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mariocki · 3 months ago

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God Told Me To (Demon, 1976)

"You're probably too young. When I was around when Orson Welles told the people over CBS that the Martians were in New Jersey - and believe me, the show was not that convincing, not that good... and you want me to tell them that God is at 57th Street and Madison Avenue, coaching snipers?"

#god told me to #demon #1976 #larry cohen #american cinema #tony lo bianco #deborah raffin #sandy dennis #sylvia sidney #sam levene #robert drivas #richard lynch #mike kellin #sammy williams #jo flores chase #sherry steiner #vida taylor #andy kaufman #lelia martin #george patterson #a singularly unique film‚ and i suspect one for which ymmv greatly‚ but to me this was something close to a masterpiece #working from a risible premise‚ taking absurdist left turns‚ delivering a plot that would have been basest exploitation fodder #in really any other hands; somehow Cohen approaches it all so sincerely and with such precision that he sells it completely and this #instead retains a sheen of Serious Cinema. art‚ even. touched by ideas of 50s paranoid sci fi and 70s conspiracy‚ as well as standard #police procedural and more traditional horror elements; this digs into many genres all at once but somehow comes out above them all #a film not without genre exactly‚ but beyond it. and of course there's Cohen's sharp‚ spiky satirical script. clearly a deeply talented and #fiercely original creator. this ends on one of the final shots to end all final shots‚ one of the most unsettling looks down the camera #I've encountered‚ and it's surely as much a challenge from the director as it is anything related to the character or the scene #my first Larry C but definitely not my last

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