October Challenge Day 24
Well, this was a little strange and uncomfortable. Let's talk about the curious:
This is the Dean Koontz story of a single mother, trying to protect her son from a cult who thinks he's the antichrist.
This is such a bonkers story, and wildly scary for practical reasons. The idea of a cult randomly targeting your young child as someone who must be killed: BONKERS
It doesn't even need additional thriller aspects to this - but thrillers are still coming!
Now, a PI is hired to protect this family and things get ugly quick. This cult will stop at nothing (Still Scary). Why ... why were the police never involved? I don't know.
This is absolutely an early '90s thriller, with guns ablazin' and all. Now, I have not read the book this movie is based on, but I suspect the book is much better. This one struggles but still it's interesting and entertaining for a weekend afternoon fling.
**** I typed all that up when I was about halfway through the film. Here are my thoughts at the end of the film ****
WELL WELL WELL
I actually had a fast one pulled on me here. Yes, it's a little boring and silly but the end was legit a wild surprise for me.
Maybe it was because I was mending jeans at the time I started this film, content to experience this movie as the whimsy '90s thing it is - when out of nowhere things got really really interesting and I put the mending project down.
I'm surprised I didn't watch this growing up - I would have Ate It Up and been in a trance about the bats in particular.
So good job, little sleeper! You got one on me! I was impressed. My prior thoughts still stand though.
I watched this film on Tubi or use the Find It! Watch It! links on Horror Habit's side bar to see where else you can find this sneaky little thriller.
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