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(1992)

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3/10
Woah, huh?
BandSAboutMovies25 January 2023
Warning: Spoilers
This is not the 1976 Donald Jackson film The Demon Lover nor is it the Scott Valentine-starring My Demon Lover. Instead, this is the story of Jenny Harris (Ashlie Rhey, Body of Influence, Bikini Drive-In) and the horrible men in her life: the husband who cheats on her, the boss (Joe Estevez) who talks down to her and the incubus she conjures that kills people.

Maybe I only know that the succubus who appear in movies - Erika Blanc in The Devil's Nightmare, Megan Fox in Jennifer's Body, Karen Black in Trilogy of Terror - are uniformly gorgeous. The incubus in this - pardon me while I burst - is a balding, pot-bellied man who isn't strictly a sexual dynamo but magic being what magic is, Jenny falls madly into his arms and onto his loins.

Reasons to watch: Abundant nudity; Michelle Bauer getting her heart ripped clean out; Robert Z'Dar seeing if a mustache works for him as a cop; Lauren Hayes, who eventually played Cara Loft in the softcore Womb Raider; Gwen Summer, who like direct to video pretty girls was also on Renegade, so Lorenzo Lamas always had a bevy of beauties around him; a fake Necronomicon; the shrill noise that will make your dog lose his mind every time the incubus shows up and, as in nearly every late 80s movie, fog machine overuse.

Director Mike Tristano also directed The Flesh Merchant, Cyber Seeker, Dark Nova, Savage Season and several more films, but today is probably better known for his work as a weapons provider and master armorer. Writer T. Martin Smith also worked with him on the movies Cyber Seeker and Body Count.

Ah 1992. May your movies forever be filled with lengthy foggy lensed love scenes, neon hues, Robert Z'Dar and so, so, so much fog.
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Boobs, Bush, and Blood
ManBehindTheMask639 September 2015
"The Summoned" is a supernatural horror movie that wastes cult actors Michelle Bauer and Robert Z'Dar in nothing roles. The plot is uninteresting and follows an abused and cheated wife who performs a séance to find a dream lover. But instead she gets a demon lover, an incubus. The women are attractive and disrobe often. There's a pretty hot masturbation scene and one chick has really epic fake tits. It's not a scary flick in the slightest and the effects are cheap. The film is low budget and is loaded with heaps of gratuitous nudity. Michelle Bauer actually doesn't get nude in this flick. You get a quick flash of her topless while she's killed but nothing as hot as her fans are use to. "The Summoned" is a rare flick that is neither good, nor atrocious. It's just your average, early 90's horror flick that substitutes boobs for scares.
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1/10
This movie blows.
Java_Joe2 February 2019
I love bad movies and when you have B-movie mainstays like Robert Z'Dar, Michelle Bauer and Joe Estevez then it usually means you can at least enjoy them. But no. They're totally wasted in this movie and couldn't raise it any further.

The story is pretty simple. A woman wants a lover, she has a seance and summons one. Well surprise surprise he's really an incubus, or the male version of a succubus. Basically a demon that lays on women and gets them pregnant.

That's pretty much the movie. The special effects look laughably cheap, the dialogue is something out of a grade school play and the less said about the acting the better.

It's just boring from start to finish. Avoid this at all costs.
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1/10
It was created by the same creator of Joshua and The promised Land
omundodomatheus5 March 2021
I just hate it because it was created by the same creator of this movie,yeah.
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