Created on June 26th, 2008 by KamuiX
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I’m a big fan of Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures. I feel it’s one of the most overlooked films of the 90’s, and a turning point in Jackson’s career. After having seen it, I became really interested in the true-story behind it, one of two girls whose lives were so mundane and boring that they needed to create a fantasy world with one another to make it through the day, and would even resort to murder to keep their imagined world whole. So imagine my surprise as I was watching Joël Séria’s Don’t Deliver Us From Evil and noticing many similarities. A quick Google search confirmed that Don’t Deliver Us From Evil is indeed loosely based on the same story. That alone would make it a pretty scandalous film for 1971, but add in all of the anti-Christian sentiments and teenage temptresses and you have a film that would still ruffle many feathers today.
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