ikeybabe I really like Lance Henriksen as an actor, so I decided to give this rather old flick a chance. And it really did not age well at all. The whole thing was super painful to watch. The whole movie was a snooze- fest. I figured there would be some big reveal at the end. That was the big hook - they each have a secret connecting them to one another. The main character said they all had a secret and you'd think these secretes would be sinister right? Well, they were pretty lame secrets. The movie was boring and the secrets were pretty basic, even for way back then. But especially for 2014. And my goodness, the flashbacks were blah...nothing too spooky. This wasn't worth my time, unfortunately. You'd be better entertained reading the dictionary.

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** Really deep and heavy stuff here about a number of persons invited to writer/philosopher Roland Levy's, Lance Heriksen, private island for a night. A night that they'll never forget since what Roland planned for them is to relive the most darkest secrets of their lives.Having gone through a series of personal tragedies, one having his pregnant wife get killed in a traffic accident, Roland traveled the world to find out what life is all about and why there's all this suffering in the world. Roland traveled from the wilds of darkest Africa to the dizzying heights of the Himalayas, on the Indian/Napla border, to the steaming jungles of the Amazon and finally, where he found the truth, on a cold and windy slope high up on the Andes. Roland has seen the truth, a truth he want's to share with his closest friends, the truth that finally set him free. Having dinner with his guests Roland had secretly, with the help of his two houseboys Jesus & Manola(Lideo Baldeon & Michael Leisen), spiked the food. As the guests start to hallucinate and go under Roland induces them to "open up" and let it all out about the dark secrets that they kept to themselves and from everyone else including those closest and dearest to them.Whatever Roland had put into the food and drinks it starts to act a lot fasted on his guests then he expected. Before you know it two of them John, David Livingston, and Michael, Douglas O'Keefe, go into cardiac arrest and shock; John with a massive heart attack and Michael after he foolishly tried to swim to safety, and die.Back at the island Michael's wife Liza, Stellina Rusich,cracks up when the truth comes out, due to Roland's revelations, about her involvement with John whom she was very upset with when she found out that he's one of the invited guests; as well as his sleazy and criminal ventures in the stock market. Joel, Christopher Shyer, who at first thought that this whole party was some kind of joke on Roland's part starts to lose his eyesight and goes into a paranoiac fit, As the ghost of his father takes over Joel's mind and starts to remind him of how he treated him in the last hours of his life. Both Joel's wife Maria, Sarah-Jane Redmound, and Anne, Stefanie Von Phetter, start to see vision of Anne's sister who killed herself and whom they, in their minds, were accountable for her death. Joel with the help of Roland gets back to normal but is shocked to find that everyone on the island, minus Roland and the busboys, are dead and ready to be buried including his wife Maria! Angered at what Roland put him, his publisher, through as well as having his wife and friends die in this crazy game that he concocted Joel has just about had it and is about to blow his brains out, with an antique gun from Roland's gun collection, that it's then that the truth is finally revealed to him! It changes his life and what he thought was his sense of reality forever! Yes Joel finds out to his great relief that his father, whom he feared and hated, was not really the man that he thought that he was and forgave Joel for all the bad things that he did, or thought that he did, to him in the last days of his life.

vincentpricesnephew When i saw this film on the video store shelf, i thought "hey, another cool horror movie with Lance Henriksen", but what i got was much more meaningful. What starts out as a mystery dinner where several guests are invented to their friend's remote mansion, turns into a psycho/dinner party. Henriksen poisons all his guests to make them all experience the enlightenment he experienced in South America. The guests start dropping like flies because they won't follow his directions, and by the end, only one guest seems to be left alive. this character we find out is Henriksen's son and as he takes him out into the early morning sunlight he tells him there really was no poison and that it was just to make then appreciate how special life really is. if you view this as a Taoist or a Buddist would, you will find yourself looking at the next dawn the same way. enjoy

raptors2 The DVD box made this one seem really good, in spite of the lack of a "name" cast (with the exception of Lance Henriksen). It started out slow and never really picked it's speed up. The curves aren't enough to keep your interest and at times, you get the impression that some of the cast isn't interested either. A couple of things never quite get explained and the ending lacks.