DEADLY BLESSING (1981)
Directed by Wes Craven
Starring Maren Jensen and Ernest Borgnine
Jensen plays a farm widow who runs into trouble in an overly religious Hittite community following a freak accident that kills her husband.
Not only do the paranoid townsfolk hate her because they think she's an "incubus" (whatever that is), but a psycho killer is on the loose as well!
The best scene in the film has
Jensen relaxing in a bathtub as a snake emerges head first between her legs. On
a slightly related subject, Sharon Stone also stars.
Over all, however, the flick is forgettable. The score by James Horner is a ludicrous imitation of Jerry Goldsmith's soundtrack for "The Omen" and the ending is way too busy and overplotted to make a whole lot of sense.
Craven would go onto greatness ("A Nightmare on Elm Street, "The Serpent and the Rainbow," "Scream," et al.), but this film didn't show any hint of what was to come from him.
Pass.