All through the film there are some lovely touches - Sheila Keith is awesome as Meldrum's one-eyed housekeeper, threatening his infirm mother ("He's gone out again, I'm afraid… you're all alone again… with me") and simply raising one eyebrow on surveying the scene following the rosary bead strangulation. Anthony Sharp gives a good performance in his role as Father Xavier Meldrum, the priest whose actions make him a really unlikeable character, while Susan Penhaligon is decent as Jenny, the young woman who is determined to try and get away from the priest, but she knows it won’t be easy. Paced nicely with some solid kills and some standout tension despite limited resources, House of Mortal Sin features a doozy of a turn from Anthony Sharp as a obsessive murderous priest who’s just keen enough to go under the radar when it comes to investigative suspicions despite spitting out ramblings of an overbearing delusional maniac who gets his ya-ya’s off while overseeing confession. Haven’t watched this in quite a long time and it was just the late night excursion into seedy giallo-esque trash that I needed. House of Mortal Sin (also known as The Confessional and The Confessional Murders) is a 1976 British horror slasher film directed and produced by Pete Walker. It was scripted by David McGillivray from a story by Walker. [1] Its plot concerns a deranged priest who takes it upon himself to punish his parishioners for their moral transgressions. [2] Plot [ edit ]

OF MORTAL SINS ALL CATHOLICS SHOULD KNOW. A GENERAL LIST OF MORTAL SINS ALL CATHOLICS SHOULD KNOW.

So I’m scrolling through Arrow’s “leaving soon” section and a bunch of Pete Walker films are there and somehow I didn’t even realize they had been there to begin with? And this one is a film I actually didn’t even know existed! For some strange reason, I always thought this was an alternate title for House of Whipcord so I never bothered to seek it out. I’m glad I got that confusion remedied because this is a great one! Walker fails to bring any sensibility, other than the merely exploitative, to the grotesque material, this must be considered pretty irredeemable stuff, even for a horror film." ~ TV Guide [9] I ended up being quite impressed with this one; it's one of those horror movies that tries to be about something more than just scaring people." ~ Dave Sindelar, Fantastic Movie Musings & Ramblings [6] direct abortion, willed as an end or as means, as well as cooperation in it. Attached to this sin is the penalty of excommunication because, from the moment of his or her conception, the human being must be absolutely respected and protected in his integrity; Pete Walker’s gory, violent horror in which a priest becomes obsessed with a girl that confesses to him and will stop at nothing to get her. Starring Anthony Sharp and Susan Penhaligon.full knowledge (or full advertence)- one knows what he or she is doing, and its serious evil content;

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House of Mortal Sin is similar to House of Whipcord, as Walker turns his sights on a priest who takes it upon himself to cleanse people of their sins. There will be blood of course. Meldrum's relationship with his mother has echoes ofPsycho("Oh mother… I need your help so badly. The old temptations have returned…") and the scene where mum hands Vanessa a note stating simply "Help me, my son is mad" is enough to bring the house down. And as for that ending…Gods and Monsters: Son of Frankenstein (1939): Doing it for the Kids, Karloff’s Last Monster Show March 30, 2020 This commandment, which completes the preceding commandment, requires an interior attitude of respect for the property of others and forbids greed, unbridled covetousness for the goods of others, and envywhich is the sadness one experiences at the sight of another’s goods and the immoderate desire to acquire them for oneself. See Compendium 531; Catechism 2534-2540; 2551-2554

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Anthony Sharp plays the lecherous Fr. Meldrum. A sadistic, wretched, corrupt, homicidal individual who probably couldn’t have been portrayed any better than what Sharp accomplished. He is truly despicable. Unfortunately for our protagonist, Jenny (Susan Penhaligon) - destiny had it in for her. After an uncomfortable encounter at the confessional, she is subsequently harassed, intimidated and threatened with extortion. So Jenny does the right thing and comes forward accusing the priest of his immoral inclinations. And of course — no one… Grave matter is specified by the Ten Commandments, corresponding to the answer of Jesus to the rich young man: ‘Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and your mother.’ The gravity of sins is more or less great: murder is graver than theft. One must also take into account who is wronged: violence against parents is in itself graver than violence against a stranger.(Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1858).” Grave sins against chastity differ according to their object: adultery, masturbation, fornication, pornography, prostitution, rape, and homosexual actions.These sins are expressions of the vice of lust. These kinds of acts committed against the physical and moral integrity of minors become even more grave. I wanted to revisit some of Pete Walker's filmography because it's been over a decade since I've seen any of his '70s horror films and when they popped up in Arrow's "last chance" streaming section it was time to jog my memory. I may have remembered some of the movies more fondly than I should have and I blame this entirely on how much I love Sheila Keith. While I will freely admit House of Mortal Sin is the better movie, I preferred her character in Frightmare, something about her as a deranged cannibal satiating loneliness with reading tarot cards for other lonely souls while also devouring their flesh suited her more, she had fun with that role but performed…Lying(in some cases CCC 2484), false witnessand perjury(CCC 2476 ), rash judgment, detraction, calumny(CCC 2477) , adulation(CCC 2480), violation of the sacramental seal(2490) and divulgation of professional secrets(2491) Even here, there are two important caveats. On the one hand, not every violation of the Ten Commandments is a mortal sin. For instance, the person who steals a dollar is not necessarily damned. On the other hand, not every mortal sin is a direct and obvious violation of the Ten Commandments. St. Thomas Aquinas considers this objection directly in considering the sin of gluttony: “Every mortal sin is contrary to a precept of the Decalogue: and this, apparently, does not apply to gluttony.” Aquinas argues that gluttony is an indirect violation of the Third Commandment (keeping the Sabbath holy) by turning us away from holiness. That’s a strange answer, but he explains: “Mortal sins are not all directly opposed to the precepts of the Decalogue [Ten Commandments], but only those which contain injustice: because the precepts of the Decalogue pertain specially to justice and its parts.” In other words, the Ten Commandments lay out “the first principles” of the moral law; they’re not an exhaustive list of every serious sin. The right question is this: is this the kind of behavior that places something else above God or turns me away from God? If so, it’s grave matter. More broadly, the Catechism says that “grave matter is specified by the Ten Commandments” (1858), pointing to Jesus’ words to the rich young man. When the man asks him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”, Jesus answers, “You know the commandments: ‘Do not kill, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honor your father and mother’” (Mark 10:17,19). Jesus’ clear implication seems to be that those who do commit adultery, steal, etc. shall not inherit eternal life.

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When You Get Caught Between the Knife and New York City”: New York Urban Horror Films March 3, 2018 The Confessional (1975) - Pete Walker - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". Fantastic Movie Musings & Ramblings - HOUSE OF MORTAL SIN (1976)". Scifilm.org. 19 March 2009 . Retrieved 22 February 2014. Christopher Garetano The South Texas Blues Interview: How Tobe Hooper Created the Ultimate Drive-In Horror Film November 16, 2020I hadn’t watched any Pete Walker films in over ten years until tonight, and what a way to return to him with House Of Mortal Sin! It's almost as if he could see into the future, or maybe he knew what only a few people did, but this was a time well before the truth came out about the perversions which The Church…