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Deadly Blessing
Deadly Blessing is a 1981 American supernatural slasher film directed by Wes Craven and starring Maren Jensen, Susan Buckner, Sharon Stone, Jeff East, and Ernest Borgnine. The film tells the story of a strange figure committing murder in a contemporary farming community adjacent to a religious sect that believes in ancient evil and curses.
Craven became involved in the project through producer Max A. Keller, who had cowritten and produced Craven's previous directorial credit, Stranger in Our House (1978). Deadly Blessing was shot on location in Texas in late 1980 and distributed through United Artists, marking Craven's first major studio feature. Released in the summer of 1981, it received mixed reviews from critics but was a modest box office success, grossing over $8 million in the United States.
Martha and Jim Schmidt live on an isolated Pennsylvania farm named "Our Blessing." Most of their neighbors are Hittites, an austere religious community led by Jim's father Isaiah Schmidt, who forbids any interaction with non-Hittites. After breaking up a fight between one Hittite member, William Gluntz, and another, more artistically-minded neighbor, Faith Stohler, Jim finds the word "incubus" scrawled on the wall of his barn. Later that night, Jim is killed when his tractor suddenly starts up and crushes him against a wall. Isaiah and other Hittites observe Jim's funeral, as he was a lapsed member of their community; they consider Martha to be an incubus for having lured him away from their religion.
Martha's friends Lana Marcus and Vicky Anderson visit the farm, hoping to persuade her to return to Los Angeles. While creeping around Our Blessing at night, William is stabbed in the back by a black-clad figure. The following day, while looking for William, Isaiah offers to buy the farm from Martha, but she angrily refuses. Lana is nearly trapped in the barn by the black-clad figure. As she escapes, she finds William's corpse hanging from a rope.
The Sheriff advises the three friends to leave town, as someone may be after them, but they decide to stay against his advice. When Isaiah finds out that Jim's brother John has been seeing Vicky, he beats then exiles him. John meets Vicky outside the local cinema and she lets John drive her car, giving him a sense of freedom. They stop at the side of a road and begin to make out but they are killed by the black-clad figure.
Lana, overwhelmed by disturbing dreams, begins to believe that death is pursuing her. Martha discovers that Jim's grave has been dug up and the casket filled with chickens from the Stohlers' farm. Inside the Stohlers' barn, she finds Jim's body and an altar to her. John's estranged fiancée Melissa arrives reciting a ritual of exorcism but is attacked by Faith's mother, Louisa. It is revealed that Faith and Louisa, who hate the Hittites, have been the black-dressed figures murdering them. Martha struggles with them and tears open Faith's shirt, revealing her to be a transsexual who has been in love with Martha. Faith and Louisa pursue Martha to Our Blessing. There, Lana kills Louisa and a late-arriving Melissa stabs Faith to death. In a religious fervor, Melissa threatens Martha next, but Isaiah arrives and assures her that the messenger of the incubus has already been killed.
The following day, Lana departs to her home in Los Angeles. Martha, alone in the farmhouse, is visited by Jim's ghost who tries to warn her, before the incubus bursts through the floor and drags Martha to hell.
After directing the television horror film Stranger in Our House (1978) under producer Max Keller, Wes Craven was offered to assist in rewrites on Keller's subsequent project, Deadly Blessing. Keller had been impressed by Craven's impromptu rewrites during the filming of Stranger in Our House. The original screenplay for Deadly Blessing had been cowritten by Glenn M. Benest, who had also cowritten Stranger in Our House.
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Deadly Blessing
Deadly Blessing is a 1981 American supernatural slasher film directed by Wes Craven and starring Maren Jensen, Susan Buckner, Sharon Stone, Jeff East, and Ernest Borgnine. The film tells the story of a strange figure committing murder in a contemporary farming community adjacent to a religious sect that believes in ancient evil and curses.
Craven became involved in the project through producer Max A. Keller, who had cowritten and produced Craven's previous directorial credit, Stranger in Our House (1978). Deadly Blessing was shot on location in Texas in late 1980 and distributed through United Artists, marking Craven's first major studio feature. Released in the summer of 1981, it received mixed reviews from critics but was a modest box office success, grossing over $8 million in the United States.
Martha and Jim Schmidt live on an isolated Pennsylvania farm named "Our Blessing." Most of their neighbors are Hittites, an austere religious community led by Jim's father Isaiah Schmidt, who forbids any interaction with non-Hittites. After breaking up a fight between one Hittite member, William Gluntz, and another, more artistically-minded neighbor, Faith Stohler, Jim finds the word "incubus" scrawled on the wall of his barn. Later that night, Jim is killed when his tractor suddenly starts up and crushes him against a wall. Isaiah and other Hittites observe Jim's funeral, as he was a lapsed member of their community; they consider Martha to be an incubus for having lured him away from their religion.
Martha's friends Lana Marcus and Vicky Anderson visit the farm, hoping to persuade her to return to Los Angeles. While creeping around Our Blessing at night, William is stabbed in the back by a black-clad figure. The following day, while looking for William, Isaiah offers to buy the farm from Martha, but she angrily refuses. Lana is nearly trapped in the barn by the black-clad figure. As she escapes, she finds William's corpse hanging from a rope.
The Sheriff advises the three friends to leave town, as someone may be after them, but they decide to stay against his advice. When Isaiah finds out that Jim's brother John has been seeing Vicky, he beats then exiles him. John meets Vicky outside the local cinema and she lets John drive her car, giving him a sense of freedom. They stop at the side of a road and begin to make out but they are killed by the black-clad figure.
Lana, overwhelmed by disturbing dreams, begins to believe that death is pursuing her. Martha discovers that Jim's grave has been dug up and the casket filled with chickens from the Stohlers' farm. Inside the Stohlers' barn, she finds Jim's body and an altar to her. John's estranged fiancée Melissa arrives reciting a ritual of exorcism but is attacked by Faith's mother, Louisa. It is revealed that Faith and Louisa, who hate the Hittites, have been the black-dressed figures murdering them. Martha struggles with them and tears open Faith's shirt, revealing her to be a transsexual who has been in love with Martha. Faith and Louisa pursue Martha to Our Blessing. There, Lana kills Louisa and a late-arriving Melissa stabs Faith to death. In a religious fervor, Melissa threatens Martha next, but Isaiah arrives and assures her that the messenger of the incubus has already been killed.
The following day, Lana departs to her home in Los Angeles. Martha, alone in the farmhouse, is visited by Jim's ghost who tries to warn her, before the incubus bursts through the floor and drags Martha to hell.
After directing the television horror film Stranger in Our House (1978) under producer Max Keller, Wes Craven was offered to assist in rewrites on Keller's subsequent project, Deadly Blessing. Keller had been impressed by Craven's impromptu rewrites during the filming of Stranger in Our House. The original screenplay for Deadly Blessing had been cowritten by Glenn M. Benest, who had also cowritten Stranger in Our House.