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Overall Rating : 3/10
Directed By : Nick Phillips
Greg Braddock
Ray Miles
Lisa Milano
Supplied By : Retro-Shock-O-Rama Cinema
Film Reviewed By : Rick Blalock
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| PLOT Mark travels to California to unravel the mystery surrounding his sister's death. He learns that she had been writing a novel about satanic worship and spent a good deal of time at an abandoned church outside of town. When Mark begins seeing her in the company of a creepy-looking priest, he goes to the old church and learns that Satan himself has chosen him and his sister to be wed in unholy matrimony...and become the proud vampire parents of the Antichrist. |
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| THE REVIEW SATAN'S BLACK WEDDING is a part of the newly released Nick Philips trilogy, along with CRIMINALLY INSANE and CRIMINALLY INSANE 2. In SATAN'S BLACK WEDDING, Mark recently returning from Rome comes to California for his sister Nina's funeral, helmed by a really freaky looking priest, but all is presumed fine. After the funeral Mark returns to his sister's house to stay where he is then met by detectives who think that Nina's death was far more than a suicide. Mark would soon learn that the demonic characters that his author sister hat written about are real and that satan has ordered Nina to come back and as part of her covenant, slaughter her whole family. Mark soon also learns that his whole family is stricken with an evil curse. Out of the 3 movies in this trilogy set, this movie comes in second but not by much. SATAN'S BLACK WEDDING starts out sort of entertaining but then deteriorates as it goes along, slowing down in pace and in plot. However this was actually more entertaining that CRIMINALLY INSANE 2 but nowhere near as good as CRIMINALLY INSANE 2. I take it that this film was meant to be off the wall and it sure is, as some of it is quite ridiculous, and I say this in the nicest way imaginable, The Acting her, is really bad but you got a lot of that in 70's exploitation, really cheesy. The one performance I remember the most is the priest, he was really freaky and in my opinion looks a little like Tom Savini. All in all this film is poorly staged, with shaky camera work, and the story, is quite mediocre....I have seen Philips do much better than this. |
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| GORE
METER 4/10 Not as gory as Philips' other film CRIMINALLY INSANE but it is there, again not realistic by any means |
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| MUSICAL
SCORE 2/10 70's horror films( well some of them) all seem to have similar scores, which adds nothing new to the film. |
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| SPECIAL
FEATURES RATING 4/10 An interview with Nick Millard(Philips) about SATAN'S BLACK WEDDING is included. |
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| OVERALL
IMPRESSION OF THE FILM Overall, I wasn't quite entertained, and got bored rather quickly.. I am not a big, huge fan of religious movies, they just bore me to death. But if you are infact into them, who knows? You might like it. But do definitely get this set for the great CRIMINALLY INSANE flick! |
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