Communion sanglante

Titre original : Communion

1976
R
1h 47min

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6,4/10

14 k

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En 1961, la vie d'un couple catholique divorcé est bouleversée lorsque l'une de leurs deux filles adolescentes est soupçonnée du meurtre brutal de sa sœur cadette lors de sa première communi... Tout lireEn 1961, la vie d'un couple catholique divorcé est bouleversée lorsque l'une de leurs deux filles adolescentes est soupçonnée du meurtre brutal de sa sœur cadette lors de sa première communion et d'une série de coups de couteau ultérieurs.En 1961, la vie d'un couple catholique divorcé est bouleversée lorsque l'une de leurs deux filles adolescentes est soupçonnée du meurtre brutal de sa sœur cadette lors de sa première communion et d'une série de coups de couteau ultérieurs.

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NOTE IMDb

6,4/10

14 k

MA NOTE

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Récompenses
- 1 victoire et 3 nominations au total

Anecdotes
Star Paula E. Sheppard, who played 12-year-old Alice, was about 19 years of age during the making of the movie.

Gaffes
After Alphonso is stabbed he falls down on a coffee table causing it to collapse. A pair of hands is visible as they catch a falling fish bowl.

Citations
Aunt Annie DeLorenze: Angela, stop eating! Haven't you had enough? Jim, help me clean up this mess. You don't need that drink!

Crédits fous
During the ending credits there is no music and the screen doesn't turn black, the last frame of the film remains in the background forever.

Versions alternatives
"Communion" was re-released (after Brooke Shields became famous in "Pretty Baby") in its original uncut form as "Alice, Sweet Alice" in 1978 and then in a cut form as "Holy Terror" in 1981 (after the Brooke Shields' hit "The Blue Lagoon").

Connexions
Featured in Sneak Previews: Hardly Working/The Howling/'Breaker' Morant/Mon Oncle D'Amerique/Caveman (1981)

Bandes originales
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
Written by Jerome Kern (as Kern) and Oscar Hammerstein II (as Hammerstein)
Performed by Helen Morgan (uncredited)

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Commentaire à la une

6/10

I don't play with dolls anymore

Suspicion falls on the sister of a girl killed during her first holy communion ...

Much to enjoy in this movie. It has the lurid brutality that the '70s specialised in, with a worrying line in sexual inappropriateness, and makes no bones about its bleak outlook.

The cinematography is intriguing, with my favourite composition a big knife in the kitchen foreground as a line of three females draws the eye into the frame. Plenty of little touches of the cruel or grotesque, including a kitten lapping the fresh blood of a peculiar murder victim. And also that period habit of intriguing snap-shots of by-standers: the mental hospital orderly's watchful face, and the cousin's dumbfounded look at the final communion service.

The performances are good, with many scenes of raised voices that jangle the nerves. But the over-ripe music gives the impression of numerous string instruments being furiously sawed-in-half.

The real problem is the preposterous plot, which even on its own terms falls between the stools of police procedural and psychological portrait. For me, Alice's story was the main event, and I found my interest drifting as the plot jumped the track to become a sort of blood-drenched Scooby Doo mystery. In the end, I don't class this as a horror, but as psychological thriller - and a cheap one at that.

Overall: Harrowing disturbance descends into daft commotion.