I love this movie so much

Admirable film.

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

There is no denying that "Deadly Blessing" has some effective scenes and that Wes Craven provides some inspired direction. The photography is great and the setting of the rural countryside is ideal. Casting Ernest Borgnine was certainly a feather in the capital of the film. However, I found the story quite hard to follow and a lack of incident. The climax was good though and also the build up to it. Michael Berryman is underused in "Deadly Blessing" and should have been given much more to do. Throughout the movie, there is an eerie feeling of awaiting some kind of supernatural phenomenon and this does happen after a while. A local farmer is suddenly murdered in his barn one night and this is followed by more violent deaths amongst the local community. Suspicion falls upon an Amish family who are rather set in their religious ways. Their harsh and uncompromising look on every day life could almost make them qualify as villains. Wes Craven was reported to have disliked the ending in the way it attempted to explain all that had happened. Personally, I enjoyed it. Not a bad horror film but it pales in comparison with "The Hills Have Eyes" and "A Nightmare On Elm Street."

(Plot) This takes place in an Amish country, at a local farm, where a woman's husband is inexplicably killed by his own tractor. Weird things start to happen after it. Wes Craven sure had some balls, you know that? With Last House on The Left, Nightmare on Elm Street, and this one, Craven is responsible for unique horror films. He also reinvigorated his status in the 90's with New Nightmare & the Scream franchise, but now he's succumbed to making drivel like My Soul to Take (which I barely remember) but he did redeem himself a bit with the highly entertaining Scream IV. I wouldn't say I enjoyed this movie, but I did appreciate its boldness. This movie is seriously out there at times, and a bit too confusing as well. That's my main complaint with this one. It's a bit too hard to tell what's going on at times. The Amish setting is certainly eerie, and provides you with some excellent atmosphere. There isn't a ton of gore, but it does get nasty at times. The scene where Maren Jensen is taking a bath, and a snake pops up is rather frightening. Craven seems to have a thing with creepy things in Bath's. Probably because a bath is very relaxing, and terror while taking a bath isn't expected, usually. Maren Jensen does well in the lead role. She had a couple wooden moments, but nothing too bad. Sharon Stone is as hot as my feet would be if I walked on hot coals. She was very good and showed why she became such a big star. Earnest Borgnine's surreal performance is just plain creepy. The ending is all kinds of messed up as well. Final Thoughts: It's hard to rate this movie. I wasn't disengaged that's for sure, but it's a bit too weird at times. I'm gonna say it's fascinating enough for me to give this a warrant of recommendation. I can't say I enjoyed it, but I gotta give it credit for making me think6/10

This film is set in Amish Country, at a local farm, where a woman's husband is mysteriously killed by his own tractor! Personally, I think Ernest Borgnine is a good Hittite, leading a group of religious fanatics that "make the Amish look like swingers". Borgnine was nominated for a Razzie award for "Worst Supporting Actor" for this movie. Really? I mean, he may not be brilliant, but he is not that bad.AllMovie comments that the film "finds director Wes Craven in a transitional phase between his hard-hitting early work and his later commercial successes." I am not sure what the hard-hitting phase was (presumably "Last House" and "Hills Have Eyes"). I would definitely agree this film falls into his more obscure, less-successful period.Time Out wrote, "Deadly Blessing isn't a very good movie, but it holds out distinct promise that Craven will soon be in the front rank of horror filmmakers", calling it "an excellent example of a mundane project elevated into quite a palatable genre movie by its director." If nothing out, they predicted Craven's rise to the top perfectly. Which is weird, because this film (as opposed to others) would not be the one that suggests his potential.As I write this (February 2013), there is a new Blu-Ray version coming out. Up until now, the film has never been seen on DVD or BD. I watched it on Netflix. Admittedly, I am curious how the film transfers. I might consider bumping the rating up one notch if the picture improves. The disc is also loaded with special features. That may not improve the film itself, but it could help put it into a better context of Craven's career.

Deadly Blessing is one of Wes Craven's lesser-known films, largely forgotten by all but the most avid horror buffs, but those who have thus far only sampled the director's more celebrated titles should definitely make the effort to check this one out: there's plenty of atmosphere, some effective scares, decent performances from a surprisingly good cast, and one hell of an unpredictable finalé, but best of all Deadly Blessing sees Craven planting seeds that would grow to become iconic moments in his later work.Maren Jensen threatened by a snake in her bath is undoubtedly the basis for an almost identical scene in A Nightmare on Elm Street, where Freddy's gloved hand rises out of the water between the legs of a dozing Nancy; Elm Street's freaky dream sequences clearly mirror those experienced by Sharon Stone's character in Deadly Blessing; and this film's shock ending is just as sudden and silly as Ronee Blakley's very similar departure through her front door window courtesy of Krueger.There are also a couple of striking similarities to Scream: Ghostface terrorising Neve Campbell is highly reminiscent of an attack on Stone by a cloaked figure in a barn, and there is little doubt in my mind that Scream's 'double killer' revelation was also inspired by this earlier Craven effort.And although this might be stretching things a tad, Deadly Blessing's 'chickens in the coffin' scene and its whole 'creepy religion' angle remind me just a bit of The Serpent and The Rainbow...Deadly Blessing's legacy is surely enough to qualify the film as recommended viewing for horror fans, but factor in several very attractive actresses (with Jensen providing the obligatory nudity), Michael Berryman from The Hills Have Eyes as Hittite man-child William Glutz, Howie from The Fall Guy, a supremely sinister Ernest Borgnine, several cool death scenes, a sneaky visual reference to Craven's 1978 TV Movie 'Summer of Fear', and the truly whacked-out last reel (which includes both a killer hermaphrodite and an incubus!), and what you have is an entertaining slice of American rural Gothic that definitely deserves a watch.