Review of Deadly Blessing (1981) by Guillaume H — 19 Aug 2016

People are too easy on Wes Craven. Sure, he gave the world Freddy Krueger, not to mention the original The Hills Have Eyes, but he also gave us a fuckton of worthless dross. 1981's Deadly Blessing is an example of said dross.

The plot is hardly worth hashing over. I think it's more than enough to simply say it's amazing how the man who wrote and directed A Nightmare on Elm Street, one of the very best horror films of the 1980s, could also make a film as bad as this one.

Torture yourself with this movie if you must, but don't say I didn't warn you. Craven's career was wildly uneven, and it's because of films like Deadly Blessing that I remain, Elm Street notwithstanding, ultimately a Craven skeptic.