God Told Me To (1976)

Directed by

Larry Cohen

Genre

horror film, science fiction film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

R

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 159 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A religious New York police detective investigates a series of random murders and attacks. The suspects all claim God told them to kill. The detective looks into a cult leader who may have psychic influence and also finds clues about his own mysterious birth.

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What happens

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 was shot on location in New York City and incorporates aspects of the police procedural. The film depicts sniper attacks, mass stabbings, mass shootings, and familicides performed by seemingly normal people, who all claim that God told them to kill. A religious NYPD detective suspects that the perpetrators were influenced by a cult leader with apparent psychic powers. During the investigation, the detective also investigates his own past and the identity of his birth mother. He discovers that both he and the cult leader were the result of mysterious virgin births. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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