A widow grows increasingly paranoid as everyone around her is killed
by a mysterious assailant who may be linked to a religious community. HORROR
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Deadly Blessing (1981)Directed by Wes Craven
Written by Glenn M. Benest, Matthew Barr, Wes Craven Starring Maren Jensen, Sharon Stone, Susan Buckner, Jeff East, Ernest Borgnine, Lisa Hartman, Lois Nettleton, Douglas Barr |
Considering Wes Craven's two prior films were lights-out instant cult classics, you gotta wonder what went wrong with Deadly Blessing. Maybe it was a lack of complete control over the script. Whatever it was, it resulted in one of the blandest, most nonsensical films I've ever watched. There's elements of The Omen, Friday the 13th, The Exorcist, and a bunch of shit I'm sure was also ripped off from better sources all mixed together with a lousy script and a movie with no real point to it. This doesn't feel like the same filmmaker who gave us Freddy Krueger and Papa Jupiter.
Married couple Martha (Jensen) and Jim (Barr) live on a farm right next to an isolated religious community called the Hittites. One day, Jim is killed in an accident, leaving Martha alone and pregnant. Soon, all sorts of people start dying around Martha, including members of the Hittites, which doesn't sit well with the group's leader, the aggressively hyper-Christian Isaiah (Borgnine). By this point, I was bored out of my skull and just tried my hardest to stay awake between kills. The religious creeps call every female outsider an incubus, which is a particularly weird error, considering a female demon would be called a succubus. It's an easy thing to look up. But I digress. While I haven't combed through Craven's entire catalog yet, I feel comfortable in saying Deadly Blessing is his worst film. |