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Plot summery on IMDb all wrong

posted 18 years ago by Coventry
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Attention viewers who're interested in seeing this film and blindly follow the brief synopsis here on the title's main page:
The plot summary, written by an anonymous person, is all wrong:

A priest tapes his parishioners' confessions, then uses the tapes to blackmail them. When they can't or won't pay, he murders them. After several of the parishioners turn up dead, a housekeeper begins to have her suspicions about him.

There indeed is a priest who tapes the confessions, but only of one specific case and there's absolutely no blackmail involved. He merely is a sexually frustrated sicko. Also, his housekeeper isn't there to suspect him at all since she's messed up in the head as well.

The story follows a troubled young girl who hesitatingly goes to confession at her local church. The priest, Father Meldrum, is quite out of his mind and starts stalking the girl and even killing the so-called sinful men in her life. No matter who the girl turns to for help, Father Meldrum stays above suspicion at all times because he’s a respected man of the Church and she’s just a mentally unstable blonde.

I'd add this brief and far more accurate description myself, but I'm too lazy to go through all the necessary steps

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[–] manchester_england2004 16 years ago

Your analysis is correct - the movie is not about a priest who tapes confessions and blackmails people. The real plot of this movie is about a priest who becomes obsessed with a young girl because he is sexually frustrated. As part of that frustration he does seek to blackmail the girl (at least the priest thinks he's blackmailing the girl by threatening to reveal details about her abortion).

I have submitted a revised version of the plot summary that more closely fits the facts of the film and not the suppositions of a random IMDB user.

[–] freudified_n_funkified 15 years ago

Like the best Pete Walker films, it's about the hypocrisy of institutions, in this case the Catholic church, and how it can foster madness and fanatacism in the individual. An interesting companion piece to House of Whipcord, and to a lesser extent Frightmare (which is more focused on Walker's other theme of descended madness in the family unit), in more ways than one.

[–] Wuchak (8076) 4 months ago

there's absolutely no blackmail involved.

Yes there is: The psycho priest blackmails Jenny by threatening to tell her family members of her secret abortion, which she confessed to him privately in the confessional and he recorded it, unbeknownst to her.