sitting on the porch playing the banjo.

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  • RPG Site @rpgsite.netBluesky · Sep 30, 2026

    The complete Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Live in Kuttenberg concert movie has been released on YouTube by Warhorse Studios alongside a special stream featuring composer Jan Valta: www.rpgsite.net/news/21493-k...

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  • MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 30, 2026

    7/30/72: John Boorman's Deliverance [DP Vilmos Zsigmond] w/Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ned Beatty More: @aadowd.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2022/ju... @kphipps3000.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/deliverance-... @kimmorgan.bsky.social: thenewbev.com/blog/2019/02...

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  • chiller @chiller.eurosky.socialBluesky · Oct 22, 2026

    There's a really interesting mini discussion at the end of the latest @youaregood.bsky.social podcast (the one on the movie "Deliverance") about the benefits of punching terrible people. I think we all know my position.

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  • Thornus Animator @thornus.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 16, 2026

    Suddenly the FBI is turning into the movie Deliverance.

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  • Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2026

    A bunch of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 actors are teaming up to make a found-footage horror movie. www.thebiglead.com/kcd-2s-hans-...

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  • Echo Dot @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 5, 2026

    So do I, at least for a couple of months, then everyone will buy indie games instead. Actually if we could wait about a year until I'm finished that'd be great. Seriously comments like this are so stupid because even if GTA is about 100 dollars (anyway they'll be looking to make most of their money on GTA online 2) it wouldn't "blaze the path™" for anyone, it's had about 10 years in development and approximately 12,000 people have worked on it. Have you read some of the job titles of people…

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  • Rhynoplaz @[email protected]Lemmy · Aug 15, 2026

    I just finished Kingdom come Deliverance, and I plan on starting the sequel tomorrow. I really connected with my Henry.

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  • Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2025

    I’m watching The Deliverance and while it’s not a funny movie, it is VERY funny that in the film, Lucifer was cast out of heaven and ended up in Pittsburgh. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Del...

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  • All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.comBluesky · Jul 30, 2025

    To finish on Deliverance, here’s the chilling final image from film. 31/31

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  • Becky Hawkins @postcardsbybecky.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 28, 2026

    Did anyone else watch Deliverance at a young age because their mom wanted to make sure they understood all the Tiny Toons movie references? 😂

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  • TheLightItBurns @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 29, 2026

    The order would probably change each time I need to think of this: * Stalker GAMMA * System Shock 2 * Prey (2016) * Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2 (2009) * Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Other ones up there: * Final Fantasy X * Kingdom Come: Deliverance II * Balatro * Resident Evil 2 (1998) * The shareware version of Commander Keen on my grandfather's PC when I was a child

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  • Mike McGranaghan @aisleseat.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 16, 2026

    Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe ignite the screen in THE WEIGHT, a movie that alternately reminded me of William Friedkin's SORCERER and John Boorman's DELIVERANCE. It's in theaters this week. Here's my review: aisleseat.com/the-weight.h... #filmsky

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  • AJ the Not Great 🔞 @ajthenotgreat.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 15, 2026

    TW: Rant I wish I could watch Con in Mother Molly's Clap house, but I can't get past the pig thing. I'm from an area where the film Deliverance is set and even though I refuse to see the film, I know what happens in a certain scene from word of mouth and jokes about hillbillies or Mountain Men.

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  • Cathode Ray Vaughn @schneidremarks.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 26, 2026

    THE WEIGHT is a movie designed to make me specifically hoot and holler. All-time performance by Ethan Hawke. Shades of Sorcerer, Deliverance, 3:10 to Yuma, and even Predator. Insane this isn't playing in more theaters or getting more marketing, I should not have had to drive to Jersey for this.

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  • Gordon Forbes🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺🦞 @gordong.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 21, 2026

    Away from the tourist coast, is a vast northeast wilderness, where you could still film a sequel to Deliverance. Also known as ME02.

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  • Beach Boys are the GOAT @beachboysgoat.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 6, 2026

    I read where they wanted to film Deliverance in Florida but the governor didn't allow it. So they went to northern Georgia which led Burt and Jimmy Carter to help co-found the Georgia Film Commission setting up a lot of future filming in Georgia.

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  • Chris Weston @westonfront.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 12, 2026

    There's a good Jack Lowden film on Netflix called "Calibre". It's like a Scottish "Deliverance".

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  • Andie Redwine @andieredwine.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2025

    Now we’ve moved to the set of Deliverance - this film has it all!! #TheLandThatTimeForgot #tcmparty

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  • Ti like “T” | Book Chatter @tibookchatter.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 3, 2026

    Delicatessen is a keeper. Deliverance can go. I hate so much of that movie.

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  • Wilson @wilsonjettone.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 1, 2026

    Boorman is a genius. You'd have to be to make a film this bad. He has some stone-wall classics: Point Blank, Excalibur, Hope and Glory, some solid films: Deliverance, The Emerald Forest and some absolute dross: Exorcist II. Zardoz fits in the dross end of the spectrum, but it is never boring.

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  • Wgoodf-MM0INH @wgoodf.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 24, 2026

    Think, The Hills Have Eyes / Deliverance, but with a French volleyball team in Tenerife. Ignore the reviews! Quality terrible film👍

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  • jgpmc01.bsky.social @jgpmc01.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 21, 2026

    Wow! A man(?) talking about a man's physique at a political rally sounds a little "queer" to me. Does that mean his first initial "D" actually stands for "Deliverance" as in the movie or maybe "Devious"? Either probably fits this "guy's" personna as it's obvious his "gate" swings both ways. 🤭 🤪

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  • Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.comBluesky · Oct 16, 2026

    Hmm. Maybe. I know that DELIVERANCE is a brilliant film and this edition is going to look and sound gorgeous, but the last time I saw it, it authentically made me feel bad. We'll see.

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  • photonhntr.bsky.social @photonhntr.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 11, 2026

    I think I saw him playing the banjo on the movie Deliverance

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  • millerfilm @millerfilm.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 10, 2026

    "Excalibur" is a GREAT film! Meaning that Boorman got three great films made in his career, adding to "Deliverance" and "Point Blank." Three great films in a career is an excellent achievement. #BoormanAndTheDevil #TCMParty #FilmsOnFilm

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  • Charles Bryan, Part-Time Cat Bed @charleshbryan.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 12, 2026

    Things I was frightened of when I was a child: Bees/Wasps/Hornets The movie Deliverance (It was on broadcast TV somehow, edited, but still effing creepy. I'd never watch it again. Poor Ned Beatty.)

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  • mikedugdale.bsky.social @mikedugdale.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 28, 2026

    Brings that film, Deliverance, to mind. I bet this cunt can't even play banjo though.

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  • All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.comBluesky · Jul 30, 2025

    Deliverance was nominated for Best Film and Best Director at the Oscars but didn’t win, and Burt Reynolds blamed himself for that. He did a nude photoshoot for Cosmopolitan magazine and claims that the Academy didn’t take too kindly to it. 30/31

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  • All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.comBluesky · Jul 30, 2025

    Here’s a passage from a letter that James Dickey sent to the editor of his Deliverance novel in June 1971: “I am deathly afraid that somebody will get hurt on this film, because there is no doubt that it is the most dangerous one ever made.” 25/31

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  • Bruise Blood @bruiseblood.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 21, 2024

    They just don't make film posters like they used to. Deliverance (1972)

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  • Mario Bava's A Jay of Blood @jaycoyle.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 27, 2026

    The Weight: Wages of Fear by way of Deliverance and whilst there is nothing startling or particularly original here to trouble those, this is a finely made film, well shot with a nice heft to it. The cast is good, with Hawke, as ever, tremendous. Like most films he is in, it needed more Crowe.

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  • hyper mega bummer boy @danceyrselfdean.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 17, 2026

    they should have put Zardoz the greatest movie of all time in the Criterion Collection instead of mid ass Deliverance

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  • Disc-Connected: Your trusted news source in physical media @disc-connected.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2026

    After the success of Point Blank and Deliverance, Warner Brothers offered John Boorman the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to direct a sequel to their smash hit, The Exorcist. The result was one of the biggest disasters in movie history, a critical and financial failure that not only changed

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  • 🌸 '𝕃𝕖 𝕊𝕥𝕖𝕧𝕖!' 🌸 @up-za-daisy.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 11, 2026

    There's people who'd vote for him if they'd caught him fucking one of their children. That, in a nutshell, is how utterly fucked up a sizeable amount of the US population really is.... My the movie Deliverance wasn't as far fetched as we thought....

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  • Liberal Buddhist @liberalbuddhist.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 11, 2026

    #MovieChallenge #HorrorChallenge #FilmSky #MovieSky #horror #HorrorMovies October 2026 Horror Movie Challenge Day 11 - A home invasion/survival horror film Went with survival… Deliverance (1972)

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  • Vote Doug Jones 4 AL @petczar.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2026

    The people behind him remind me of the movie “Deliverance.” And I’m not even kidding.

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  • Horatio Flamethrower🪷🇺🇸🇳🇬🇮🇪 @blindmellojelly.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 18, 2026

    Oh, the movie "Deliverance"? "You got a purty mouth", rural?

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  • philiphalpenny75.bsky.social @philiphalpenny75.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 8, 2026

    * Deliverance parody, I meant...that film still gives me chills. It also gave us on of the great '70s film posters courtesy of the great Bill Gold...

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  • Movie Vigilante 📼 🇨🇦 @handle.invalidBluesky · Aug 18, 2026

    I think a great side-scrolling video game based on a movie, would have been Deliverance.

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  • René Walter @rawx.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2026

    Favorite film for each year of the '70s: 70 - Colossus: The Forbin Project 71 - Straw Dogs 72 - Deliverance 73 - Westworld 74 - Phase IV 75 - Dog Day Afternoon 76 - Carrie 77 - Black Sunday 78 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers 79 - Mad Max

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  • Frank's Media and Reviews @franksmedia.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 2, 2026

    Finally added to my @synapsefilms.bsky.social and Redshirt Pictures collection is Hunter's Blood 4k Limited Edition! I've been wanting to get this film for a while! I've heard the film is similar to Deliverance, but more graphic. SIGN ME UP! 🤣 #physicalmedia #horror

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  • Jaquazia Wilson @jwilson051998.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2026

    Happy 89th Birthday To Ned Beatty In Heaven Ned Thomas Beatty (July 6, 1937 – June 13, 2021) He Was One Of The Top Character Actors In Film, Particularly During The 1970s, And Appeared In More Than 160 Films, Including Deliverance (1972), All The President's Men (1976), Network (1976), Superman

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  • Silence Seven @silenceseven.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 20, 2026

    📽️Deliverance (1972)📽️ 🛶🚣‍♂️🛶🚣‍♂️🛶🚣‍♂️🛶🚣‍♂️🛶🚣‍♂️ Tonight's film. I've seen it so many times that tonight it's just going to be ambiance and an occasional glance at the TV while I do some writing. Based on: Deliverance by James Dickey Jon Voight Burt Reynolds Ned Beatty Ronny Cox #FilmSky #Movies #PhysicalMedia

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  • Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 17, 2026

    Yes! I think we talked a little about this before. Definitely a horror movie and I think the resistance goes back to the prestige aspect, of Deliverance being a "good" movie or a more legitimate film in the eyes of anti-horror snobs.

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  • Preston Thomas @preston.cameraBluesky · Jun 13, 2026

    Buddy Ebsen's "Jed Clampett" was wise, warm-hearted, full of empathy, had a great sense of humor and a family that loved him. Donald Trump on the other hand, is just a dressed up version of that inbred shit-kicker from the film, "Deliverance."

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  • coopahcetic @coopercodes.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 1, 2026

    Film 90: Wrong Turn 2003 This film absolutely terrified the shit out of a 20ish year old cooper sitting alone in a dark cinema. Deliverance walked so Wrong Turn could run #FilmSky

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  • Kevin Prinoski 🇨🇦 @kevinprinoski.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 31, 2026

    Vance: "I wanna hear that couch squeal like a pig." For anyone who doesn't understand that reference, please stream the movie "Deliverance" (1972).

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  • JBC @johnbcaddell.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2026

    a proper resting place I think. I would love to have my ashes spread by the Chattooga River which is the boundary between Georgia and South Carolina. the movie Deliverance was filmed on it. my 1st Class 5 river I paddled down in a canoe.

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  • Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2026

    "squeal like a pig" 1972 film Deliverance.

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  • Jules. 🌈+ 🐕 @julesclarke.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 28, 2026

    i first heard duelling banjos in Deliverance film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFut...

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  • Joe @caballojoe.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 23, 2026

    It's disappointing. The characters from the movie "Deliverance" were scary dudes. I was rooting for normal people not to get raped and killed and I would have assumed everybody in the theater shared those sentiments. But based on voting, many Americans identified with the toothless rapists instead.

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  • IDMTINP @idmtinp.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 21, 2026

    Hey, separate the reality from fiction, right? Since we are all such horror fans, why don't we also add the "Squeal Piggy" character from Deliverance? Such a classic film and meme! I'm sure the kids will love it!

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  • Mila @rabies.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 19, 2026

    #31daysofhorror 18. The Deliverance Man. The first 2/3 of this movie was pretty good. The acting, the story, I thought I was going to be giving a rave review here, and then it all shit the bed really hard. The last 3rd didn't even feel like it was the same film.

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