'The Sect' (1991) – Michele Soavi.
Italian terror iconoclast Michele Soavi is now widely regarded among horror fans as being one of the finest, comfort zone polluting fear-masters of his generation, courageously pushing the boundaries of Giallo mayhem with his immaculately depraved 'Stage Fright', Soavi majestically manifests one of his most sinisterly Satanic celluloid sensations with his deliriously psychedelic occult nightmare 'The Sect' aka 'The Devil's Daughter', making Polanski's 'Rosemary's Baby' look like a fistful of frogspawn, he dares seasoned horror fans to stare into this brackish well of despond, and lurking menacingly within these glacial, benighted darkling depths, the visionary director, and no less celebrated co-writer Dario Argento inculcate some of their most abominable, nerve-strafingly sinister scenarios!
Opening on a savage sequence of Manson-esque satanic slaughter, headed by fright-wigged B-Movie hero Tomas Arana as Damon, and ominously overseen by the omnipresent, mystery-shrouded figure of Moebius Kelly (Herbert Lom), who has set his blackened, drug-soaked eyes on pretty young teacher Miriam Kriesel (Kelly Curtis), who is very soon inexorably drawn into a terrifyingly surreal realm of profane, satanically strange, moonlit madness, with grisly face-ripping rituals, and vile, debased inter-cranial insect incubating insanity, macabre maestro Michele Soavi's increasingly insidious, divinely skewed shocker shines ever more darkly on high definition, so sin-seeking splatter fans can now finally experience one of the 90s most audaciously bizarre, and starkly disturbing invocations of deliriously disturbing, mind-warping deviltry with soul-withering clarity!
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