CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

vishnu-dileep08 This movie is about a woman whose husband dies of some mysterious circumstance and as a widow she becomes all paranoid about her neighbors.The plot of this movie was perfect with good characters; good scares from time to time and extremely mysterious and suspenseful. Nothing was dragged in this movie went on with a perfect flow with a great BGM. All the actors did a wonderful job everyone was notable. The ending of this was unpredictable but it could have been made with a better ending story.YES I would recommend people to watch this movie.My Rating 8/10

tomgillespie2002 Like many others of my generation, I first encountered the work of Wes Craven with Scream (1996), which went on to influence a whole new wave of teen slasher movies that everybody thought they had seen die off in the early 90's. Shortly after, I watched A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), and realised just how influential the horror giant was across his lucrative career. Of course, he was making his mark even before this with the notorious The Last House on the Left (1972), a film inspired by Ingmar Bergman that remains shocking even to this day. With Craven's passing just over a year ago, I've been busy rounding up all of those forgotten minor works, and Deadly Blessing, made in between TV movie Stranger in Our House (1978) and Swamp Thing (1982), is one of his oddest.On a remote farm named 'Our Blessing', couple Martha (Maren Jensen) and Jim Schmidt (Douglas Barr) live amongst a rural religious community known as the 'Hiddites'. The Hiddites are similar to the Amish in that they keep to themselves and reject modern technology. Some of the Hiddite youngsters, including the dim-witted William (The Hills Have Eyes' Michael Berryman), are fascinated with the Schmidt's tractor. When Jim, an ex-Hiddite and son of sect leader Isaiah (Ernest Borgnine), is killed in a suspicious incident in the barn, Martha's friends Lana (Sharon Stone) and Vicky (Susan Buckner) join her for company, but more deaths and strange incidents soon occur. Is it the work of the 'Incubus', the demon feared by Isaiah and his followers, or is there a deranged killer on the loose?Deadly Blessing represents Craven's awkward transition from grimy shockers such as Last House and The Hills Have Eyes (1977) to the more mainstream fare he had such great success with following Elm Street. The film's main issue is that there are too many characters, sub- plots and ideas flying around to form a coherent piece. It never seems to settle on a tone, whether it be all-out supernatural, grounded and dramatic, or giallo-esque. However, the messy style of the movie at least makes for a more interesting movie that it would have been if played completely straight. There are a few nice set- pieces, including the infamous spider-in-the-mouth moment, and some fun performances, including an early role for a gorgeous Sharon Stone and an over-the- top Ernest Borgnine, the latter harshly 'winning' a Razzie for his efforts. Certainly a minor work in Craven's repertoire, but recommended to anyone with a weakness for barmy genre movies.

Mr_Ectoplasma "Deadly Blessing" is a film I'd heard a lot about but not had the chance to see until it was finally released on DVD for the first time this past year. One of Wes Craven's earlier endeavors, the film takes place in a rural farming community that is home to the Hittites, a religious sect in the vein of the Amish but much more extreme. In it, Martha (Maren Jensen) lives with her husband, who is an ex-Hittite himself. After he mysteriously dies in a tractor accident, Martha's two female friends (including a young Sharon Stone) come to stay with her, and they are targeted by the strange religious group who comes to believe Martha to be an incubus.A far cry from Craven's grindhouse exercises in brutality, "The Last House on the Left" and "The Hills Have Eyes", "Deadly Blessing" takes a more accessible direction, and the conventional filmmaking techniques at work here illustrate Craven's aim for a more mainstream audience. Trading in the gritty 6mm feel that punctuated the aforementioned films, "Deadly Blessing" is surprisingly glossy, and plays out like a made-for-television horror movie (albeit a tad bit more gratuitous).Conceptually, the film has an interesting premise— after all, who doesn't like a good old fashioned horror flick about religious maniacs inflicting horror on innocent citizens? Predating "Children of the Corn", the film's rural farmland setting lends an ominous atmosphere and adds to the sense of dread that pervades the narrative, albeit in a bit of a wonky manner. The film treads the line between the realms of the supernatural and the slasher rather awkwardly, but the quirkiness this creates almost makes the film charming. It channels the religious ostracism and wonderful weirdness of films like "The Wicker Man", but also follows in line with the slasher tropes of films like "Friday the 13th" and the like.A lot of people have booed the ending of the film, which accords to its supernatural subtext, and I can see both sides of the argument; that said, for the sake of the film's innate quirkiness, I think that it fits just fine. As far as the performances in the film go, well... they're pretty bad, even by '80s horror standards. Maren Jensen gives a decent performance, but the supporting female cast is weak— Sharon Stone is even shoddy in this early supporting role, but she's known for being a bit hit-and-miss. Ernest Borgnine does give a hammy and entertaining life to the role of the religious leader, and Michael Berryman's presence in the film is welcome.Overall, I found "Deadly Blessing" hard to like or dislike with any passion. Its rural farmland setting gives it a thick atmosphere, and the premise of the film is at least interesting. The performances are overall pretty poor, but if you can get past hokey acting (which isn't terribly difficult if you're accustomed to '80s horror), there's fun to be had. If nothing else, "Deadly Blessing" stands as a monument of Craven's transitory period between grindhouse horror and mainstream genre audiences. Not a total waste of time, but not a success either. I rate it slightly above average just for the brilliant snake scene, and Sharon Stone's disgusting eight-legged dream sequence. 6/10.

deadringer22000 Before his shoddy period in the mid 80's to '90's(besides Serpent and the Rainbow)Craven did some very decent work in the late 70's to early '80 and Deadly Blessing is one of them. Filled with beautiful scenery, awesome scary set pieces, and pretty good acting and pacing. The only weak points are the script and a ending that feels like a cop-out.After her husband is killed in a "accident", recently widowed Martha(Marleen Jensen) is visited by her college friends Vicky(Susan Buckner) and Lana(Sharon Stone) in her home surrounded by a ultra-conservative religious cult. They are not too happy that she is staying and not selling her dead, ex-cult member husband's farm left to him by his tyrannical father(Ernest Borgnine) who believes that she and her friends are in line with the devil. Could it be the cult that is trying to scare Martha into selling?While the story, ending, and plot work against him Craven is still in his prime here. His creepy set-pieces are second to none and he is one of the best of doing what I like to call the "jump" scare. Do not watch this one if you have a phobia of snakes or spiders. In the end the movie does scare you and for a horror movie you cannot ask for anything else, just do not try to think about it too hard.