PeterBradford
The good stuff: First of all, this was shot on 16mm film, not "shot-on-video" as one reviewer said. It was released direct-to-video. In fact, it was probably one of the very early films to go straight to video back in the glory days of VHS. The actors look good. The lighting is effective. The not so good stuff: the characters are not engaging, and the pacing doesn't work. It's an 80s curio, and worth a look for that.
Woodyanders
Struggling wannabe heavy metal musician Adam (blandly played by Thomas Bern) summons lethal succubus Lily (skanky beanpole Sylvia Summers). Things turn nasty after Lily crashes a frat party being held at Adam's house and starts bumping off the various obnoxious guests.Boy, does this hysterically horrendous honey possess all the right wrong stuff to qualify as a real four-star stinkeroonie: We've got blah (non)direction by furiously prolific schlockmeister David DeCouteau, a plodding pace, static cinematography, flat acting by a lame no-name cast (only foxy 80's porn starlet Ashlynn Gere adds any spark as the spunky Pat), tacky, but juicy gore, a mechanically bouncy synthesizer score, tin-eared dialogue (favorite line: "There's a dead cat back there and it's pretty gross"), zero tension or spooky atmosphere, a generous amount of bare skin (both male and female alike), cardboard characters, a by-the-numbers formulaic script, chintzy (not so) special effects, leering soft-core sex, and a groan-inducing surprise twist ending. A real cruddy hoot.
Pretentious_crap
The movie is full of ugly women who are supposed to be hot, and nudity scenes where there aren't any female full frontals, but hairy weasel man-ass. Some of the gore is okay; there's a few scenes where a dude or two suffers genital injuries during oral sex, but the camera cuts to the dudes facial expressions of pleasure then pain, and then the chick spitting blood. Also there's a scene where a characters head is decapitated by an electric drill.The movie's about this wannabe satanist, who gives incantations to Satan while sitting at his bedside wearing his Def Leppard t-shirt, then dreams of this ugly chick who is supposed to be Satan incarnate, or a succubus. Later, this evil horse faced succubus crashes his girlfriend's-sister's lame sorority party of eight people. Most of the film the power is out.Not in the least bit entertaining. Wash your dishes instead.The VHS cover's a laugh though, it says that is was too gory for TV, that's why it went straight to video-- yeah, try to prop up that fragile ego of your's Mr. Filmmaker.
FieCrier
Really pretty boring shot-on-video horror movie ("too gory for the silver screen" boasts the distributor on the video box). A guy into heavy metal has dreams about a succubus, and he tries some kind of rituals to summon her. His sister has a party in their house, and a bunch of poorly differentiated characters arrive, and have a pretty lame party. The succubus kills people, and nobody seems to notice for a while.Except for a few exterior shots of the house, I think the entire movie took place inside the main characters' house. The deaths were generally not terribly gory or interesting, except for a death by a power drill towards the end which was pretty well done. Apart from that, you have a bunch of actors who for the most part haven't acted in anything else. Despite some female nudity early on in the movie, and that all the characters are heterosexual, this movie does seem aimed at a gay male audience. There are lots of shots of guys with their shirts off, guys wearing nothing but white jockey shorts, guys completely baring their posteriors....I would definitely recommend people not waste their time with this movie. Exceptions might be made for people who can be very forgiving of low-budget horror movies' limitations, aren't looking for anything original, have a soft spot for the 1980s, or really like director David DeCoteau's work.Towards the end, there's a piece of paper on which is typed "SUCCUBUS" but part of the word is unreadable, so only "SUC" can be read. That about sums it up.
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