Ernest Borgnine delivers a typically hammy, Razzie Award-nominated performance as a fire-and-brimstone sort prone to making declarations like "You are a stench in the nostrils of God!"

A questionable Wes Craven film is still more fun than many filmmakers at their best. This chaotic movie is unforgettable due to some big swings that (for the most part) work.

Deadly Blessing is no masterpiece to be sure, but it does make for an entertaining old fashioned horror movie, and amidst the welter of slash and stalk gore, this is welcome indeed.

this is lurid stuff, and probably all the better for the fetid, no-holds-barred atmosphere.