God is universally associated and synonymous with good and the opposite of evil. It becomes a mind-warping mystery then to see murders committed in the name of God. And while this would easily pass for mental illness or religious fanaticism in the real world, it made a captivating mystery, horror, and thriller in Larry Cohen’s God Told Me To.

Released months after the big horror hit of 1976 The Omen, God Told Me To has some amazing connections and parallels with The Omen, the Gregory Peck starrer supernatural horror production that became a secured the spot of a gem in horror. The core concept in both movies carries the conflict between evil and good – the former in the devil arriving for a takeover of humanity and the latter in realizing it is time to pick up the d...

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