Fear No Evil (1981) [Blu-ray]

Good experience

80s horror /This is real bad movie. Let me it to you like this. I saved the case . Not the movie. Really bad .

Most horror films in the 70s and early 80s were known to have simple stories. Many of these films are low on talk and plot and contained ample violence, gore, and female nudity. Special effects were also done by hand and most weren't known to have dazzling and overdone displays of multicolored lights. This film is different from many other horror flicks during that time. It begins with Lucifer being killed in the past near his castle by one of heaven's angels in human form. In the present, Satan is again reborn. This time his soul is inside a high school outcast who has got some particularly scummy classmates. Slowly, he begins to overtake this guy. This results in a series of odd events like a death by basketball, a spell that causes one of his classmates to grow breasts, and other stuff. The film is very atmospheric at times, as well as being well directed and acted. However, it is also talky in parts and slow. The movie is heavy at times in magical religious mumbo jumbo with glowing crosses, magical lights, and a really colorful multicolored light display at the end when Satan is destroyed. Some may think these parts are corny, cheesy, and overdone. I personally think that the ending light display FX is extremely well done for the time this film was made. This colorful and effective ending is actually better than many of todays CGI effects. The sex and nudity factor is another thing that's different from many other horror flicks of its time. This movie has full male nudity but only brief female topless nudity, and there's a bizarre homophobic type scene that involves a bunch of fully nude men in the shower with that Satan guy. The scene where one of his male classmates opens his shirt to reveal a pair of breasts and is then kissed by Satan also touches on homophobia, and it's unintentionally funny. Later in the film when the devil overtakes him fully, he wears a Dracula cape and summons zombies; but the zombies never do any gory gut munching scenes like in other zombie flicks, so this may disappoint some people. Aside from the zombies, He also turns an outdoor play detailing the crucifixion of Christ into a reality. These sequences towards the end are fun, but I thought there should've been more gory scenes with the zombies. The movie does have blood in it and some of these parts are good, but it doesn't have any extreme gore scenes. It concentrates more on story, atmosphere, and scenery instead of gore. The main problem is that some may think the film is too slow and talky in parts, but I thought this movie is very well made. You may want to take a look at it if you're a fan of 70s and 80s horror. Just don't expect a fast paced film.The quality is excellent and the commentary is very good. There's also a nice behind the scenes extra.

I got to spend some time in the thousand islands where this movie was filmed. It was fun seeing the movie and where I had been. The scenery is simply gorgeous.The movie is a silly horror movie but I love them and will always watch them to the end.

Lucifer is reborn in modern times as Andrew Williams, a lonely teen who is rejected by his peers. Andrew lashes out against his tormentors with his newfound powers of darkness, and it is up to three warrior angels to stop his unholy reign of terror! An ambitious horror fantasy to be sure, FEAR NO EVIL unfortunately suffers from an uneven story structure and subpar acting, but that does not stop it from becoming one of the more atmospheric and evil films of the decade. At a time when the teen slasher was in the height of its popularity, FEAR NO EVIL comes as quite the surprise, combining elements of CARRIE and ROSEMARY'S BABY in equal measure. It opens and closes in a misty castle setting, where Lucifer looks to open the gates of hell using human sacrifices. Here, Laloggia drapes the sets in dangling bodies and desecrated statues for a frightening overall effect. In the thrilling climax, a live re-enactment of The Passion ends in a bloody crucifixion and the mass-murder of several audience members before legions of the undead set in on the town. The major problem with the picture is that the audience is left with no one to side with at any point. The archangel Gabrielle is introduced too late in the story to have an impact, and while Andrew is portrayed in a sympathetic light, we are not given enough time to truly bond with his character. Interestingly enough, the homoerotic undertones also lend to an alternate interpretation of the film. Andrew's budding homosexuality can be seen as a reflection of evil in the eyes of his repressive Catholic community. The scenes where he is found giving in to his dark desires can be seen as his "self-discovery," and a rejection of society's morals. For a first-time director working on an independent budget, Frank Laloggia displays a great amount of promise that would be fully realized in his next picture, LADY IN WHITE. FEAR NO EVIL, on the other hand, is a severely flawed film, but one that provides plenty of haunting imagery to drive home its supernatural terror.-Carl ManesI Like Horror Movies

I saw this movie as a teenager and it gave me the creeps. I don't understand all the bad reviews on this movie so I guess there must be a lot of agnostics and atheists out there who like horror movies. For those of us who know that the Devil is real, this movie is scary. Don't listen to these weirdos and buy this movie and watch it in the dark by yourself if you're not a sissy.

Scary back in the 80s. Had to watch just for the memories of horror classics.

The story and premise sounded really cool on paper, as it were, but man was this a nearly incomprehensible mess...Kept waiting for something to happen, but I just kept on waiting...And waiting... Nothing really scary, creepy or suspenseful ever happens and I had to struggle to try and make much sense of it all (and to stay awake!). I normally really love stuff like this and can easily forgive and overlook lower budgeted films, but this just didn't do much for me