bribabylk Review of An Occasional Hell

An Occasional Hell (1996)

You get to see ALL of Steven Lang in this movie...

[10 July 2007]

... and that's about the main thing going for it, and even he has a flat butt. Seriously, the whole thing about the murder weapon being a Civil War era musket has been done to death on the mediocre detective shows filling space on the TV schedules today; and it's pretty obvious who the killer is within the first 20 minutes. The performances aren't bad; in fact they're too good for the B-grade material. Hope everyone was well paid. You should really only see the movie if you have to watch EVERYTHING with Tom Berenger, or Steven Lang, or Kari Wurher, or Valerie Golina, etc. Ellen Green from "Little Shop of Horrors" makes a very brief appearance, and it was nice to see her again - she doesn't really get the film / TV work she deserves; kind of like Celeste Holme's career, which should have been bigger than it was. I saw this on cable; maybe the DVD has some extra features that make it more worth the while.