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Actors: Hugh Quarshie, Tomas Arana, Barbara Cupisti, Asia Argento, Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Church |
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The screenplay of THE CHURCH has been written by Dario Argento and Michele Soavi who directed the movie on 1988.
Germany, the Medieval Times. The possessed inhabitants of a small village lost in the forest are slaughtered by Crusaders who built a church on the dead corpses. Hundred of years later, the vault is accidentally open and a subtle mechanism invented by the architect of the church closes the only door of the religious building. Trapped, the visitors of the church are attacked and possessed by what lied beneath.
Poor acting and screenplay but superb cinematography and some scenes worthy to appear in an anthology. After Mario Bava and Dario Argento, Michele Soavi perpetuates the italian horror tradition.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Church |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 50%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Horror film?
Yes
Horror Plotlets:
- haunted house or boat
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- religious figure
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard curly (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Main Adversary
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- can change shapes
- mind control
- super strength
- Invisibility
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Germany
Forest?
Yes
Misc setting
- sewers/subways
- cave
- church/synagogue
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- sex under blankets
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- run over
- impaled
- decapitated
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- nasty human transformations
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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