The Sect

Michele Soavi's delirious and surreal satanic horror follows a teacher drawn into the schemes of an evil cult.

A teacher brings an elderly gentleman into her home following a near-miss in her car, unaware that he's an elder of a satanic cult with plans to draw her into his evil, deranged schemes. Following stylish slasher StageFright and extravagant gothic fantasy The Church, director Michele Soavi switches gear with this freewheeling and surreal horror, brimming with outlandish and hallucinatory imagery.

Co-written and produced by Dario Argento, this was Soavi's final film under Argento's tutelage before striking out on his own with further horror classics like Dellamorte Dellamore. The Sect was selected for the 35th BFI London Film Festival back in 1991.