Don't Deliver Us from Evil

1971 "A film that goes where no other has dared."
6.7| 1h42m| en
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Anne and Lore, neighbors and best friends, barely into their teens, board at a convent school where they have taken a vow to sin and to serve Satan. Anne keeps a secret diary, they read a salacious novel, they get a classmate in trouble, they spy on the nuns, they set aside their communion wafers; they make a pact of devotion.

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Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.
Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
changedname If you're like me and you like beauties and beautiful shots in movies like this, then you're in for a treat.I've tended to become slightly wary of these movies, since sometimes they turn out to be kind of boring - for example much of Jess Franco's stuff. I also thought this was really strange that they would have young girls doing this and wondered what the heck it would be like. I was surprised at the level of sexuality the girls displayed at times, but for me it was a better movie for it. I think females would like this movie as well, unlike a lot of horror movies which is a genre this scarcely fits into.It's also highly original and unique, I guess the reason it wasn't followed up by others was because it would be hard to match it. The images of it will probably stay with you for a while. I really love some of the up-close shots they gave of the girls. I think the girls complement each other really well: one is dark, the other is blonde. One is calling the shots more - as tends to happen in friendships/relationships.There isn't a heavy plot line to it, just various things the girls go around doing. Sometimes, it can get a little boring, but the powerful musical score helps it through those parts really well. It's a good movie to watch if you have something else on your mind or are a bit tired, as it won't tax you with a mind-bending plot.
FacemeltingFilms Sometimes a movie comes by and smacks you in face so hard you're view of film and your reasons for loving film change completely. Don't Deliver Us From Evil made me feel how I felt when I first watched Clockwork Orange or The Shinning. So much power and beauty delivered in the most perfect way it stops your heart.DDUFE is not beautiful in the traditional way Kubric films or Wes Anderson films are beautiful. It is not a beauty based on a sill photo but based on the moving picture. The vision of bodies moving through space. Really what movies should be about. This is extremely hard to achieve in my opinion as I have only seen a few movies that truly accomplish it. To me DDUFE is the ultimate perfection of this. Warning though this is truly "only a movie for the open minded!" Two best friends in catholic school, Lore and Anne, have dedicated their lives to Satan. They spend the summer reading dirty books, killing small animals, seducing the gardener and setting fires. They marry under the name of Satan and steal church artifacts for Satanic rituals. This escalates further and further to an ending that will leave your jaw on the floor.It's a very simple concept that is executed with an artists hand and a beautiful classical score that will make you want to kill kittens.This movie is dedicated to the depraved. It promotes violence, sex, and Satan in an extremely compelling way. It is the ultimate peer pressure for little girls to behave badly. The movie itself is so dark and morbid and beautiful it feels as if it was sent from hell.To truly enjoy this movie you must love depravity. To truly enjoy this movie you must cherish violence and savor death. To love this movie you have to be ready to witness the ultimate love between two girls and Satan.
HumanoidOfFlesh "Don't Deliver Us From Evil" tells the simple story of two teenage convent girls who dedicate ourselves to Satan.Gorgeous raven-haired Anne and her best friend Lore are fascinated by evil.After renouncing Jesus Christ they start to seduce men,kill the groundskeeper's bird and perform various acts of blasphemy.The film is pretty controversial as the both actresses look very young.It's disturbing to watch a child-like girl getting her clothes torn off.There's a lot of sacrilegious imagery and it seems that the director clearly hates Catholic Church,but the violence is kept to minimum.The sleaze is quite plentiful,though.The film is inspired by the original 'Heavenly Creatures' Pauline Parker and Juliet Hammond, the two girls whose close friendship resulted in murder.It studies the themes of female friendship and teenagers alienation and questions faith and rules.I applaud it for that.9 out of 10.
fertilecelluloid Dark, beautiful, erotic. Three words that barely sum up the true nature of this extraordinary tale of two young girls (Jeanne Goupil and Catherine Wagener) whose attraction to "evil" becomes a smoldering obsession. Director Joel Seria has crafted a deliberately paced exploitation masterpiece that is the thematic and sensual equal of such cinematically potent fare as "Maladolescenza" (reviewed), "To Be Twenty" (reviewed) and "Heavenly Creatures". Eager to experience as much "life" as possible, the two protagonists wreak unholy havoc in a small rural hamlet by setting fire to property, killing animals, engaging in anti-Catholic rituals, and using their naive carnal charms to seduce a string of men who all meet unfortunate fates. The seduction scenes, in particular, are very erotic, and it's unlikely they would be attempted today in this highly reactionary, less sexually permissive era. The photography, by Marcel Combes, is stunning, and reminded me of the night sequences in Richard Blackburn's "Lemora, A Child Tale of the Supernatural"; also, the hypnotic musical score, by Claude Germain and Dominique Ney, turns everything to poetry. One of the best films ever made about the attraction of the dark, it is a brilliant achievement both for its dream-like atmosphere and thematic courage of its convictions. The final scene, which possesses both an inevitable element of tragedy and considerable shock value, is wonderful.