A Hell House, as you are probably aware, is a Haunted House exhibiting the fundamentalist christian idea of horror. No doubt this was the goal of straight-to-cable crudfest Tribulation (an NYPL rental for me - thanks fer nothin', public library!).
This cast is quite bizarre and puzzling, almost giving this some cult qualities... Gary Bussey, Howie Mandel, and Margot Kidder! And Nick Mancuso playing an anti-christ named Franco Macalousso (spooooky!).
I'll confess to being both fascinated by and hostile to the Left Behind mentality. You know - at the Apocalypse, all the good moral people go to heaven and do the Church Lady superior dance, while you, a disgusting secular humanist, are left to suffer earthquakes and floods and the reign of the antichrist.
However, as premises go, this had interesting ideas. An agnostic cop (Bussey) wakes up from a coma in the future where the anti-christ has come to power. Not a bad idea at all for a horror film. I'd love for someone else to run with this concept without preaching at me.
This cast is quite bizarre and puzzling, almost giving this some cult qualities... Gary Bussey, Howie Mandel, and Margot Kidder! And Nick Mancuso playing an anti-christ named Franco Macalousso (spooooky!).
I'll confess to being both fascinated by and hostile to the Left Behind mentality. You know - at the Apocalypse, all the good moral people go to heaven and do the Church Lady superior dance, while you, a disgusting secular humanist, are left to suffer earthquakes and floods and the reign of the antichrist.
However, as premises go, this had interesting ideas. An agnostic cop (Bussey) wakes up from a coma in the future where the anti-christ has come to power. Not a bad idea at all for a horror film. I'd love for someone else to run with this concept without preaching at me.
The antichrist first strikes out by having a little seance tea party in the UN boardroom or wherever, and starts psychically manipulating some poor dude who teaches a parapsychology class. While again this was executed to be annoying preaching (don't mess with the occult, kids!), I liked this image and this idea. The anti-christ tempts mankind by teaching them superpowers - again, nice idea.
So apart from lots of speechifying about accepting God while staring down a bullet from the antichrist's shock troops, we also get Mancuso and Satan himself handing out these circa 1992 virtual reality helmets which they then use to manipulate and kill their followers like Agent Smith in "The Matrix."
So apart from lots of speechifying about accepting God while staring down a bullet from the antichrist's shock troops, we also get Mancuso and Satan himself handing out these circa 1992 virtual reality helmets which they then use to manipulate and kill their followers like Agent Smith in "The Matrix."
Bad, bad bad.....
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