The Church

Originaltitel: La chiesa

1989
R
1 Std. 42 Min.

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Eine gotische Kathedrale, die über einem Massengrab erbaut wurde, entwickelt seltsame Kräfte, die eine Reihe von Menschen im Inneren gefangen halten. Die Geister eines Massakers aus dem 12.Eine gotische Kathedrale, die über einem Massengrab erbaut wurde, entwickelt seltsame Kräfte, die eine Reihe von Menschen im Inneren gefangen halten. Die Geister eines Massakers aus dem 12.Eine gotische Kathedrale, die über einem Massengrab erbaut wurde, entwickelt seltsame Kräfte, die eine Reihe von Menschen im Inneren gefangen halten. Die Geister eines Massakers aus dem 12.

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6,2/10

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The Church aka La Chiesa

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Originally, Soavi and Argento wanted to shoot the movie in the Lorenzkirche of Nuremberg (Germany), and even did some test shots there. However, it was abandoned because the town of Nuremberg didn't want a horror movie to be shot there.

Patzer
At the end of the movie, when Gus grabs the thing from architect's mouth, he is holding it and looks away and a different shot of him is shown, but he is not holding the thing. In the next shot, he is holding it again.

Zitate
Hermann, the Sacristan: [to Lottie] Filthy liar! Here we'll wash your mouth out with soap, here!
Lottie's Mother: Don't make me wait for those onions Hermann

Alternative Versionen
All videos for The Church in the USA come in two formats: R Rated or Unrated/Uncut. There are mistakes on all boxes and tapes about the running times: All videotapes and boxes say 110 minute running time on the back cover and 102 minute running time on the cassette no matter if its the rated R version or the 110 minute unrated version. It will correctly state on the box & tape that it is rated or uncut/unrated.

Verbindungen
Featured in Dario Argento: Master of Horror (1991)

Soundtracks
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Written by Philip Glass
Performed by Martin Goldray

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Ausgewählte Rezension

6/10

Impressive Gothic horror

Taking many aspects from other films the church builds a solid film with a decent plot and cinematography and it didn't disappoint overall. However, whilst the plot is good on paper halfway through it loses tension and steam and I found the ending to be a bit of a let-down, although not awful.

Acting wise I'm sure it was good but I watched the dubbed version in English, and the dubbing was quite frankly terrible. I think the girl (Lottie) was dubbed by an older woman which was a bit weird I found.

Scares wise I found it impressive, it included great practical effects and lots of hammy gore. Surprisingly it was meant to be a completely serious film but I still feel like a lot of it is played off as tongue in cheek.

6/10: Good overall and definitely worth a watch for horror fans but there are a lot of issues that I feel drag it down such as the loss of tension in the second half and poor dub work