Watch This Movie if You Want to Have a Satanic Schoolgirl Summer
Some teenagers just want to burn it all down.
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Certain movies inspire us to live life differently. Popular movies about the military lead to a spike in enlistment numbers (even if the movie depicts negative aspects of service), more students went to school for meteorology after seeing Twister (1996) and Sideways (2004) led to a nationwide drop in the price of Merlot. You can also reverse engineer this effect and intentionally seek out movies to manifest something you specifically want to create for your life.
Want to feel cool lounging around a pool? Watch La Piscine (1969). Need some motivation to rise and grind? Try The Devil Wears Prada (2006). Want to conjure up the coolest Satanic schoolgirl vibes? There’s a movie for that too.
Don’t Deliver Us From Evil (1971) is a controversial French drama horror movie about Catholic boarding school classmates Anne and Lore (Jeanne Goupil and Catherine Wagener). The girls become best friends and spend all their time together reading dark poetry, giggling and playing malicious pranks on others. Over the summer, the girls conduct a Black Mass, asking Satan to help them become even more evil. The film culminates in a shocking and extreme act.
The most deliciously evil scene in this movie is the visually stunning sequence in which the girls conduct a Black Mass, renouncing Christianity and devoting their lives to Satan. Don’t Deliver Us From Evil is sometimes called “the French movie that was banned in France” due to its portrayal of teens embracing Satanism — but notably not due to the two lengthy scenes of adult men attempting to rape the girls. The girls’ actions are morbid and extreme, but given the backdrop of the world they live in, their rebellion is understandable.
Some viewers may recognize parallels between Don’t Deliver Us From Evil and Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures (1994). This is because both films are based on the same true crime case, the Parker–Hulme murder. The case involved two schoolgirls in New Zealand, Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, who had an obsessive friendship that resulted in the murder of Parker’s mother.
Don’t Deliver Us From Evil is unfortunately not currently included in any of the major streaming services. However, it is free on the Internet Archive and available on Blu-ray.
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