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hyped garbage

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Angels Mikhail, Gabrielle and Rafael form a holy trinity living on Earth to defeat Satan, which they do as the film begins. Of course, he is born again in the 60s and, by the time 1981 rolls around, the Antichrist is a powerful handsome devil. Nah, just kidding. He is an Ian Curtis look-a-like high school geek named Andrew (Stefan Arngrim) who is looking to resurrect his army of the dead in order to rule the world or something. Of course, the reincarnated Angels are here to stop him with their glowing beams of light.I'm not really sure where I fall on FEAR NO EVIL. It is definitely ambitious for a low budget feature and falls into the M.S.U. (Makin' Stuff Up) genre perfectly. It is almost like director Frank LaLoggia had two half finished scripts and threw them together. I would recommend it just for the dodge-ball bit (watch the hyped up coach) and the bizarre scene at the end where the film's big bully gets his comeuppance by growing boobs. WTF??? The high school scenes are really funny, like LaLoggia had no sense at all how people behaved in school. One surprising thing is the soundtrack which features The Ramones, Sex Pistols, Patti Smith, Boomtown Rats and Talking Heads. I guess back then music rights weren't outrageous like they are today.

That's pretty much how I describe this movie. I mean, for those who've seen it, who couldn't help but think of Fast Times during the high school scenes and also think of Phoebe Cates coming out of a pool during one of the scenes with 80s music playing? (Although that would've been an improvement over the nudity they had in this flick) Well, lemme give you the pros and cons of thisPros -First of all, great frickin' soundtrack! Two of the greatest punk songs ever written (Anarchy in the UK and Blitzkrieg Bop, yowza) and other 80s tunes. Now THIS is the part I miss most about 80s movies. -One female boob shot. Eh, better than nothing, right? -Nothing that will keep me awake at night, but it had a few creepy bits (I'm somehow convinced now that John Carpenter took the creepy silhouetted figure from Prince of Darkness from this flick. Ah, I still love that movie anyways) -As in every other 80s horror, great cheesy bits. I mean, death by dodgeball? Frickin' A! (Matt Stone and Trey Parker might have based a Kenny death on this movie) And the male boobs bit? That is up there with GARBAGE DAY from Silent Night Deadly Night 2 and HOW DID IT GET BURNED? from Wicker Man. Good stuff! - The Passion Play scene frickin' owned! -Zombies. Nuff saidCons -Too, too, too much male nudity. I mean, WTF? If anything that shower scene should have been completely cut from the movie. UNNECESSARY! -Is it just me or is Lucifer a pansy in this movie? What was up with his voice at the end? Ooooooooo, scary! If he is seriously like that, than we have nothing to fear at all, folks. -The ending. Where do I begin with the ending? Well, the special effects are crap! Why would Lucifer blow up in a 60's trippy effect? And not to mention the ending is the kind of ending I hate: The "That's IT?" type. I mean, what's gonna happen to the other characters? Did the dad go to jail for shooting the mom or kill himself as well? And "Gabrielle's" parents are probably still wondering what the hell happened to her. Would an archangel continue having a normal life after fulfilling their duty of slaying Lucifer or what?Overall, it's not a bad flick. I mean, 80s horror films are known for having their flaws and this is no exception. I know many people are against this idea since these types of flicks are being planned just about every day now, but I think it should be remade. Could be interesting if they got the right person to do it. But alas, if I find it in a store and it's very cheap (well, no if about the latter I would imagine) I suppose I could pick it up and watch it for some kicks and laughs

I recently picked up FEAR NO EVIL out of a bargain bin of cheap DVDs because the cover art looked vaguely familiar, but I could not recall if I'd ever actually seen the movie. After sitting thru FEAR NO EVIL last night I came to the conclusion that I must have missed it back in its heyday, because I definitely would've remembered seeing a movie this BAD!! FEAR NO EVIL is a story about Andrew, a young high school genius who also happens to be the reincarnation of the Antichrist. You'd think that having supernatural powers would make high school easier on a kid (You're getting picked on by other kids in the locker room? Make their heads explode! Why doesn't THAT ever happen in a teenage-Satan movie?), but Andrew is a rather wimpy, effeminate looking Satan-in-waiting, surrounded by the usual stock characters that populate nearly every early 80s high school horror film (the tough Vinnie Barbarino clone, the greaser girls who smoke dope, swear and meet guys in the school boiler room for "quick and dirty sex," etc.), all of whom make Andrew's daily life a living Hell (sorry, I had to say it). After a lot of seemingly unconnected scenes that show these characters going around in circles without doing much, Andrew eventually kills a dog, drinks its blood, and goes out to the creepy old castle outside of town (where his predecessor was killed by Priests back in the olden days) to accept his Satanic birthright, while two Archangels (in the form of a crazy old lady and one of Andrew's high school classmates, whom he has a crush on) prepare to destroy him; all the while, there's a local Church production of the Passion Play happening in the background. (??) If this sounds like a mess, it is. Due to absolutely wooden acting by all involved, poor editing, and shoddy script writing (to say nothing of the Atari 2600 style "Laser" special effects), we never get to know enough about ANY of these characters to really care much about what happens to them, and the few disturbing gore sequences that DO work feel like they were tacked on at the last minute to briefly wake the audience up before everything slips back into talky, pretentious oblivion. The last 20 minutes are somewhat interesting, when Andrew unleashes his army of the Undead on his high school tormentors, the guy playing Jesus in the church Passion play suddenly starts bleeding REAL blood all over the first ten rows and general chaos ensues, but even those disturbing images aren't enough to save this movie after sitting through the absolutely craptacular first hour. Especially hysterical is when the Archangels finally encounter Andrew in his full Satanic regalia, which appears to be a black evening gown and dark lipstick. He looks more like a Goth club kid than the Lord of All Evil. Trust me, the effect is more likely to invoke laughter than horror. I turned to my wife and said "That's the gayest Antichrist I've ever seen." Even Dr. Frank-N-Furter from "Rocky Horror" is more macho looking than this guy!! I could go on about the unusual amount of male nudity in FEAR NO EVIL (some of it frontal), the male-on-male kissing scenes (One of which causes a guy to grow breasts!!) or the hilariously wide-eyed, vacant performance of the girl Andrew has a crush on (seriously, was she on Valium during filming?)but I think I've wasted enough time describing this mish mash to you. Suffice it to say that the highlight of this movie for me (aside from the end credits) was when Andrew's father ordered my favorite beer (Genny Cream Ale) in a bar. Apparently FEAR NO EVIL has become a cult film over the years, but I'll be damned (sorry, I did it again) if I can see why. Avoid, avoid, avoid!!!

I actually went to a movie theater to see this movie when it came out. I must've been 13 years old or something and I hadn't seen the movie until last night, for the 1st time in over 25 years! There were really very, very few things I remembered about the movie, except that the bad guy was the Antichrist reborn. I am sorry to say that FEAR NO EVIL has NOT aged well at all. The premise is interesting: a trinity of angels/priests are sent to earth to stop the Antichrist from reigning supreme on his coming. That's as interesting as this movie gets, because the story is rendered with sub-par FX, god awful acting and extremely boring movie. You have to remember that FEAR NO EVIL came out at the height of the slasher movie craze: Friday THE 13th, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, MANIAC, PROM NIGHT, etc. so it had to compete with all this profitable (if not very interesting) movies. For bloodhounds, FEAR NO EVIL will be very tame, and the few blood scenes are so badly made you wish they were never filmed at all. I bought this DVD out of nostalgia only. Some of the movies I've seen as a kid have held up well (MANIAC, Excalibur, ALTERED STATES), but FEAR NO EVIL should have been left in oblivion. Maybe the producer is friends with the people at ANCHOR BAY. Why this trash was ever released on DVD is beyond me, while other MUCH, MUCH worthy movies (like Ken Rusell's THE DEVILS)are left to their hard-to-find VHS versions. View under your own risk!