Night
Angel
1990
Director- Dominique Othenin-Girard
Cast- Isa Jank, Linden Ashby, Debra Feuer, Helen Martin,
Karen Black, Doug Jones
Lilith
(Isa Jank) picks off one staff member at a time, seducing them and either
leading them to their death or turning them into her brainwashed slaves. She
has taken particular interest in one of the staff members, Craig (Linden Ashby who
would later play Johnny Cage in Mortal
Kombat), and she visits him with repeated disturbing nightmares. Personally
that seems like a bad tactic if you are trying to seduce someone, but some
people are into pain, so you never know.
Craig
has his eye on Kirstie, a young jewelry designer (Debra Feuer, who starred
opposite of Willam Defoe in the outstanding 80s crime film, To Live and Die in L.A.) Her love is the only thing anchoring Craig to reality and
thus preventing him from falling under Lilith’s spell.
The
movie is obviously B-grade but a few things elevate it above the ranks of the
forgotten. It has some innovative scenes including a really good nightmare
where Craig descends into Hell and we see people with heads grown together, a
woman with faces on her breasts, torture etc. It is really helped by its cast.
In addition to the leads it has Karen Black (House of a 1000 Corpses) and a young Doug Jones, who looked just as
skinny and awkward in 1990. Fourteen years before he would star in Hellboy and a quarter of century before
the Academy Award winning The Shape of
Water, he was spouting such soul
searching dialogue as “look at the rib melons on this babe” and the even deeper
“tickle her tonsils with my meat puppet.” Well, everyone’s got to start
somewhere.
Even if
you haven’t seen the movie, horror fans of the video store era will probably recognize
the box art which was one the more noticeable VHS box covers of its day.
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