WARNING: SPOILERS.
I was quite surprised to see this as a made for TV movie on daytime, network television. It definitely breaks the mold. You never see this kind of subject matter in this format: Satanic rituals and devil worship. When I turned it on, I expected a standard, formulaic TV movie. Instead it kept me fascinated and guessing from beginning to end. They also got all the details right regarding the rituals, paraphernalia, symbols and incantations of the coven and that a key part of their worship of Satan revolved around the seasons, fertility and sex. If you read anything about Pagan or satanic rituals, you know that a critical part of Miranda's enslavement of the hero was that she have sex with him. All this was originally from Pagan religions, which the church condemned, falsely, as satanic. Very effective, spooky and tragic. I think the most effective portrayal of horror is to show it as part of our everyday lives.
I was quite surprised to see this as a made for TV movie on daytime, network television. It definitely breaks the mold. You never see this kind of subject matter in this format: Satanic rituals and devil worship. When I turned it on, I expected a standard, formulaic TV movie. Instead it kept me fascinated and guessing from beginning to end. They also got all the details right regarding the rituals, paraphernalia, symbols and incantations of the coven and that a key part of their worship of Satan revolved around the seasons, fertility and sex. If you read anything about Pagan or satanic rituals, you know that a critical part of Miranda's enslavement of the hero was that she have sex with him. All this was originally from Pagan religions, which the church condemned, falsely, as satanic. Very effective, spooky and tragic. I think the most effective portrayal of horror is to show it as part of our everyday lives.