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 God Told Me To (DVD)
Description: Genre: Crime & Thriller - Thriller / Theatrical Release: 1976 / Director: Larry Cohen / Actors: Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah ... more  God Told Me To (DVD) ... Raffin, Sandy Dennis, Sylvia Sidney, Sam Levene ... / DVD released 2003-08-26 at Blue Underground / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, Colour, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, WidescreenNewest Review: ... deeply weird. You might expect from the synopsis some kind of religious cult/mind control film, and that's partly true, but ... more ... it goes way beyond that. This is a film where the plot twists are so odd they almost make it worth watching by themselves.
I'm not sure how I'd describe this in terms of genre. It combines lots of genres (horror, for instance, or conspiracy thriller) without completely committing to any of them. While it works on its own crazy terms, the individual component genres are ill-served. There's little visceral horror, no real suspense, nothing particularly thrilling. I think the central idea is meant to propel the film fo...more |
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God Told Me To (DVD): Glowing hermaphrodite Jesus! (646 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 06.04.08 (Very useful, 84 readings)
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A review of just the film. This is an odd little film from 1977. Larry Cohen, the director, was part of the 70s boom in groundbreaking American horror films. He never quite broke through in the way that John Carpenter or Wes Craven did, perhaps because his films are a bit too unusual for mainstream success. His best known film is probably the mutant baby movie It's Alive; God Told Me To is probably his strangest film. New York is hit by a wave of random murders. A sniper guns people down in the street; a man goes on a knife rampage in a mall; a cop goes crazy and starts firing wildly during a St Patrick's Day Parade. When asked why, the murderers ...
