The Sect Movie Review

The Sect is a 1991 horror movie directed by Michele Soavi and written/produced by Dario Argento and starring Kelly Curtis and Herbert Lom.

The movie begins in California, 1970. A group of hippies are living on their commune. A man comes out of nowhere. He asks them for help. He kills the group with his accomplices. They take their things. It is a sacrifice. Cut to Frankfurt, German in 1991. A woman is being followed by a man. She runs away from him. He is waiting for her at her house and he asks her why she disobeyed him. He kills her and gets onto the subway. Thieves steal something from his pocket. It is a human heart.
He runs away but the police catch him and he shoots himself. He says that he was just a pawn.He had no choice. An old man Moebius Kelly(Lom)  says that it is time and he throws his keys into the river and goes off with a parcel. He is on the bus when he starts to cough. He is not well. He gets hit by a car. The driver is called a woman called Miriam(Curtis). The man is okay but she offers him a lift. He seems to know her. She is a teacher.

He falls asleep in her house so she leaves him there. The old man opens the box he had with him. He goes upstairs and lets himself into her bedroom. He puts an insect into her nose while she is asleep.
She has weird dreams about a bird pecking her. She finds the man dying. The phone is dead. She has to walk to get the doctor. While she has gone, the old man goes to her basement and looks around. There is a well down there. There is something in there. He dies. Miriam gets back with the doctor and they see that he has gone. They find his body. His body is picked up and the doctor says that he will see her tomorrow.

Her pipes are clogged up with weird stuff. It is coming from the well. She goes down to the basement and there is a woman down there. She asks her what is going on and runs off. One of Miriam's students draws a picture of the insect that the old man inserted into Miriam's nose. Her mother doesn't come to collect her. Miriam takes the child home. The child shows her her mother's work. The insect is extinct. Miriam recognises it and she faints. The maid at the house is the same woman who was in Miriam's basement. Miriam's friend Catherine is staying with her. She gets affected by a cloth that was left by the old man. She dresses up and goes looking for sex. She has a knife with her. He ends up killing her and he says that she made him do it.

Miriam gets a call from the old man who says that he left his diary with her. He tells her to keep it for him. She gets a call about her friend Catherine. She goes to see her dead body. Catherine suddenly jumps up and attacks her. Then she cuts her own throat. Miriam is horrified. She and the doctor talk about the old man and he tells her that Moebius is dead. They go to find his body. The doctor finds the diary and there are pictures of the basement. He wanders around and sees something strange happening in the woods. It is a cult and they are performing some sort of ritual on a woman. They have the body of the old man and they take her face off and put it onto his face. He comes to life.
He is the master.

The doctor is affected by the old man's cloth and he turns evil. He tries to kill Miriam. She is taken by the cult. Moebius tells her that the cult is her family. They found her a job and a house. They have planned her life for her. She is drugged and she wakes up in the basement. She sees a bird and he pecks at her neck. She has been chosen to give birth to Satan's child. She is inseminated by an evil creature.She has the child. Miriam sees it. Moebius tells her that she can raise it if she wants. Se takes the baby and runs.She is chased but she sets fire to herself and the baby. The movie ends with Miriam still alive. Her son saved her life.

This was an interesting movie. There is lots happening and it can be a little confusing. I liked the story and it was well written. I liked the ending too as I did not expect that to happen. It is one that I had meant to watch for a long time and I am glad that I saw it eventually. It is well worth a watch and I found it entertaining and interesting. I will give this one a 6/10.