God Told Me To
God Told Me To is a 1976 film from the USA, directed by Larry Cohen, running 91 minutes. reelscum files it under occult & satanic panic.
- Year
- 1976 · 1970s films
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Director
- Larry Cohen
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (41/100)
- Also known as
- Demon
Defined in the glossary: Occult & satanic panic
A detective investigates random killers who all say God ordered it. It goes somewhere insane.
Larry Cohen's most ambitious and deranged film. A devout NYPD detective investigates a wave of random mass killings whose perpetrators all calmly explain that God told them to, and the trail leads to a virgin-born messianic figure and a revelation about the detective's own origins that no summary can do justice.
It is a genuine one-off, mixing police procedural, science fiction, religious horror and social breakdown into something no studio would ever greenlight. Ambitious, uneven and unforgettable. Cohen at his most out-there.
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