Deadly Blessing

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Deadly Blessing

R

Released Aug 14, 1981

1h 42m

Horror

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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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Sharai Bohannon

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A questionable Wes Craven film is still more fun than many filmmakers at their best. This chaotic movie is unforgettable due to some big swings that (for the most part) work.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 15, 2025

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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.

Jul 28, 2022

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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

MTV

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

Slasherpool

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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thiago s

Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, o filme teve cenas fracas de slasher que ao longo do filme mostra coisas sobrenaturais que não combina muito com o filme, a história é fraca, os personagens são fracos, e o elenco não ajuda em quase nada.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/05/25

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KEVIN C

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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Audience Member

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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Synopsis

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

Director: Wes Craven
Producer: Micheline H. Keller, Max A. Keller, Patricia Herskovic
Screenwriter: Glenn M. Benest, Matthew Barr, 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
Runtime: 1h 42m

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