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The Church (1989)

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The Church (1989)	label	The Church (1989)
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The Church (1989)	comment	The Church (or La Chiesa in the original) is a 1989 Italian horror film written and produced by Dario Argento and directed by Michele Soavi.In The Middle Ages a village of accused heretics and witches are slaughtered by the The Teutonic Knights. The bodies are buried in a hole and a church is built on top of the burial site to contain the evil spirits.Fast forward to The '80s when Evan (Tomas Arana), a newly hired librarian uncovers the church's past and unwittingly breaks the seal and releases the vengeful spirits of the slain villagers. The Demonic possesssion or 'contagion' as it is referred to spreads like the common cold and soon, a switch is hit that seals the evil inside. Sadly, a wedding party who show up half way through the movie are trapped inside the Church with demonic spirits.A few main characters are developed early on, but by the midpoint they're largely forgotten about when the aforementioned wedding party shows up.In typical Dario Argento style, the film is short on story and script but big on set pieces and visuals and gore and naked women having sex with demons and Goblin.Dario Argento's daughter Asia Argento also plays a pivotal character.
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The Church (1989) / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
The Church (1989) / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: Evan at his typewriter types "6" over and over.
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The Church (1989) / int_146f4e0	type	Blind Without 'Em
The Church (1989) / int_146f4e0	comment	Blind Without 'Em: FrÃ¤ulein BrÃ¼ckner is blind without her glasses.
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The Church (1989) / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Church (1989) / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Black Sabbath star John Richardson cameos as the church's architect in a flashback. Director Michele Soavi appears as a cop.
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The Church (1989) / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Church (1989) / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: The grumpy Heinrich and his wife go up to the bell tower, and when the wife sees that there's no rope to pull to ring the bell, she uses his severed head.
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The Church (1989) / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Church (1989) / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Father Gus is one of the only one not possessed (or a Knight Templar) near the end.
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The Church (1989) / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Church (1989) / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: This isn't the first time Feodor Chaliapin Jr. played an evil clergyman in labyrinthine, gothic church.
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The Church (1989) / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Church (1989) / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: The Architect who designed the Church was tortured by the Teutonic Knights.
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The Church (1989) / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The Church (1989) / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Possessed!Evan tries to kill Lotte, who's played by Asia Argento when she was in her early teens.
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The Church (1989) / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
The Church (1989) / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: The ghosts of the villagers are buried far beneath the church.
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The Church (1989) / int_50ed1af4	type	Our Demons Are Different
The Church (1989) / int_50ed1af4	comment	Our Demons Are Different: Different in that they take the form of hallucinations and apparitions, and can assume their true form while inhabiting a human body.
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The Church (1989) / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Church (1989) / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Lotte's Father to Evan after both become possessed.
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The Church (1989) / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
The Church (1989) / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: A literal example, in that the titular church is corrupted by the evil that resides within it. Although the bishop is a pretty nasty person, too.
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The Church (1989) / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
The Church (1989) / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: Subverted with the bishop, who is often seen wearing a black hood and talking about the Devil. He comes off as grumpy at best, but not necessarily a bad guy. That is, until he reveals his plan to allow the plague to be unleashed upon the city. Ironically, he's wearing a Teutonic Knight garb in that scene.
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The Church (1989) / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Church (1989) / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Father Gus removes the device from the mouth of the Architect which causes the church to collapse
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The Church (1989) / int_7eaf99d	type	Malevolent Architecture
The Church (1989) / int_7eaf99d	comment	Malevolent Architecture: The church was built upon a mass grave of villagers and is inhabited by their
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The Church (1989) / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
The Church (1989) / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: Many of the hallucinations, ghosts of people who were killed in the movie, then there's the 'thing' at the end.
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The Church (1989) / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Church (1989) / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After he built the Church, the architect is tortured and left to die with the mechanism to destroy it inside his mouth.
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The Church (1989) / int_99a7aa94	type	Seven Deadly Sins
The Church (1989) / int_99a7aa94	comment	Seven Deadly Sins: Some of the ways the characters are enticed to either get into their head or outright kill themselves by the ghosts such as the Bride clawing her skin off her face because she thinks she's an old woman or the biker thinking his girlfriend is making out with a demon.
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The Church (1989) / int_aac4eeae	type	Same Language Dub
The Church (1989) / int_aac4eeae	comment	Same Language Dub: Feodor Chaliapin Jr. was dubbed by another actor in the English version.
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The Church (1989) / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Church (1989) / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Lotte's father, Herman, was abusive to his daughter, sheltering her from what he sees as a Crapsack World.
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The Church (1989) / int_b4754f84	type	The Worm That Walks
The Church (1989) / int_b4754f84	comment	The Worm That Walks: The ghosts of the slain villagers form an apparition made from a mass of writhing mud-covered naked bodies.
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The Church (1989) / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
The Church (1989) / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: First off, there's the Teutonic Knights, who were shown to be superstitious and utterly ruthless, killing unarmed villagers who don't do anything to fight back, even burying one of their own men amongst the corpses of the villagers. It's later revealed that they killed the architect that built the Church because they saw him as an alchemist. Second, there's the bishop, who wants the demonic plague to be unleashed upon the city, and presumably the world, which he deems as profane.
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The Church (1989) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Church (1989) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The image of the biker's naked girl friend hugging a winged snake-man is taken directly from a famous Boris Vallejo painting.
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The Church (1989) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Church (1989) / int_da53340	comment	Religious Horror: Well, for starters, it's set in a (literally and figuratively) Corrupt Church inhabited by demons.
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The Church (1989) / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
The Church (1989) / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Practically a revolving door of these. Evan, Lisa and Lotte all carry this ball but eventually the movie settles on Father Gus.
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The Church (1989) / int_f5663a6f	type	Dropped Glasses
The Church (1989) / int_f5663a6f	comment	Dropped Glasses: After Otto wakes up FrÃ¤ulein BrÃ¼ckner to tell her that it is a quarter past midnight and her watch is two hours behind, her glasses slip off and drop to the ground. As she seaches for her dropped glasses, Otto decides to pull a cruel prank on her by taking them away from her since she's Blind Without 'Em. Later, Otto guides FrÃ¤ulein to her glasses and claims that "they found" them. She tells Otto that he is such a good boy, but just as she finds them and places them back on her face so that she can see again, it's revealed to be a setup for her death as Hermann impales her neck with a metal fence and her glasses drop to the ground again after she dies.
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The Church (1989) / int_f85354eb	type	Attempted Rape
The Church (1989) / int_f85354eb	comment	Attempted Rape: Possessed!Evan tries to rape Lisa, although he succeeds later on.
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The Church (1989) / int_fc33ff16	type	One-Winged Angel
The Church (1989) / int_fc33ff16	comment	One-Winged Angel: Some of the possessed take a more demonic form.
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