I'm beginning to be afraid of Michele Soavi's films. I confess that I was very disappointed with "The Church" but this film was able to be even worse. In fact, if the first one was still able to entertain me, despite its huge flaws, this film made me sleepy.
The script is based on, at the very least, naive and unrealistic premises: Miriam, a young teacher, takes to her home an elderly stranger called Moebius, she almost ran over. It turns out that he is not as fragile and docile as he appears: he is closely linked to a dangerous satanic cult, which has already killed many people and is now looking at the young woman. The film also has scenes that touch the absurd or, worse, the comic: safe boxes opened with an unusual easiness, a rabbit that likes to watch television, a blue "thing" in the water of the house, an unknown room in the basement that looks like a bathroom, but has a well in the middle and where a stork rapes the protagonist... the film has a bit of everything and ends with a kind of remake to "Rosemary's Baby".
In addition to this story that seems like a surrealist nightmare, we have the poor interpretations of the cast. As a matter of fact, I cannot say whether it is the fault of the actors or the material that was given to them to work on their characters. In any case, things did not go well: Kelly Curtis is a very weak and artificial protagonist; Mariangela Giordano is totally amateur but even worse than them is Herbert Lom, who was a real garage dummy and has a strange and artificial makeup.
Technically, the film is just as weak. Soavi's direction is amateur, the special and visual effects are notoriously fake, the atmosphere is more of a light comedy than of horror, the soundtrack is terrible. Honestly, it's one of the worst horror movies I've ever seen. It even made me want to look at it as satire, because it's so bad that it doesn't deserve to be taken seriously...
The script is based on, at the very least, naive and unrealistic premises: Miriam, a young teacher, takes to her home an elderly stranger called Moebius, she almost ran over. It turns out that he is not as fragile and docile as he appears: he is closely linked to a dangerous satanic cult, which has already killed many people and is now looking at the young woman. The film also has scenes that touch the absurd or, worse, the comic: safe boxes opened with an unusual easiness, a rabbit that likes to watch television, a blue "thing" in the water of the house, an unknown room in the basement that looks like a bathroom, but has a well in the middle and where a stork rapes the protagonist... the film has a bit of everything and ends with a kind of remake to "Rosemary's Baby".
In addition to this story that seems like a surrealist nightmare, we have the poor interpretations of the cast. As a matter of fact, I cannot say whether it is the fault of the actors or the material that was given to them to work on their characters. In any case, things did not go well: Kelly Curtis is a very weak and artificial protagonist; Mariangela Giordano is totally amateur but even worse than them is Herbert Lom, who was a real garage dummy and has a strange and artificial makeup.
Technically, the film is just as weak. Soavi's direction is amateur, the special and visual effects are notoriously fake, the atmosphere is more of a light comedy than of horror, the soundtrack is terrible. Honestly, it's one of the worst horror movies I've ever seen. It even made me want to look at it as satire, because it's so bad that it doesn't deserve to be taken seriously...