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Directed
by:
Phillip Marshak, Tom
McGowan & Gregg C.
Tallas
Written
by:
Philip Yordan
Starring:
Cameron Mitchell .... Lt.
Sterne
Marc Lawrence ....
Abraham Weiss / Dieter
Faith Clift .... Claire
Hansen
Richard Moll.... James
Hanson
Maurice Grandmaison ....
Papini
Robert Bristol ....
Olivier
Release
Date: Supposed
Theatrical: 1980
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A
catholic named Claire Higginson
(Faith Clift) meets up with a
playboy named Olivier (Robert
Bristol) who has a strange power
over women and seemingly ageless
too.
She also asks Olivier if there is
a God and a Devil as her husband
named James (Richard Moll) wrote
a novel titled God Is Dead as he
has no beliefs.
Olivier tells her they both exist
and an estranged man named Papini
(Maurice Grandmaison) tries to
protect them both as he tries to
warn them that Satan is after
them and the apocolypse is about
to occur.
Meanwhile, a police detective
named Lt. Sterne (Cameron
Mitchell) tries to find out who
this Olivier is as he was
involved with Hitler in Germany
decades ago and has been
responsible for alot of deaths as
he can't seem to put the pieces
together.
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This was
an extremely low budget feature
and it looks like a total bore
but eventually it gets a little
better and very dark too.
This film can easily be
considered an Omen ripoff but
it's an adult who is an
antichrist and not a child.
There are some fun touches in the
film and years later it was used
as a chapter for a horror
anthology titled Night
Train to Terror.
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Faith
Clift cannot act her way out
of a wet paper bag by any means
as she just speaks her lines and
shows very little expressions on
her face but she does do well at
being spooked out.
Richard Moll who played
her husband was pretty bad as
well but not as bad as she was as
at least he put a bit of energy
into his character.
Cult horror icon Cameron
Mitchell is a little better
but on an average level as a
detective. However, he was often
cast in badly acted films but he
shows good aggression regardless.
Robert Bristol is the
best out of them all as he plays
a perfect antichrist with his
cold sounding voice and evil
expressions.
Olivier is at an
operating room table and his
insides are revealed.
Directed
by three people??? Oh cmon one
should do.
Well they show some interesting
moments especially with Bristol's
role with his lovely women at the
disco bar and having the evil
expressions on his face and a
devilish smile too.
There's also great cheesy
hallucinations with the demonic
forces too that surrounds Clift
and Moll's character's
too.
Also a nice scene with Grandmaison's
role being pulled into the
ocean.
There is some
boring piano playing but there
are some good synthesizer
performances surrounding Bristol's
scene's as well as outdated
classical music during the
operating room towards the end
all by Steve Yeaman and Casey
Young.
There are a couple
of cheesy disco songs at the
local disco bar performed by Billy
Kirkland with his songs
"I'm Your Lover" and
"Only a Fool"
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