Clive Barker has done it again. He has once again been part of the making of a crap as hell movie. Scary just how much his movies vary between great and downright awful.
In essence this is a gutless story about an adventurous, but not-to-saintly monk chasing after two demonesses - succubi - who he unwittingly let escape. This of course entails following them through a time device, that magically takes him from 1815 to now. Equipped with a magic dagger he is out to rid the world of the scourge of lusty brain-suckers.
Not really wanting to delve into the bad I'll treat this one quickly. Acting - terrible, it was actually the most scary thing in this whole movie, with the succubi especially terrifyingly bad actresses. Plot - with more holes than Swiss cheese. Dialogue - my 8-year old niece writes better and more realistic plays.
And for some reason they made the demons of sex and lust - succubi - ugly, gross and covered with slime. Why anyone would want to pay to have sex with them (as per script) is beyond my comprehension... Succubi really should be captivatingly beautiful, even if evil.
To add to insult I have no idea why Barker thought it would be cool to have two angels from Islamic eschatology to feature as depraved sex and brain thirsty slutresses? I'm not much into political correctness, but its almost like i.e. Iran making a horror movie, where Archangel Gabriel functions as a bloodsucking vampire, who gets of on killing young boys after copulating with them...
Also... what the hell happened with the demon-baby after the finale? It just suddenly disappeared as if it was a non-issue... I was at least expecting it to jump out in the very last scene.
On the plus side: Special effects are decent and quite gross (satisfactory for the genre). Other tech credits are fine, if nothing spectacular.
In essence this is a gutless story about an adventurous, but not-to-saintly monk chasing after two demonesses - succubi - who he unwittingly let escape. This of course entails following them through a time device, that magically takes him from 1815 to now. Equipped with a magic dagger he is out to rid the world of the scourge of lusty brain-suckers.
Not really wanting to delve into the bad I'll treat this one quickly. Acting - terrible, it was actually the most scary thing in this whole movie, with the succubi especially terrifyingly bad actresses. Plot - with more holes than Swiss cheese. Dialogue - my 8-year old niece writes better and more realistic plays.
And for some reason they made the demons of sex and lust - succubi - ugly, gross and covered with slime. Why anyone would want to pay to have sex with them (as per script) is beyond my comprehension... Succubi really should be captivatingly beautiful, even if evil.
To add to insult I have no idea why Barker thought it would be cool to have two angels from Islamic eschatology to feature as depraved sex and brain thirsty slutresses? I'm not much into political correctness, but its almost like i.e. Iran making a horror movie, where Archangel Gabriel functions as a bloodsucking vampire, who gets of on killing young boys after copulating with them...
Also... what the hell happened with the demon-baby after the finale? It just suddenly disappeared as if it was a non-issue... I was at least expecting it to jump out in the very last scene.
On the plus side: Special effects are decent and quite gross (satisfactory for the genre). Other tech credits are fine, if nothing spectacular.