Deadly Blessing

R

Released Aug 14, 1981

1 hr. 42 min.

Horror

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38%

8 Reviews

Tomatometer

28%

500+ Ratings

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Friends visit a recent widow (Maren Jensen) who is frightened by the leader (Ernest Borgnine) of a neo-Hittite sect.

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Out in the country a woman's husband mysteriously is killed in their barn. Their property very close to a strict Amish community that the victim was ostracized from. Wes Craven directs this creepy mostly due to Ernest Borgnine's Amish beard horror/mystery. Maren Jensen plays the lead supported by a young Sharon Stone, Jeff East, Lisa Hartman and Michael Berryman. Fun watchable eighties horror from the master of the genre.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

11/20/22

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daniel l

The most of the movie is entertaining and it has good suspense. But the movie fell apart in the last 20 seconds (the ending). I am not sure why they used that ending, it didn't fit the movie at all. Otherwise the movie is actually not bad.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Craven hadn’t quite hit his stride with this preposterous story that’s uneven in style, tone, & pacing and goes absolute bat-sh*t in the third act. The music is full-lactose cheese & Borgnine is a decaf Brother Theodore. #nitrosMovieChallenge

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/04/22

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Damian L

It was okay for a Wes Craven film

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

04/06/23

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Otvio F

Deadly Blessing is headless, questionable script and unfortunately Wes Craven was not really inspired at the time.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

05/06/21

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steve d

One of Craven's weakest but it has some fun moments.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Phil Edwards

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Deadly Blessing is no masterpiece to be sure, but it does make for an entertaining old fashioned horror movie, and amidst the welter of slash and stalk gore, this is welcome indeed.

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Eddie Harrison

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this is lurid stuff, and probably all the better for the fetid, no-holds-barred atmosphere.

Rated: 3/5

Mar 3, 2022

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Charles Webb

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On paper, a slasher-thriller with supernatural overtones, Deadly Blessing is instead a series of loosely connected parts.

Jul 3, 2018

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Andreas Samuelson

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One of Wes Craven's best films, an oddball but often scary thriller mixing elements from religious, slasher, snake, spider and monster flicks

Rated: 4/5

Jul 11, 2005

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Emanuel Levy

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Rated: 2/5

Jul 9, 2005

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Frank Swietek

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Rated: 1/5

Aug 26, 2004

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Synopsis

Friends visit a recent widow (Maren Jensen) who is frightened by the leader (Ernest Borgnine) of a neo-Hittite sect.

Director: Wes Craven
Production Co: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Inter Planetary
Rating: R
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 14, 1981, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 9, 2016

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