God Told Me To (1976 film)

Creating God Told Me To (1976), AKA Demon,

Summary

"Conceived in a hell beyond our galaxy! Destined to rule our world! The people of this city are being terrorized. The crimes have no motives. The killers have only one explanation: God Told Me To!" A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to".

Details

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• Release Date: 1976
• Country/Language: US, English
• Genres/Technical: Crime, Mystery, Sci-fi, Horror
• Setting: 1970s New York
• Runtime: 1 hr 31 min
• Starring: Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis
• Director: Larry Cohen
• Writer: Larry Cohen
• Producer/Production Co: Larry Cohen, Big Hit Productions, New World Pictures
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Ratings

MPAA Ratings

• Rated: R (Violence, brief Nudity, mild Profanity and Adult Content)

Tentacle Ratings

A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:

• SS___ (Two Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian; vaguely similar in tone, could be a very loose adaptation)

A police detective discovers that the reason for the rise is bizarre, violent crime is a strange alien messiah who leads a doomsday cult programmed to execute his every command. There's the tiniest bit of "The Dunwich Horror (fiction)" involved here, and the end result otherwise is a sort of "The Omen - FROM SPACE!", meets a darker-and-edgier Kolchak: the Night Stalker (1975 series).....

Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.

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Synopsis (SPOILERS)

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A police detective discovers that the reason for the rise is bizarre, violent crime is a strange alien messiah, conceived from an alien abduction, who now leads a doomsday cult programmed to execute his every command.

Notes

Associated Mythos Elements

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Keeper Notes

• The investigators are swept up into an investigation of a wave of seemingly unrelated spree murders and other violent crimes, connected only by the otherwise normal suspects' assertion that "god told them to" commit the crimes; the clues all begin to point to the strange, indescribable, anonymous child of a UFO abductee, who had grow up into the inhuman leader of a bizarre doomsday cult.