Review of Deadly Blessing (1981) by Orlando D — 15 Dec 2012
Deadly Blessing by Wes Craven is a mixed bag. It does not have the low budget intensity of his earlier work like Last House on the Left or The Hills Have Eyes or its commerical appeal found later on in a Nightmare on Elm Street(Craven did re-create the bathtub scene in Nightmare, seen first in Deadly.
) Here we have a young couple(Douglas Barr and Maren Jensen) celebrating their one year anniversary in a small desolate village where The Hittities, as one character states "They make the Amish look like swingers.
" Barr was a member and left to marry Jensen, who has been called an Incubus. Barr is accidentially killed and Jensen's girlfriends come for support including a young Sharon Stone(who finds an aversion to spiders and has the creepiest scene.
) Craven, working with a small budget, manages to get Hollywood vet Ernest Borgine and newcomers including Lisa Hartman and the cast is good. It starts off rather interesting but towards the end feels like a rush job and the viewer feels rather cheated.
Not one of Craven's worst but could have been a whole lot better.
This review of Deadly Blessing (1981) was written by Orlando D on 15 Dec 2012.
Deadly Blessing has generally received mixed reviews.
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