Deadly Blessing

Deadly Blessing (1981)

  • 20% of critics liked it
    (5 reviews)

  • 35% of users liked it
    (513 ratings)

Deadly Blessing, a disappointing effort from famed horror-film director Wes Craven, tells the story of a woman's fight against a religious cult which will not stop at murder. Martha (Maren Jensen) lives alone near a conservative, repressive religious cult led by Isaiah (Ernest Borgnine). Martha's… More

R, 1 hr. 42 min.
Directed By
Wes Craven
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure, Horror, Mystery & Suspense, Cult Movies
In Theaters
Aug 14, 1981 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • 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

  • Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

    Craven misses the mark with this one.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Lee ?


    A tame but fairly decent effort from Wes Craven. The film doesn't provide much of a body count or gory detail for splatter fans, but it does well building suspense and moments of creepiness and sets up a very good finale with an unexpected turn in the plot. It's not the most… More

  • Wahida K


    Not bad, it was entertaining I must say.

  • Marcus W


    The whole film is a whodunnit: are the Amish evil or misunderstood? Has the farmers wife gone mad? Then Sharon Stone turns up and keeps dreaming of spiders, and it's pathetically obvious who the killer is. The best thing to do is read the DVD cover, skip to the bathtub bit, and… More

  • Christopher B


    Deadly boring. At least Berryman was in it.

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