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look at my chest

posted 18 years ago by VIsraWratS
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Here's the picture http://www.headinjurytheater.com/images/hallo%20god%20told%20me%20jared%20hindman.jpg

Bernard "I've got a crotch on my chest" Phillips, from "God Told Me To" (1976). I'm going to guess that a lot of you haven't seen this film. Here's the rundown: Random people start going on killing sprees because they heard the voice of God and it told them to kill everyone. There's a detective hunting down some psycho responsible (maybe he's psychic or something) and he ends up cornering the bad guy. Instead of the usual fight to the finish, the bad guy explains how they had the same mother who was abducted by aliens and how they're both half-aliens. That's not the scary part. The terrifying part is when the bad guy unbuttons his chest and tries to convince our hero to have sex with his chest-vagina. Apparently the "half-alien" part of the bad guy shows itself via female genitalia on his chest. Can you imagine what a great last ditch move that is? "Oh crap I'm cornered! My only hope is to convince him to have sex with my alien naughty bits!" Of course the sex doesn't happen. Just like it would happen in reality, everyone involved spontaneously combusts. Because suggesting "homosexual alien incestuous relations involving chest cavities" is the secret to making people explode.

This is all from http://www.headinjurytheater.com/strangehalloween05.htm

[–] Jinzo_Hydra 18 years ago

Hahaha... Pretty much. I just watched God Told Me To for the first time last night, and when I saw that particular scene, I immediately thought of its obvious influence on Cronenberg and his films, especially Videodrome. I remember earlier on in the film, before the fiery showdown, they quickly flashed foreshadowed cuts of the fleshy vaginal orifice on the screen... me and my friend just turned to each other and both said, "Was that a...?"

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[–] Alien_Zombie 15 years ago

Well said, Watchman

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[–] stargazer1701-1 15 years ago

GTMT was a great film I just saw it last night and I never got the impression that the ‘bad guy’ Bernard Phillips felt cornered by Lt Nicholas. I saw it as an inevitable conclusion to a police investigation. Philips (played meticulously by the inspiring Richard Lynch) offered his half brother a chance to unite and take their existence to the next level. Only in our wildest imaginations could we see what would have happened if they had conceived.

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[–] JasonIK75 8 years ago

stargazer1701-1 typed:

Philips (played meticulously by the inspiring Richard Lynch) offered his half brother a chance to unite and take their existence to the next level.

I was thinking it was like a precursor to Darth Vader telling Luke, "We can rule together."

"May the Force be with you."
"I can do anything. Is America."

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[–] amd8404 13 years ago

Yup, Rabid is what came to mind for me too. I guess the two films were probably in production around the same time (anyone know for sure?). If it's a just a coincidence that they both have torso vaginas in them, that's pretty weird.

[–] FlyingSaucersAreReal 11 years ago

"But Cohen does think God Told Me To was an influence on The X Files and Unbreakable. "

I was thinking while watching this that it would've made a good x files episode. With some of the weirder plot elements toned down.

I think it's more likely that Cohen was influenced by Cronenburg than the other way around. Like you said, he'd been doing that kind of thing for a while.

[–] catlebrity 14 years ago

I was completely confused by the film, but I don't think they were brothers. I think they had different mothers.

In addition to the chest-vagina, we also saw some sort of vagina, human or alien, on the spaceship.

And was the red stuff in the title sequence supposed to be space alien sperm?

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[–] amd8404 13 years ago

I think they had different mothers.

Yes, they had different mothers. And that's not the only thing the original post gets wrong about the plot.

[–] The_Dying_Flutchman 14 years ago

Brilliant deduction for this low rent "Rosemary's Baby" idiocy. The Pope would choke on his own buttplug and the rest of the Vatican would have to play gin rummy with Joseph Smith for eternity. And, by the way, this movie stinks.

Hell is the truth learned too late.

[–] EliotTempleton 9 years ago

And to think that Sylvia Sidney signed on for this!