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A satanic preacher named Malcolm Graves (Michael
Des Barres) with his ghoulish creatures is about to sacrifice his baby named
Jonathan but a woman at the cult ceremony stops him.
Both of them die and
years later Jonathan (Peter Liapis) is grown up and tries to discover who his
parents were.
He moves into the same mansion where the cult ceremony
occurred with his girlfriend Rebecca (Lisa Pelikan) and suddenly becomes
posessed and becomes a part of his father hypnotising his girlfriend and his
friends as well.
He summons up the ghoulish creatures as at first they seem
to help him out but then Jonathan's father rises from the grave to take control
again and wreck havoc controlling the creatures to terrorise anyone at the
mansion.
An interesting but average cheesy 80's
horror film if you loved these types.
The ghoulies looked a little too cute
to be scary and dangerous though but you'll laugh watching them terrorise
others.
There are interesting lightning effects when any magic
happens.
The story really isn't promising by any means but it's fun to watch
if you're in the mood to watch it with friends for fun.
The acting is at an average pace for a
dated 80's horror flick.
Michael DesBarres does fine as the satanic
father of his troubled son but he overly does it alot of the
times.
Peter Liapis who played his
son is not too bad himself and tries his best to be energetic with his
role.
Lisa Pelikan also does a fine job too playing his girlfriend
having a warm but yet stern attitdue on what's going on.
A face is scarred plus a womens chest
is about to explode.
New York actor Luca Bercovici
makes his directorial debut with this one and directed many of the sequels.
He is passable in his first directorial film as he shows a neat opening
which he coaches Michael DesBarres
doing a satanic sacrifice not too bad yet it does look 80's cheese
like.
There's good shots on the
cast partying out and dancing. Doing typical fun things on their day off at
college. Yet the performances look a little weak at the same
time
Peter Liapis looked great doing a chant
outside of the house to summon up the creatures along with some storms and
there's great shots on the creatures rising from the ground, pond and other
places.
Bercovici makes sure that both Liapis and Lisa
Pelikan perform well off of one another and Liapis shows some
weird reactions towards her as if he is changing into another person.
There's
a nice setting with the cast sitting at a dinner table and suddeenly things get
weird with the ghoulies appearing there too and then Liapis performs a
dark chant summoning up his dead father as it looks powerful and almost
promising that the film will be better especially when it shows Desbarres
rising up from the grave.
However, the directing takes a wrong turn when
Desbarres tries to take over everything as it looks a little stale and
comedic when it is supposed to be dark.
Richard Band and Shirley
Walker were the composers for this one and do well with similar 80's horror
sounds for this one.
[Mike falls over while trying to
breakdance]
Mike: I think I broke my head.
Eddie: [standing over Mike] Oh,
thank God. I thought that you actually hurt yourself.
Dick: They call me Dick, but you can
call me... Dick.
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