Review of Don't Deliver Us from Evil

I got two main troubles with Don't Deliver Us From the Evil - neither the level on the horror-o-meter nor on the sleaze-o-meter are strong ones. Attacking the Catholic church and its belief and institutions and promoting some young girls sexual and cruel fantasies must have been something shocking in the early 70s to the common folk that was not part of the Flower Power movement, but watched with today's by countless horror flicks steeled eyes I just can say: too tame, too slow, and takes itself rather too serious for its own good. And last but not least, compared with such still good looking and entertaining movies like The Exorcist, The Hills Have Eyes, Clockwork Orange, Carrie, Suspiria, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Dawn of the Dead, Don't Deliver Us From Evil is a rather mediocre and forgetable movie and maybe more interesting for the connoisseur of French drama cinema, which is not my specialty. In short: not enough horror, not enough suspense, not enough Satan, not enough cheese.