 
A young witch named Diana (Heather Jacobsen) is obsessed with righting
the wrong commited by those who burned her ancestor, Moira (Syun DeVil),
alive at the stake for practicing witchcraft as her uncle Isaac (Randal Malone)
tells her about her eternal rewards by performing a resurrection so Diana
performs some sacrifices which includes a person's heart and beheading a
virgin in order to resurrect Moira from the grave as her boyfriend Caleb (Jeff
Dylan Graham) can't believe on what he sees on her evil deeds and has to
make a decision to stop her from doing more harm to others as Moira also
becomes this demonic beast and feeds on innocent human flesh and blood.
Probably one of Brain
Damage Films biggest budgets to
come on DVD which isn't saying alot but
at least some money was put into it but
it looks very video like. At the same
time the pic and sound quality is very
clear.
The film seemed fun to watch at first but
later on it becomes a real drag with
pointless dialogues and corny humor too.
It was fun to watch the demon monster
attacking even if you could tell it was
someone in a costume but they tried their
best to make it look as good as possible.
I still pass on this movie as it wasn't
for me and prefer films that aren't as
slacking either.
The acting is a
bit terrible for many of the cast members
and average with some others. Lead
actress Heather Jacobsen showed
a nice nasty girl type of an attitude but
when she tries to act menacing or killing
someone she is way off and desperately
needed improvement.
B-film scream king Jeff Dylan Graham
on the other hand showed a nice charming
attitude as her boyfriend and pulls alot
of character to his role. He is probably
the best out of everyone in the film.
Randal Malone was quite an
interesting character with his role
acting sort of like a drag queen like in
a Rocky Horror sort of
fashion and knew his timing with his dark
comedic side too. He seemed to know his
craft somewhat as an actor to this low
budgeter.
Syn Devil seemed to have the right
evil and stunning looks plaus knew to act
very wicked like too as a beautiful
witch. She was amusing to watch and
usually pulled her weight not too bad but
sometimes she needed to pick up the pace.
Not too much though.
Eric Coffin however, couldn't act
his way out of a wet paper bag and tried
so hard to portray his role. He tried way
too hard and failed miserably and behaved
very melodramatic. I pass with him.
Mary Marini was anothe terrible cast
member who just read her lines while
being on screen as the virgin in the film
showing no energy at all whatsoever.
Syn Devil has a
torn open shirt exposing her breasts
during most of her scene's as well as
fully breasted in a bed making out she's
seducing someone.
A camper is
butchered with an axe and his heart is
torn out
A woman's head is ripped off with blood
splurting out
A guy's insides are torn out and eaten
Another woman who is part of the cult is
whacked by an axe
We have some bloody stabbings here and
there.
The directing by
Rusty Nelson is extremely rusty
especially during the beginning of this
film which involved Heather Jacobsen
whacking an axe towards bit part actor as
a camper which looked very amateurish.
We spot many cheesy but fun watching
directions on the dialogues between Jacobsen
and Randal Malone as niece and
uncle about summoning up an ancestor and
other various scene's. I must admit that
it was fun to watch.
We spot a good dialogue between Jeff
Dylan Graham and Jacobsen acting
like a couple kissing etc. which looked
convincing enough.
There's a good attitude coming from Jacobsen
towards Mara Marini having a
disagreement in a college classroom along
with a flashback sequence which looked
incredibly cheesy that involved Malone
preparing a sacrifice with his supporting
actors as clergymen's played by Mitch
Toles and Gerard J. Reyes
against Syn Devil who seems to
do ok in her direction with her actions
while being tied up acting cold and evil
but however her screaming is phony when
she is lit on fire but the camera shots
looked not too bad.
We have some good shots on Jacobsen
with her supporting cult members played
by Rebecca Elizabeth Stevens, Jo-anne
Krupa and Ashika Gogna
performing a ceremony with good shots on
them with their discussions and chants
too. Then we get a good presence with Robert
O'Connor dressed as a monster with
smoke revealed and then Devil
approaching towards Jacobsen.
We have a good reaction on supporting
actor Garrett Clancy getting out
of his bed and trying to find out the
sounds he's hearing and then Jacobsen
acting aggressive towards him in his
bathroom about him being the next
sacrifice as that moment looked a bit
weak. We spot a cheesy camera shot on Devil
in bed trapping him and then an
interesting shot on O'Connor as
the demon monster attacking.
The directing with everyone at a park
looked awfully trashy mainly with
dialogues between Graham and Eric
Coffin on making a move on one of
the cult women and all their discussions
too. I wasn't impressed on the lacking of
it all.
There's a good moment with both
Jacobsen and Devil acting
nasty and evil towards Marini with
camera shots circling around them.
There's descent reactions between Graham
and Coffin drinking and almost
acting drunk but yet when they pass out
at what they see during a sacrifice it
looked amateurish.
There's a good close up shot on
supporting actor Jed Rowen loading
his rifle and preparing stuff along with
his corny dialogue between Paul
Michael Bolan about their pratice in
combat training.
There's shots on O'Connor
running in the fields after others but it
looks like someone in a costume. Don't
get me wrong as it looked like that
through his other scene's but this time
it looked very obvious.
There's a good apporach with Devil speaking
coldly towards Jacobsen in the
fields as well as putting her hand on Graham's
head hypnotising him in which he reacts
well to as well.
We have a great shot on Malone
holding a dagger and talking to a painted
picture of his ancestor preparing for a
sacrifice as well as him with Devil
outside doing his ceremony.
All in all the directing was very cheesy
and alot of times below average but some
spots were fun to watch and others a
total bore.
Believe it or not we have
some strong and fine classical music with
violing and drum beatings as well as the
odd chiming music. There's some good dark
music and drum thumping during the
closing credits which blended in nicely
all done by Lewis Schoenbrun.
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