Don't let anyone tell you "they don't make 'em like they used to" because this cheesy, low-budget south-of-the-border monster movie is just as loopy as the ones from the Golden Age of the 50s & 60s. A lady archaeologist (and dead ringer for Sarah Palin) unleashes Beezelbub while excavating an Aztec ruin and the Vatican calls in "El Hombre" (director Sergio Goyri) to vanquish him using the Biblical seven seals and Excaliber (aka the sword in the stone) before Armageddon goes down. There's a gladiator-style battle to the death between good & evil at the end and seeing Sarah help save the world was a hoot-and-a-half. Can't say as I'd recommend it, tho.
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BandSAboutMovies11 July 2020
Warning: Spoilers
The title of this film is The Throne of Hell and madre de dios do I have a story to tell you about it. This movie is quite literally everything you want a 1994 cheaply made Mexican movie about possession to be, and by that, I mean it's packed with gore and bad taste. That's pretty much the description for nearly every movie that I love.
A group of archeologists excavating some Aztec ruins in Mexico City uncover a bizarre jar that has fumes that come out of it and before you can say Pazuzu, the main one has been possessed and begins wiping out people in all sorts of creative ways, like crucifying a woman upside down with a crown of thorns.
If you wonder, "Will they slowly take the nails out and have blood spray everywhere?" you have been watching too many Mexican horror films just like me.
A Catholic bishop figures out the solution: call for the Angel, who can walk on water and already has a demon-killing sword which may be Excalibur and the Seven Seals. Luckily, they also have a giant attache case with a gleaming gold shield, too. He's some kind of Templar Knight. The big bad turns into a rubber-suited monster and they do battle.
This movie moves slowly in points and at other times, it rewards you with scenes of priests being launched out of windows and cops exploding. There's also a solar eclipse and an earthquake, if you're into those kinds of things.
Sergio Goyri plays both the knight and directed this, so I'm kind of hoping that it was some kind of crazy passion project. Every time I was ready to check out, this movie would reward me with something off the wall.
A group of archeologists excavating some Aztec ruins in Mexico City uncover a bizarre jar that has fumes that come out of it and before you can say Pazuzu, the main one has been possessed and begins wiping out people in all sorts of creative ways, like crucifying a woman upside down with a crown of thorns.
If you wonder, "Will they slowly take the nails out and have blood spray everywhere?" you have been watching too many Mexican horror films just like me.
A Catholic bishop figures out the solution: call for the Angel, who can walk on water and already has a demon-killing sword which may be Excalibur and the Seven Seals. Luckily, they also have a giant attache case with a gleaming gold shield, too. He's some kind of Templar Knight. The big bad turns into a rubber-suited monster and they do battle.
This movie moves slowly in points and at other times, it rewards you with scenes of priests being launched out of windows and cops exploding. There's also a solar eclipse and an earthquake, if you're into those kinds of things.
Sergio Goyri plays both the knight and directed this, so I'm kind of hoping that it was some kind of crazy passion project. Every time I was ready to check out, this movie would reward me with something off the wall.
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