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Release Date: 1976 Cast: Sammy Williams, Tony Lo Bianco, Mike Kellin, Andy Kaufman, Richard Lynch, Sam Levene, Harry Bellaver, Sandy Dennis, Deborah Raffin, Jo Flores Chase, Robert Drivas, Lester Rawlins ...MORE
Cast: Sammy Williams, Tony Lo Bianco, Mike Kellin, Andy Kaufman, Richard Lynch, Sam Levene, Harry Bellaver, Sandy Dennis, Deborah Raffin, Jo Flores Chase, Robert Drivas, Lester Rawlins, Sylvia Sidney ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Thriller, Detective fiction, B-movie, Detective, Supernatural, Horror, Science Fiction, Cult, Mystery, Crime Thriller God Told Me To (released in some theatrical and video markets as Demon and God Told Me to Kill) is a 1976 science fiction/horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen. Like many of Cohen's films, it is set in New York City and incorporates aspects of the police procedural.
Peter Nicholas (Tony LoBianco), a Catholic police detective, investigates a series of murders being committed by various random, seemingly normal assailants, who claim that God told them to kill. Nicholas finds that the murderers have been influenced by a religious cult leader, Bernard Phillips (Richard Lynch) whose... MORE
God Told Me To (released in some theatrical and video markets as Demon and God Told Me to Kill) is a 1976 science fiction/horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen. Like many of Cohen's films, it is set in New York City and incorporates aspects of the police procedural.
Peter Nicholas (Tony LoBianco), a Catholic police detective, investigates a series of murders being committed by various random, seemingly normal assailants, who claim that God told them to kill. Nicholas finds that the murderers have been influenced by a religious cult leader, Bernard Phillips (Richard Lynch) whose origins are a mystery.
Andy Kaufman appears as a possessed policeman who goes on a shooting rampage at the Saint Patrick's Day parade — it was Kaufman's first role in any film, and the same footage was later used for the finale of a documentary called The Passion of Andy Kaufman, in a segment called "Thus Spake Zarathustra", with music by Eumir Deodato. Sylvia Sidney appears as the detective's traumatized mother.
Bernard Herrmann, who had scored Cohen's earlier film It's Alive, was originally assigned to score God Told Me To as well, and Cohen claims on the DVD commentary track that Herrmann saw LESS
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