The Eighteenth Angel

• Director: William Bindley
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Horror
• Movie Type: Supernatural Horror
• Themes: Religious Zealotry, Mad Scientists, Woman In Jeopardy
• Main Cast: Rachael Leigh Cook, Wendy Crewson, Christopher McDonald, Maximilian Schell, Stanley Tucci
• Release Year: 1997
• Country: US
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• MPAA Rating: R

Plot

This ominous apocalypse thriller sports a fairly ambitious but ultimately confusing plot involving a prophecy which proclaims that the return of Satan will be precipitated by the arrival of eighteen physically-perfect angelic beings. In order to fulfill the prophecy, a secret sect of Etruscan monks conspire with an obsessed geneticist to artificially manufacture the requisite number of perfect specimens, with the only setback being the lack of a suitably beautiful face for each of the eighteen clones. To complete the equation, the monks devise a plan by which they can obtain faces from unsuspecting "donors." The last of the potential candidates is lovely model Rachael Leigh Cook who, after a bizarre series of events beginning with her mother's death, finds herself in the monks' evil clutches. Decent production design gives some class to this direct-to-video production, together with good performances and a pervasive sense of doom. The film ultimately falls short of cult-classic status due to an excessive amount of irrelevant and frequently unresolved subplots -- particularly one involving the family cat. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide

Cast

Wendy Crewson; Christopher McDonald; Stanley Tucci; Maximilian Schell; Rachael Leigh Cook

Credit

William Bindley - Director, Jeff Eden Fair - Composer (Music Score), Douglas Curtis - Producer, William Hart - Producer, David Seltzer - Screenwriter, Rachel Griffiths - Script Supervisor

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