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The Sect / La setta (1991) [Re-UP]

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Date: 30 Apr 2015 11:44:00
The Sect / La setta (1991) [Re-UP]

The Sect (1991)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 16:9 | Cover | 01:52:07 | 5,72 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps; Italian DTS/AC3 5.1 @ 1536/384 Kbps | Subs: Italian SDH
Genre: Fantasy, Horror

Director: Michele Soavi
Stars: Kelly Curtis, Herbert Lom, Mariangela Giordano

A spree of grisly murders is perpetrated in Frankfurt by a group of Satan worshippers. A school teacher almost runs over an old man with a box and takes him in. It's no accident that the old man has come into her life, and it quickly becomes apparent that he has plans for her, plans that involve a permanent future with the Satanic cult.

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AKA: The Devil's Daughter (1991) or Demons 4 (1991)

The lives of a group of hippies in 1970s California are rocked by the arrival of a crazed Rolling Stones fanatic, Damon (Tomas Arana), who invades their camp and, with the help of his cult of sinister buddies, dispatches the piece-lovin' flower children. Cut to present-day Frankfurt, and an attractive young woman (aren't they all?) is offed by a madman, who scoops out her heart and takes it with him for a ride on the subway. Confronted by the resident security guards, he comits suicide. It seems that ritual murders and suicides are taking place throughout Germany, the work of a demonic cult. None of this seems relevant to Miriam Kreisl (Kelly Curtis), an pretty schoolteacher who lives alone with only her pet rabbit for company.

The Sect / La setta (1991) [Re-UP]

After narrowly avoiding mowing down an old man (Herbert Lom) with her car, she takes him home, where he seemingly collapses and dies, but not before infecting her with a bizarre parasite and opening up an apparently bottomless pit in her basement. It turns out that the old man is the cult's leader, and that their plans involve impregnating her with the Antichrist. To reveal any more would spoil the movie, but suffice to say that the whole affair is filled with bizarre imagery, disturbing dream sequences, inventive murders and one very smart bunny!

The Sect / La setta (1991) [Re-UP]

Michele Soavi's second and last project for producer Dario Argento, The Sect (La Setta) looks and feels a great deal like Trauma, Argento's much-maligned foray into the perils of American filmmaking. This is not particular surprising given that it shares two significant players, namely composer Pino Donaggio, whose work for Argento has never been on the same level as his work for Brian de Palma, and cinematographer Raffaele Mertes, whose drab but atmospheric visuals are instantly recognizable. Certainly, after the phenomenal success of The Church's photography, which in many ways saved the film from its weak screenplay, The Sect's brown and rather unappealling look comes as something of a disappointment. This film's strengths lie elsewhere, its deeper substance contrasting with The Church's superficiality.

The Sect / La setta (1991) [Re-UP]

Things get off to a worryingly bad start, with a laughable prologue set in the 1970s Californian desert and featuring a group of hippies coming a-cropper when they encounter a deranged man with a beard (Tomas Arana hamming it up something rotten) with a propensity to quote the Rolling Stones. Written by Argento, an avid Stones fan (guitarist Bill Wyman provided music for Phenomena and Opera), Soavi and co-writer Gianni Romoli both claim that they let him write this ludicrous preamble in the hope that he would leave the rest of the script alone. Indeed, as soon as the prologue ends the quality of the writing and the film as a whole improve dramatically.

The Sect / La setta (1991) [Re-UP]

The character of Miriam is appealling, not just because of the solid performance by Kelly Curtis (youngest daughter of Janet Leigh), but because the role is well-written, filled with oddities that serve to make her a very endearing lead. The film is paced slowly, with the events gradually unfolding and the tension slowly mounting. Along the way, Soavi adds interest in the form of nightmarish dream sequences that blur the line between fantasy and reality, and weird "bunnycam" point of view shots, all of which serve to establish a sensation of uneasiness and the feeling that we are in a world other than our own.

The Sect / La setta (1991) [Re-UP]

Like Soavi's final film to date, Dellamorte Dellamore, The Sect is an incredibly visceral experience and one that defies a literal explanation. Falling squarely between his second and fourth feature film outings (The Church and Dellamorte Dellamore respectively) both chronologically and in terms of overall quality, I would not consider it vital viewing, but it should prove to be an unnerving and sufficiently different experience for curiosity seekers. Soavi remains the most interesting of Italy's new generation of horror directors, and while not his best work, this is a solid effort.

The Sect / La setta (1991) [Re-UP]

With The Sect, Michele Soavi continues to cement his skills as a filmmaker and ends up delivering movie that works slightly more successfully than The Church without achieving the same level of visual quality (although I would not say that the difference is significant enough for The Sect to deserve a higher overall score). Although not up to his fourth (and to date final) movie, the spellbinding Dellamorte Dellamore, The Sect remains a solid effort and one that is well worth seeking out.
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