House of Mortal Sin (The Confessional) (1975)

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British sleaze artist Pete Walker applies his characteristic sleazy, ultra-violent touch to this audacious, Catholic-bashing tale. A deranged, sex-mad priest (Anthony Sharpe) exploits the sanctity of his office as a means of harassing young women who confide their sins in his confessional, recording their confessions in order to blackmail them into doing his vile bidding. Eventually, evidence of these transgressions reaches other members of his parish (including his mother), prompting him to

R, 1 hr. 48 min.

Horror

Directed By: Pete Walker

On DVD: Feb 28, 2006

Cast

Jack Allen
Stephanie Beacham
Vanessa Welch
Kim Butcher
Valerie
Norman Eshley
Father Bernard Cutler
Mervyn Johns
Father Duggan
Sheila Keith
Miss Brabazon
Bill Kerr
Davey
Julia McCarthy
Mrs. Davey
Susan Penhaligon
Jenny Welch
Andrew Sachs
Anthony Sharp
Father Xavier Meldrum
Ivor Salter
Gravedigger
Hilda Barry
Mrs. Meldrum
Jon Yule
Stewart Bevan

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I'm so in love with Walker's FRIGHTMARE that this engaging but credibility-stretching thriller can't help but let me down a bit. Still worth a look, though.

October 4, 2007

Tony Kay

"The House of Mortal Sin" is a riproaring entertainment; intensity from Anthony Sharp (familiar as C of E cleric in "Steptoe and Son"), who treads the line between tragic and comic with true melodramatic command. Susan Penhaligon and Stephanie Beacham provide distinctively 1970s charms. A fine piece of British genre

December 20, 2009