Nonureva Really Surprised!

GazerRise Fantastic!

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

movieman_kev A hodgepodge mess of a film that has no spark, life's and dull and most damningly wastes the talents of not one, but two horror movie mainstays. Jeffrey Combs has a minuscule part, and thus, as wasted on the movie as he is, he gets off lighter then poor Angus Scrimm who has a bigger part in this fiasco. I spent much of the film merely feeling bad for him.Michelle, disfigured from a car accident gets partial amnesia as well as a reconstructed face before going to her new life in a halfway-house where a murder lurks. The twist is so god-awful but it fits with the rest of the movie, if only in that the rest of the film is awful as well.

Paul Andrews Satanic starts as teenager Michelle (Annie Sorell) wakes up in hospital with amnesia & her face completely bandaged up, surgeon Doctor Barbary (Angus Scrimm) tells Michelle she was involved in a horrific car accident that has left her with no face, no memory of who she is or was & her father (George Tovar) dead. Barbary says to Michelle that he can recreate her face with the use of family photo's & that nobody will ever be able to tell the difference which he does with amazing success, with both her parents dead & memory loss Michelle is placed into Harmony House a halfway stop for troubled teens run by Bisson (Rick Dean) & his wife Jackie (Diane Goldner). Once there Michelle tries to regain her memory & find out who she is but terrifying nightmares & a constant feeling something is wrong means Michelle doesn't settle & when her fellow troubled teens start to turn up dead there appears to be more to Michelle & her past than everyone first thought...Sitting down to watch the very bland, mundane & generically titled Satanic last night I had never heard of it before, I didn't know what it was about & my hopes were not too hight but seeing genre favourite & fine actor Jeffrey Combs name appear during the credits peaked my interest a bit although one has to say that Satanic can be summed up quite nicely by saying Combs is the best aspect of it yet he has nothing more than a cameo that last's for no more than five minutes which he probably shot in half a day. Co-produced & directed by Dan Golden I would describe Satanic as a supernatural thriller that isn't very supernatural apart from some rubbish about a Ouija board & definitely isn't very thrilling due to it's snail like pace. I suppose whether you will like Satanic will depend on how good you find the twist ending, I must admit it did wake me up a bit & the basic concept is actually solid but like the rest of the film it's done in such a poor, cheap, lifeless & lethargic way that it doesn't have the impact that it should. The main problem with Satanic is that the first seventy odd minutes is nothing more than a really boring build-up to the twist which feels like it goes on forever, this might have worked better as a shorter, sharper thirty odd minutes Tales from the Crypt (1989 - 1996) style horror anthology episode. Look, more or less nothing happens for over an hour & then it tries to pack in a twist & becomes some sort of teen slasher in the final twenty odd minutes.Apparently this had the working title Demon Board & the whole film looks pretty cheap throughout, even the supposed halfway house just looks like an ordinary house. There's not that much horror here, there's not much gore either. There's a burnt face, someone's wrist's are slashed, a couple of dead bodies are seen with a bit of blood splatter but nothing to write home about.With a supposed budget of about $120,000 Satanic looks as low budget as it was apparently was. I would suspect that a bit of that budget was spent on a couple of familiar genre faces with Jeffrey Combs (who needs a new agent) & Angus Scrimm who is probably best know to horror fans as the Tall Man from the Phantasm series of flicks.Satanic is a rather dull, forgettable & boring film that doesn't really have anything going for it apart from a couple of cameo's from genre favourites & a reasonable twist ending that could have been the films saving grace if it had been done properly. Not good.

Mustafa Jubeh I usually look to IMDb first before watching any movie ... but even so i watched it ... thinking that it might be a good movie even that most of the comments which are saying that this is a crappy movie ... and hell ya ... it is a crappy movie for many reasons ... which I'll add one thing to the listed reasons ..what's the connection between the name of the movie and the movie itself! ... nothing there is no satanic things at all ... it's paganism, Wicca and/or witchcraft ... even the pentagram is a witchcraft pentagram not satanic pentagram .. for those who don't know the differences ... the satanic use a pentagram with two points up and the witchcraft use a pentagram with one points up-as the pentagram used in the movie

Neoporcupine This movie has it all: terrible acting, cinematography, scripting and so on. Simply painful to watch. The actors appear to be freshly from an under-funded over-acting school for over-30s who want to portray under-20s. Annie Sorell (Michelle) was particularly guilty here.Eliza Swenson obviously wants to be a great actor and apparently attempted to model her role on Angelina Jolie in Girl Interrupted. But falls miserably short, possibly because the role doesn't have much face time, but more likely a lack of talent.It was interesting to see the character "Commander Shran" from Star Trek Enterprise playing the role of detective here. Strange looking man - makes it obvious why he fits the role of blue painted alien so well. (No he isn't a blue alien here, that was his better suited role in Star Trek)There is way to much exposition; characters sitting there explaining or telling long stories when a nice little flash back or story scene would have been great. Instead we are given two mediocre unenthusiastic actors giving a recount of unnecessary detail. The editor must have been on holiday.The frights aren't frightening. The horror isn't horrible. Suspense is never built. Even the nude scenes aren't enough to save it. However this is an excellent movie for film students to see how a bad movie is made.Bleh, waste of time.