A ★★★ review of Deadly Blessing (1981)

Film #17 of Hooptober XI: The Inevitable Streaming Legacy Sequel On the surface, Deadly Blessing is a rather middling and easily overlooked horror flick. But there’s more here than meets the eye in terms of its importance to the genre. This 1981 slasher represents a crossroad moment for Wes Craven’s career as he moved from the man who gave us The Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes into the director of more polished, commercial films like A Nightmare On Elm Street, Deadly Friend and Shocker. Deadly Blessing still has traces of the independent, take-no-prisoners Craven in