Frank LaLoggia burst onto the eighties
horror scene with “Fear No Evil”. Then
he disappeared until almost a decade later and then disappeared again. That doesn’t NECESSARILY mean that this will
be a bad movie. Maybe it’s so good he
just never thought he could top it.
Hmmm… maybe not. Or maybe. Well, let’s find out. Or maybe not. Or maybe.
[...]
[Narrator talks about God and Lucifer and
angels and shit.]
Lovelock: God looks like Santa Claus.
[Priest in a rowboat paddles to an island
castle.]
Starkwell: Priest looks like Kelsey
Grammer. Except old.
[Priest walks through a gauntlet of hanging
dead things, including a naked guy.]
Lovelock: Is the priest staring at his
junk?
[Starkwell resisted the obvious joke... then a Possessed girl falls from the ceiling,
priest clubs her head in.]
Starkwell: Wait… what…
[Priest chases some shirtless guy with long
teeth and huge sideburns who keeps growling at him.]
Lovelock: Is Lucifer humping that tree?
[Lucifer turns into a young girl, and then
back to a middle aged man, then the priest impales him.]
Starkwell: What was with the young girl?
Why… ?
[Opening credits roll… this is gonna be one nutty
ride.]
[...]
After making fun of the bad overdubbing for
a minute, Starkwell and Lovelock settle in, ready to watch, and subsequently
ridicule, the film. We find ourselves
back in modern times and are following a family as they bring their newborn for
his baptism.
[...]
[They baptize the baby, blood starts
shooting everywhere.]
Lovelock: That’s why I won’t baptize my
kid…
Starkwell: Yeah that’s why.
Lovelock: On a side note, why did they cast
two old fogies to play the parents of the newborns? They’re like seventy-five!
[...]
Anyways, they seem to hate their demon
baby, as the demon baby Andrew starts tearing them apart! Then we flash forward eighteen years and
Andrew is all grown up and somehow they’ve remained married. And they haven't killed the kid.
[...]
[Andrew turns himself invisible and walks
down to the dinner table, the parents are all surprised that he is sitting
there. They didn’t see him come down.]
Lovelock: Well, the kid seems pretty evil.
[Husband gets in a fight with his wife over
the birthday cake they just dropped. He
punches his wife in the face and then an iron falls on her head.]
Starkwell: Wait, so… is she dead?
Lovelock: The parents don’t need much help
from Demon Baby to be fucking horrible.
[Cut to Andrew’s high school class.]
Lovelock: Is that the Boomtown Rats
playing? TELL ME WHY! I don’t like Mondayssssss…
Starkwell: I’ll tell you what I don’t like.
[...]
Starkwell: The movie. I don’t like the movie.
[...]
I can’t keep up with them anymore. There is just so much SHIT going on
here. This is one eclectic, messy and
schizophrenic cinematic experience so far.
[...]
[Student pulls something out of his pants
zipper and uses it to open a car door, and then he drives away in the stolen
car?]
Lovelock: The window was open. Why would he
need that tool from his crotch? That CROTCH TOOL, if you will.
[Just one example of how DUMB this shit
is. Then the bad boy from class Tony
slaps his girlfriend INCREDIBLY hard and it looked real. This was immediately after he banged her in
the boiler room.]
[...]
Starkwell and Lovelock seem as
confused. I think that a bunch of the
characters are reincarnations of angels.
But, they seem to know who they are?
Or they seem to not know who they are?
But no one knows that Andrew is Lucifer?
Honestly, I’m not entirely sure.
I think the Kelsey Grammer priest is/was their neighbor’s brother? In a previous life? Andrew seems to know that he is Lucifer. If he is Lucifer, that is.
[...]
[After gym class, all the guys hang out naked
in the shower and bad boy Tony decides to mess with Andrew by… kissing him… Did
I mention that they are all in the shower?
Naked?]
Starkwell: So… much… full male frontal…
Lovelock: This is making me more confused.
Starkwell: Naked men kissing is arousing
unknown confusing feelings deep within you?
Lovelock: No, I mean, I don’t understand
the point of that scene.
Starkwell: Tony’s gay? Lucifer is gay?
Lovelock: Anti-gay agendas are bullshit. Fuck this fucking movie.
[...]
Sometime after dreaming that Andrew sexed
on her briefly and then scratched her, Girl wakes up and sees that the scratch
is REAL. More importantly, though, she
had a poster of Brian May on her wall, which is way awesome.
[...]
Lovelock: Totally underrated as a guitarist.
[...]
[Kids play Dodgeball, coach throws ball at
kid, Andrew makes it speed up, and kid’s insides explode and he dies.]
Lovelock: That’s why I never played
dodgeball.
Starkwell: That’s why?
Lovelock:
I was always picked last. Stupid
bullies.
[...]
Now it starts getting even more confusing. I think Kelsey Grammer Priest is inside of
Dream Girl now. When it comes right down
to it, though, nothing has actually happened in the first hour. And where are Andrew’s parents? Are they dead now, or… ?
[...]
[Andrew kills a dog, it looks real.]
Starkwell: I’m done. Fuck this shit.
[I don’t blame him.]
[...]
All throughout, the music has been as all
over the place as the plot. It jumps
from shitty early punk to bad pop to badly orchestrated bullshit. Finally, after a super over acted monologue
where he’s shaking and waving his arms like he’s singing a showtune, Andrew
starts raising the dead and we get some zombies. They growl and pretty much look like they
have oatmeal all over their faces.
[...]
Lovelock: Better than nothing I guess.
[The whole town is gathered to watch the
Passion Play.]
Lovelock: At least they’re all in one
place. Maybe we’ll get some decent
carnage.
[...]
Some of the teens venture to the castle and the
zombies start eating them. Meanwhile,
the Passion Play, magically turns real and the actor playing Jesus is full
crucified and blood starts shooting all over everybody. Also Andrew’s Dad blows his wife’s brains out
for some reason. Tony opens his shirt
and has breasts. Then Andrew shows up
and Tony stabs himself in his new breasts.
Andrew is dressed like a really gay vampire. Then he turns into a full demon and Dream
Girl melts him with her magic staff in a whirlwind of bad special effects and
lazy writing. Sounds bad? You don’t even know. YOU CAN'T IMAGINE.
Oh, guys, you're way too harsh on this one. I had the life altering experience of seeing this at a drive-in. Perfect venue for it.
ReplyDeleteBTW, no anti-gay agenda being pushed, Lovelock. LaLoggia is gay.
I thought they were being nice... I half enjoyed the Hell out of this one... especially for how all over the map it was.
DeleteI'd love to say I KNEW that LaLoggia is gay, and purposefully had Lovelock say that to seem clueless, but alas, CONSIDER ME SCHOOLED!
I can only imagine seeing this at a Drive-In... seems meant for that sort of venue.
Cheers!
Man, I saw this movie when I was a kid IN THEATERS! My dad was nuts and took me to see movies like these all the time (saw Dawn of the Dead when I was about 4!) but yeah, that scene where they are filming a christian movie and suddenly the hammer and nails hammer the actor playing jesus to the cross, for real...that scene freaked me the hell out when I was a kid! One of the first few horror movies to truly frighten me as a kid...now it's kind of silly. I also remember that scene where the evil anti christ kid kills the other kid while playing basketball...and there's zombie too?
ReplyDeleteIt's actually kind of terrifying in a weird way. I can only imagine the trauma this would have caused had I seen it as a child.
DeleteWTF IS WITH THIS MOVIE? IM CONFUUUUUUUUUUUSED.
ReplyDeleteGAMEDOC
This movie ruled. In the worst possible way.
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