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Nachdem ihr Mann unter mysteriösen Umständen stirbt, wird eine Witwe immer paranoider gegenüber der benachbarten Religionsgemeinschaft, die teuflische Pläne mit ihr haben könnte.Nachdem ihr Mann unter mysteriösen Umständen stirbt, wird eine Witwe immer paranoider gegenüber der benachbarten Religionsgemeinschaft, die teuflische Pläne mit ihr haben könnte.Nachdem ihr Mann unter mysteriösen Umständen stirbt, wird eine Witwe immer paranoider gegenüber der benachbarten Religionsgemeinschaft, die teuflische Pläne mit ihr haben könnte.
- Auszeichnungen
- 3 Nominierungen insgesamt
Colleen Riley
- Melissa
- (as Coleen Riley)
Douglas Barr
- Jim Schmidt
- (as Doug Barr)
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I have a soft spot for this movie since I saw it years ago. The plot goes haywire in all kinds of directions and nothing much actually happens (it is a little too slow-moving for it's own good). But it is imaginatively directed I think, with nice touches (the bath, the dream with the spider, the barnsequence) and an overall creepy atmosphere. Of course, the acting has it's weak spots with some overacting and some none-acting, but the women are all gorgeus and Maren Jensens husband isn't a badlooking fella' himself but he doesn't get much screentime. The ending, as so many have pointed out, is just a little bit silly/weak and I suspect that there was an alternative one (it seems so much like a tacked-on scene). But I don't understand that so many people really dislike this film. It's not the best from Mr Craven (he has done far worse. "Deadly Friend", "Swamp thing" and "The Hills have eyes 2" are truly embarassing). If it shows up as a late-night movie, give it a try!
A nifty little thriller that involves three best friends consoling each other after the murder of one of their husbands. Out in the middle of rural USA the ladies are threatened by the local religious sect (the Hitites) for which the husband was once a part of. It seems one of the Hitites incubi is on the loose killing the yokels and not even the sheriff can stop it. A good cast of recognizable faces (Sharon Stone, Ernest Borgnine, Michael Berryman, etc) and an above average (but not very original) script into a sometimes thrilling film. Did anyone notice that the bathtub scene looks very familiar (think NOES). Suspiria10 says B-
A group of Hittites have been terrorizing their non-Hittite neighbours in an attempt to run them off their land, so that they can seize it for themselves.
The Hittites are an extreme religious sect that, "make the Amish look like swingers".
They shun anyone who does not follow their hardline path, calling them serpents, while claiming that all non-Hittite women are incubus.
When one of their own leaves the group to pursue an education in the city, and returns with a beautiful wife to claim his inheritance, and farm the land with modern methods...it is no coincidence that he winds up murdered.
However, the death doesn't stop there.
One of the Hittite boys with developmental disabilities also winds up dead, when he is caught peeping on the women next door.
It seems that something more supernatural may be afoot when doors start being slammed by unseen forces, and the women are tormented by snakes and spiders.
The question now, is, whether a murderer might be running rampant, or if some sort of Hittite golem been unleashed?
Perhaps the answer isn't so simple.
Things are left ambiguous enough to keep you guessing...as people continue to die.
And the culprits may just be the ones you least expect.
The truth is revealed in an obvious case of foreshadowing, but they leave enough room for reasonable doubt to keep you questioning things.
While an unexpected twist is spun in at the end to throw you for a loop.
All in all, it's an entertaining little horror mystery with a lot of twists and turns.
And the women are all total babes.
6.5 out of 10.
The Hittites are an extreme religious sect that, "make the Amish look like swingers".
They shun anyone who does not follow their hardline path, calling them serpents, while claiming that all non-Hittite women are incubus.
When one of their own leaves the group to pursue an education in the city, and returns with a beautiful wife to claim his inheritance, and farm the land with modern methods...it is no coincidence that he winds up murdered.
However, the death doesn't stop there.
One of the Hittite boys with developmental disabilities also winds up dead, when he is caught peeping on the women next door.
It seems that something more supernatural may be afoot when doors start being slammed by unseen forces, and the women are tormented by snakes and spiders.
The question now, is, whether a murderer might be running rampant, or if some sort of Hittite golem been unleashed?
Perhaps the answer isn't so simple.
Things are left ambiguous enough to keep you guessing...as people continue to die.
And the culprits may just be the ones you least expect.
The truth is revealed in an obvious case of foreshadowing, but they leave enough room for reasonable doubt to keep you questioning things.
While an unexpected twist is spun in at the end to throw you for a loop.
All in all, it's an entertaining little horror mystery with a lot of twists and turns.
And the women are all total babes.
6.5 out of 10.
A solid shocker, ruined by a botched story and a ridicolous finale, but already demonstrating the greatness of his director, Wes Craven. A couple of scenes in the movie (like the dream spider sequence with a young and pretty Sharon Stone, and the almost heartstopping snake in the bath scene) are really good and even the movie is good for more than half is length. Alas, the botched explanation of the resolution of the story (really stupid and very similar to another movie of those years - Sleepaway Camp) and the really ridicolous demon apparition at the end of the movie soften the total impact of this otherwise more than watchable thriller with mildly supernatural tones.
Like great wines, Craven's Deadly Blessing improves with age. When looking over the spectrum of his cinema one can see how this films fits into that particular period in his career when he struggled to finance A Nightmare on Elm Street. Unfortunately that classic would not appear until after Swamp Thing and Hills Have Eyes 2. But here we have a story closer than usual to Wes Cravens's heart, repression, religious conflict and social devision, therefore it comes as quite a surprise that Craven does not regard this as one of his more accomplished efforts.
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- WissenswertesWes Craven compared his work with actor Ernest Borgnine to John Carpenter's work with Donald Pleasance in the original Halloween - Die Nacht des Grauens (1978). He states that Borgnine was the first "big name actor" he had worked with and was at first intimidated by the actor.
- PatzerThe cult members only accuse female characters of being the Incubus. In folklore, however, an Incubus is an exclusively male demon, the counterpart to the exclusively female Succubus. **The "incubus" in this case actually was a man, who was living as a woman, so this isn't entirely a goof.**
- Zitate
[in reference to Martha's land]
Vicky Anderson: If I owned a piece of property like this and I kicked the bucket, my parents would start building condos on it on the way home from the funeral!
- Crazy CreditsThe end credits start rolling before the narrator's dialogue is finshed.
- Alternative VersionenIn the British version, to avoid what they might call confusion, they omitted the "finale" in which the incubus ascends from hell. This version runs 98 minutes.
- VerbindungenFeatured in Große Regisseure: The Films of Wes Craven (1999)
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- Deadly Blessing
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- Bardwell, Texas, USA(Town Store)
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- Budget
- 2.500.000 $ (geschätzt)
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 8.279.042 $
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 8.279.042 $
- Laufzeit1 Stunde 40 Minuten
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