Satanic (2006)

Director:

Dan Golden

Writers:

Dan Golden (additional dialogue)
Ben Powell (writer)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Hell's halfway house

Plot:

After a car crash, the teenager Michelle has the face completely destroyed and amnesia. In the hospital...

Plot Keywords:

Female Nudity | Supernatural | Female Rear Nudity | Beautiful Woman | Bare Breasts

Cast

Annie Sorell	...	Michelle
Jeffrey Combs	...	Detective Joyner
Angus Scrimm	...	Dr. Barbary
James Russo	...	Eddie
Brett Erickson	...	Larry
Eliza Swenson	...	Dalia
Brian Burnett	...	Dutch
Diane Ayala Goldner	...	Jackie
Rick Dean	...	Bisson
Alicia Lorén		(as Alicia Loren)
Lauren Emmel	...	Kayla
George Tovar	...	Father
Michael Gaglio	...	Cliff (as Mike Gaglio)
Matteo Indelicato	...	Mike
Priscilla Jones	...	Father's Girlfriend

Also Known As:

Demon Board (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for horror violence, language, some sexuality/nudity and brief drug use.

Runtime:

USA:88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

MEB Entertainment

Movie Connections:

References Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Soundtrack:

Queen of the Night

The script's not the problem, for a change

Very uneven lowish production values hurt, but there are some good ideas in the script and the Combs and Scrimm are fine in basically not much roles,probably lured by director Dan Golden's knowing them than by the material, though both have been in worse roles in worse movies. James Russo's part is almost as "big" but as Combs but they didn't have the guts to claim he stars in the movie. However using Combs name first on the box is exploitation in the worst sense he's barely in the movie. Scrimm has a bigger but ultimately no pay off role. Movie is about OUJA board more than anything Satanic other than the credit sequence in lava-hell landscape.

So what's really bad about the movie is a slapdash editing and really crappy sound job and lousy music score that lifts a "cut to commercial" music signature bit from Charlie's Angels.

Also the principal cast is pretty bad and much post production re-dubbing of voices sounds like it was done by one actor impersonating the the cast rather poorly. And if those are the actors voices, almost impossible, but if those are then the post production sound is even worse than I'm giving it "credit" for.

The occasional crappy sets and pretty bad make-up further drag this down into the dumps. Some okay ideas from director Golden but usually defeated by one problem or another. But in the shameful hall of Lionsgate "pick up" movies this is for the most part not a total rip off, if you can overlook the sloppy editing. Sometimes shots linger just long enough to make you chuckle at a odd performance or a not so great effect, that would have been fine if it didn't linger.

Sure it's shot on video, like everything will be soon, quality varies but there is far worse looking stuff out there, but the sound really really tries to bury this one in the ground, lousy demon voices and that music score, it's like, well how can I say, bad.