La Setta (The Devil's Daughter) (Demons 4) (The Sect) (1991)

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This stylishly photographed horror movie centers upon a beautiful, good-hearted schoolteacher whose life becomes a living hell after she is chosen to bear the son of Satan. Her horrible ordeal begins when an ancient enigmatic traveller places an ancient, supposedly extinct, insect up her nose. It… More This stylishly photographed horror movie centers upon a beautiful, good-hearted schoolteacher whose life becomes a living hell after she is chosen to bear the son of Satan. Her horrible ordeal begins when an ancient enigmatic traveller places an ancient, supposedly extinct, insect up her nose. It crawls into her brain. She soon begins having terrifying dreams and more. When she learns the awful truth about her relationship with the Dark Master things get even worse. Still the baby is born and the poor woman faces a terrible and, genre-wise, surprising choice. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

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Rating, Runtime: R, 1 hr. 52 min.
Directed By: Michele Soavi
Genres: Horror, Art House & International, Science Fiction & Fantasy

In Theaters: Mar 1, 1991 Wide
On DVD: Jan 2, 1991
Studio: Republic Pictures Home Video

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As with the earlier La Chiesa (The Church), one comes away from La Setta (The Sect) feeling that if only Michele Soavi could get over the fact that he rather enjoyed Rosemary's Baby, he'd be eminently capable of making… More
As with the earlier La Chiesa (The Church), one comes away from La Setta (The Sect) feeling that if only Michele Soavi could get over the fact that he rather enjoyed Rosemary's Baby, he'd be eminently capable of making something extraordinary all of his own. To be honest, I haven't seen anything he made after this movie, so he may well have done it for all I know. Again, as with La Chiesa, Soavi pulls off some stunning visual coups and generates a strong atmosphere, though occasionally his set-pieces fail to deliver on the promise of their careful build-up, suggesting an unfavourable style to substance ratio. In particular, there is a wonderfully tense mortuary scene involving a coffin and a can-opener that peters out with an anti-climactic whimper.