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God Told Me To (released in some theatrical markets as Demon) is a 1976 science fiction horror film written, directed, and produced by Larry Cohen. Like many of Cohen's films, it is shot on location in New York City and incorporates aspects of the police procedural.
Oct 22, 1976 · God Told Me To: Directed by Larry Cohen. With Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis, Sylvia Sidney. A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."
Varied residents of NYC perpetrate murders which do not seem to have any motive. A detective then investigates these cases and witnesses the killers claiming that a divine force told them to do...
Jun 30, 2019 · God Told Me To (released in some theatrical markets as Demon) is a 1976 science fiction/horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen. Like many of Cohen's films, it is...
God Told Me To. Roger Ebert December 01, 1976. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. I wasn't going to see "God Told Me To" -- God, indeed, seemed to be telling me not to -- but then I read the press release and knew immediately this was a movie I had to see.
A New York police detective (Tony Lo Bianco) ties a death rampage to a cult and its leader (Richard Lynch), half man, half alien.
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When a sniper shoots people on the streets of New York from the water tank, the religious detective Peter J. Nicholas climbs the stairs to talk to the criminal and learn his motives for the death of 15 persons. He answers "God told me to" and jumps off, committing suicide.
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).
God Told Me To (1976) directed by Larry Cohen • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd. 1976. Directed by Larry Cohen. It will give you nightmares forever! 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.
God Told Me To is one of the key American horror films from the 1970s to mine the internally sexual, racial quandaries of a nation beset by one great civil rights catastrophe after another.
