God Told Me To

Name: God Told Me To
Duration: 1 h 31 min

1hr 31m

1hr 31m
3.5/5 (5.8K)
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A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to." More Details »

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Director:

Larry Cohen

Runtime:

1hr 31m

Synopsis

A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."

Cast

Tony Lo Bianco
Deborah Raffin
Sandy Dennis
Sylvia Sidney
Sam Levene
Robert Drivas
Mike Kellin
Richard Lynch
Sammy Williams
Jo Flores Chase

Letterboxd User Reviews

3.5

RATINGS 39 FANS

3.5

Sep 10, 2022

Its funny when theres an anonymous tip that one of the police officers in the parade is going to do a shooting, and the camera pans over the marching policemen like Who’s it going to be? Who’s going to do the shooting? and then you see one of the cops is played by andy…

617 Likes

cameron fetter

100x scarier than alien genderflux jesus is realizing 40 years ago ppl were already reacting to mass shootings w/ false-flag conspiracy theories

539 Likes

pd187

Jan 28, 2024

I'm not out here saying Larry Cohen was the greatest director to ever live; I'm not crazy. All I'm saying is I can't think of a better one.

274 Likes

Branson Reese
Feb 21, 2019

Larry Cohen truly does the lord’s work when it comes to low budget bananas horror spectacles yeah boyyyyy. This isn’t quite up to the Q level of perfection (and really you can’t beat a movie about a winged serpent terrorizing NY that stars Michael Moriarty), but it comes…

224 Likes

Tony the Terror

Oct 4, 2019

We love an intersex god

215 Likes

Willow Maclay

Oct 27, 2022

beyond being an absolutely insane genre amalgam (is there anything else out there that combines sci-fi, body horror, the supernatural/metaphysical and a police procedural? I think not) this is, like the best American exploitation films, a total indictment of us as people…

187 Likes

Justin LaLiberty
Jan 8, 2020

64 Religious hysteria, or for America, just another Tuesday. Larry Cohen always made killer pulp exercises that offered high-concepts fast and cheap, and this is no different. Bizarre.

175 Likes

SilentDawn

Mar 8, 2015

Larry Cohen is all about unique juxtapositions (of genres!!), and the dichotomy here between grimy NYC and the truly psychedelic juju of the plot just does something for me that I can't really articulate. It's like watching an unfilmable novel.

163 Likes

Joe

Jan 17, 2020

Somehow had never seen this until now, despite a longstanding fascination with Cohen and the film's cult reputation. Even knowing Cohen's way with wild genre hooks, I wasn't prepared for how gloriously bugnuts this sci-fi/horror hybrid turned out to be, as a detective…

145 Likes

Scott Tobias

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This is the most confused feature-length film I've ever seen.

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

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.

Chuck Bowen

Slant Magazine

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