God Told Me To

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God Told Me To (1976)

R 10/22/1976 (US) Crime, Horror, Science Fiction 1h 30m

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The people of this city are being terrorized. The crimes have no motives. The killers have only one explanation...

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A repressed Catholic NYPD detective uncovers a netherworld of deranged faith, alien insemination and his own unholy connection to a homicidal messiah with a perverse plan for the soul of mankind.

Larry Cohen

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Tony Lo Bianco

Peter J. Nicholas
Deborah Raffin

Casey Forster
Sandy Dennis

Martha Nicholas
Sylvia Sidney

Elizabeth Mullin
Sam Levene

Everett Lukas
Robert Drivas

David Morten
Mike Kellin

Deputy Commissioner
Richard Lynch

Bernard Phillips
Sammy Williams

Harold Gorman
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A detective in Manhattan (Tony Lo Bianco) is puzzled by a string of murders committed by unconnected people who, curiously, claim God told them to do it. Caught between his girlfriend (Deborah Raffin) and ex-wife (Sandy Dennis), he traces the crimes to a mysterious long-haired man (Richard Lynch).

Proficiently made by Larry Cohen, “God Told Me To” (1976) starts out like a brooding detective mystery/thriller with Clint Eastwood, but adds an eerie psychological/religious component and, finally, high concept sci-fi. It’s sort of a 70’s version of “Five Million Yea... read the rest.

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