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Directed
by:
John Carr, Phillip
Mashak, Tom McGowan, Jay
Schlossberg-Cohen &
Gregg C. Tallas
Written
by:
Philip Yordan
Starring:
Ferdy Mayne .... God
Lu Sifer .... Satan
Gabriel Whitehouse ....
Conductor
John Phillip Law ....
Harry Billings
Sharon Ratcliff .... Dr.
Fargo
Arthur M. Braham .... Dr.
Brewer
Richard Moll .... Otto /
James Hansen
Rick Barnes .... Glenn
Marshall / Newlywed
J. Martin Sellars ....
George Youngmeyer
Merideth Hayes ....
Gretta Connors
Cameron Mitchell .... The
Lieutenant
Marc Lawrence .... Mr.
Weiss / Dieter
Faith Clift .... Claire
Hansen
Robert Bristol ....
Olivier
Maurice Grandmaison ....
Papini*Images
courtesy at: www.brainsonfilm.com
Release
Date: May, 1985
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A
rock band and a bunch of teens
are partying on a locomotive as
they plan to travel to Las Vegas
but the train plans to crash
causing deaths of these people as
it is being controlled by God and
Satan as they have a dispute on
who will take over the world and
discuss tales to one another.
In
the first chapter a man named
Harry Billings (John Phillip Law)
is sent to an insane asylum but
he realises that women there are
being strapped down, raped,
tortured and then cut up into
body parts for money of what they
call treatment plans.
Second
chapter tells the tale of a man
named Glenn Marshall (Rick
Barnes) who watches an Xrated
movie starring a lady named
Gretta Connors (Merideth Hayes)
as he is convinced that he will
have her but a scumbag named
George Youngmeyer (J. Martin
Sellars) who made her famous
won't let them be together and
has a deadly plan up his sleeve
as he is involved wuith a
suicidal cult.
Third
chapter sets the tale of a woman
who is plagued by terrifying
moments on a man named Papini
(Maurice Grandmaison) as she
tries to warn others about Satan
returning to earth for a
proverbial apocalypse.
Who
will win this battle?
When I first
watched this anthology I found it
to be extremel;y bad and
difficult to understand. Well....
It's bad and difficult too
The wraparound story is quite
good though but the first chapter
was god awful I nearly threw up
but I can see where they got the
idea to do Hostle
but that film was in much better
taste.
The second chapter is very
psychotic and artsy but still
extremely twisted and evil.
The third chapter is the best
showing demonic forces and a good
plot which was the reason I
didn't bomb this flick.
There is a good message in the
end of the film that good will
always conquer over evil.
The acting by Ferdy
Mayne and Lu Sifer
as God and Satan having a dispute
is well performed and they show
great character acting to their
roles.
The
acting in the first two chapters
is bloody awful and amateurish
too.
However,
it picks up in the third chapter
as we have good performances by
the late Cameron Mitchell
with good aggression to his part
and a nicely spooked out and
disturbed performance by Faith
Clift.
The best one of them all is
Maurice Grandmaison with his over
the top performance as the
Antichrist with his devilish
expressions and actions. Being
sneaky and aggressive too.
First chapter:
A woman I bloodily stabbed by a
meatcleaver
There are various body pieces in
a laboratory but the gore looks
very fake.
Next up, a maniac has his stomach
bloodily slit and is beheaded
with blood gushing out of his
neck.
Plenty of blood too.
Second chapter:
A guys eye ball is shot out of
his head
A hippie is burnt to a crisp
after being electrocuted in a
chair
Third chapter:
An antichrist is at an operating
room table and his insides are
revealed
During the first
chapter many women are naked and
strapped down
The second chapter Merideth
Hayes has her top clothes
taken off and her breasts
exposed. She exposes herself
fully in a couple other scenes
making out in bed.
Jay
Schlossenberg-Cohen directs
the wraparound story very well
with the teenage cast
breakdancing and performing music
on the train while Ferdy
Mayne and Lu Sifer performs their
scenes together showing great
scenes with one another.
I
wouldn't hire John Carr or
even thinking about changing my
mind for the first chapter as I
almost bombed this one cause of
his crappy work in it but he
improves a tiny buit in the
second one but niot a whole lot.
However he does make some scene's
very disturbing like the suicidal
ones of the cult ceremony.
The
third chapter was directed by
three people named Tom
McGowan, Greg Tallas
and Phillip Mashak and
with all of them combined they
did well showing demonic effects
and coaching Maurice
Grandmaison on being
deceivingly evil too.
We have some cheesy
80's music titled "Everybody
But You", "I'd Have to
be Crazy" and "Both of
Us" performed by a cast
member during the wraparound
story named Joe Turano which
really sounds more entertaining.
The music used in
the film is extremely stale and
outdated.
- Available
Audio Tracks: English
(Dolby Digital 2.0
Stereo)
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