La Setta
Directed by:
Michele SoaviComposer:
Pino DonaggioCast:
Kelly Curtis, Herbert Lom, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Tomas Arana, Richard Sammel, Michele Soavi, Daria Nicolodi, Mariangela Giordano, Donald O'Brien (more)Plots(1)
Michele Soavi directs this '70s Italian horror. In Frankfurt, schoolteacher Miriam Kreisl (Kelly Leigh Curtis) is inducted into the Sect of the Faceless Ones, seduced by the charisma of its leader Moebius Kelly (Herbert Lom), and faces a series of terrifying ceremonies and ritualistic killings. After nearly running over the old man and innocently offering him a place to stay, Miriam has no idea what the satanic cult has lying in store for her. (Shameless Films)
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The Sect suffers from the shortcoming that Michele Soavi wanted to make a really big film that would be truly terrifying and would reference the atmosphere of classic Italian films in terms of their horror. However, he failed to build on Bava because the film just doesn't work as a whole. It crumbles in the hands of the creators in many parts, which individually come out quite well, but together they are too shapeless. The film won't blow you away, which is a shame because there was definitely potential here.
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Very unsettling, really (the moment bugs start crawling into somebody’s body orifices, the gloves are off!), and atmospheric and disgusting at times, but as a whole, it looks terribly choppy, incoherent and unfocused. Disappointment.
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