Review of God Told Me To (1976) by Christopher S — 19 Nov 2007

This movie is very bizarre. VERY bizarre but that's part of its charm. Basically Richard Lynch is an alien that was birthed by a normal Earth women after she was abducted by aliens & artificially inseminated. He has all of these powers so people think he's God. He wills normal people to kill. And he looks pretty queenish. And he has a chest/ribcage vagina. I kid you not.

The film opens up with a sniper on top of a water tower shooting a bunch of innocent people because "God told him to." Peter Nicholas, a good cop that happens to be pretty religious, goes up & talks to the sniper. They carry on a normal conversation & the sniper seems perfectly fine...except that he's capping a bunch of innocents. Then he just jumps off the water tower. If John Kimble were there, he would've came down from the towa.

So more killings take place, committed by very normal people. God told them to. The most disturbing one is a family man that killed his wife, son, & daughter. He casually talks about how he did it like nothing is wrong. Disturbed the hell out of me. Very creepy. And one of the normal people was played by Andy Kaufman, in his first role. He played a cop that just started shooting people during a St. Patrick's Day parade.

Larry Cohen gives us a fun mixture of crime, horror, & sci-fi topped off with religious commentary. And it even says that Moses & all of the other religious icons were aliens. It's a very odd movie but very entertaining. Tony Lo Bianco did a great job as Peter Nicholas. His acting was really good. Also featuring Larry Cohen film regular Jim Dixon & Deborah "Chicken's Good" Raffin. It also has a pimp/drug dealer named Zero & a crackhead.