God Told Me To [Special Edition]

Director: Larry Cohen Larry Cohen

Overview

Also known as Gigantis, this first Godzilla sequel finds the giant lizard destroying Osaka as Angorus attempts to defeat him.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/24/2015
UPC:	0827058116190
Original Release:	1976
Rating:	R
Source:	Blue Underground
Language:	English
Time:	1:32:00
Sales rank:	38,639

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Tony Lo Bianco	Peter Nicholas
Deborah Raffin	Casey Forster
Sandy Dennis	Martha Nicholas
Sylvia Sidney	Elizabeth Mullin
Sam Levene	Everett Lukas
Robert Drivas	David Morten
Mike Kellin	Deputy Commissioner
Richard Lynch	Bernard Phillips
Sammy Williams	Harold Gorman
Jo Flores Chase	Mrs. Gorman
William Roerick	Richard
Lester Rawlins	Board Chairman
Harry Bellaver	Cookie
George Patterson	Zero
Walter Steele	Junkie
Watter Steele	Junkie
Alan Cauldwell	Bramwell as a Youth
Robert Nichols	Fletcher
Andy Kaufman	Police Assassin
Al Fann	Detective Squad
James Dixon	Detective Squad
Bobby Ramsen	Detective Squad
Peter Hock	Detective Squad
Alex Stevens	Detective Squad
Harry Madsen	Detective Squad
Randy Jurgensen	Detective Squad
Sherry Steiner	Bernard's Mother as a Young Woman
James Dukas	Doorman
Mason Adams	Obstetrician
William Bressant	Police Officer
Armand Dahan	Fruit Vendor
Vida Taylor	Miss Mullin as a Girl
Adrian James	Prostitute
Leila Martin	Nurse Jackson
Michael Pendry	Attendant
Dan Resin	Wall Street Executive
Alexander Clark	Wall Street Executive
Marvin Silbisher	Wall Street Executive
Harry Eno	Medical Examiner
John Heffernan	Bramwell

Technical Credits

Larry Cohen

Larry Cohen	Director,Screenwriter,Producer
Daniel Blatt	Executive Producer
Edgar J. Scherick	Executive Producer
Sylvia Fay	Casting
Steve Neill	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

This may be the audacious film in Larry Cohen's filmography and, given that said filmography contains films like It's Alive and The Private Files Of J. Edgar Hoover, that is saying quite a lot. Despite the outlandish murder-mystery premise and the high body count, God Told Me To is a surprisingly thoughtful film that devotes much screen time to serious, surprisingly intense dramatic scenes where characters debate Catholicism, the role of religion in modern society and the concept of mankind misinterpreting aliens as gods. God Told Me To keeps this heady brew afloat thanks to Cohen's relentless approach - the finished product shows the usual rough edges and rushed scenes that pop up in his work but he follows through on his outrageous ideas without fear or hesitation. Along the way, he achieves a number of genuinely haunting moments: the best are a moment where a man under the spell of the villain calmly recounts how he killed his own family and the scene where Peter discovers the identity of his true parents. Moments like these are incredibly powerful because God Told Me To happens to be blessed with a stellar cast: the underrated Tony LoBianco gives one of his best perfomances as Peter, giving a human center to the unusual story by making the confusion and inner torment of the character painfully real. Deborah Raffin and Sandy Dennis add further dramatic weight as the strong, very different female figures (the campus intellectual and troubled surrogate mother-type, respectively) that he can't choose between. The combination of Cohen's approach and these skilled performances add up to a film that has greater power than its outlandish plot would hint at. In the end, some viewers might be thrown off by Cohen's rough-hewn style and the bizarre ideas but God Told Me To is ideal viewing for cult movie fans.