Hello my gore-geous
fiends and welcome to Satanic Sunday! On
this most holy days of the week, I feel it is my duty (and right horrorshow)
for me to present to you reviews of movies and such about Satan or demonic
entities/possession. I know you all didn’t
ask for this, but that’s just the kind of ghoul I am. First up for today’s reviews, we have Gregory
Widen’s 1995 film The Prophecy. I picked this flick because I generally
always find movies with Christopher Walken in them to be particularly entertaining,
and I wasn’t let down with his performance here as Gabriel, the Angel of
Death.
The premise
of the flick is that there is a second war in heaven that is not foretold in
the current editions of the Bible, where some of the angels are angry because God
gave humans souls. The angels felt that
God loved humans more because of this, Gabriel at the top of the ranks of
these. He comes to earth to find an evil
soul to use against God in this war, only Samuel gets to the soul before both
Gabriel AND Lucifer (Viggo Mortensen) and gives it to a child to hide. Gabriel wrecks havoc until he finds the soul
he seeks, picking up souls that haven’t left this world yet (but are about to)
on the way to do his bidding before they die.
This movie
isn’t particularly gory and there aren’t a lot of death scenes in it at all,
though it does have a few burning bodies, and some torture, so it’s not
completely devoid of visuals. This is
more classic good-versus-evil than slasher-style horror, but that is an
appropriate theme for a tale that is focused on the belief that God and the
Devil are real entities. There are also
some beautiful Native American ritual scenes, which seem fairly authentic and
punctuate the film with other cultural and theological points of view. The score isn’t particularly memorable,
though there were a few decent pieces sprinkled in there somewhere. That being said, the cinematography was solid
throughout – no messing about with shaky cameras or out-of-focus shots.
I
personally really enjoyed watching this movie, though I can’t really call it
‘horror’ per se…perhaps more a theological thriller? Anywho, it’s at least worth a run
through. A low body count of four deaths,
with a rarity here…there were also technically four killers in this movie as
well. I actually don’t think I’ve yet
reviewed a film with the same number of deaths as killers, so that’s pretty
wicked. Boob Count? Zero, there wasn’t
even any kissing in this movie. Cheap
Thrills? None. It took itself a bit more seriously than that. Real Chills? One or two, mostly from Walken’s
performance. Raven’s Scream Meter
Says: 4 out of 5 Screams, but this is
definitely less ‘horror’ and more ‘dark heavenly war’ style. I hope you enjoyed the review! Feel free to comment below, and of corpse
thank you for reading! Xx ~ Raven
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