A good idea, but a limited movie. Suffers from being small in terms of both storyline and budget.
A priest has twenty-four hours to stop the birth of the AntiChrist. He tries to sin along the way and be evil, though he isnt very good at it (his sinning is mainly just some petty theft, three minor assaults, and one accidental death) The milquetoast priest having to sin is a great device that the movie doesnt fully take advantage of, it could have been far more complex, like having to break the 10 Commandments, and, subsequently, funnier and sacrilegious.
He gets help from a tacky t.v psychic and a death metal druggie, the latter, for some unexplained reason, taking an instant liking to the priest.
Many of the sequences work great, such as trying to get the blood of a virgin, the invoking of the Devil, but some fall flat, like a scene in witch they have to perilously walk on the outside of a building (it definitely ISNT Hitchcok), and the finale when they face the Devil. Overall, it just isnt paced as well as Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2, Darkman, Army of Darkness, or Peter Jackson's Bad Taste and Brain Dead, and its not as slick as a Dario Argento movie (no doubt these film makers are an influence on De Iglesia). It is very fun, far too clumsy, but, in the end, completely enjoyable, just not great.
A priest has twenty-four hours to stop the birth of the AntiChrist. He tries to sin along the way and be evil, though he isnt very good at it (his sinning is mainly just some petty theft, three minor assaults, and one accidental death) The milquetoast priest having to sin is a great device that the movie doesnt fully take advantage of, it could have been far more complex, like having to break the 10 Commandments, and, subsequently, funnier and sacrilegious.
He gets help from a tacky t.v psychic and a death metal druggie, the latter, for some unexplained reason, taking an instant liking to the priest.
Many of the sequences work great, such as trying to get the blood of a virgin, the invoking of the Devil, but some fall flat, like a scene in witch they have to perilously walk on the outside of a building (it definitely ISNT Hitchcok), and the finale when they face the Devil. Overall, it just isnt paced as well as Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2, Darkman, Army of Darkness, or Peter Jackson's Bad Taste and Brain Dead, and its not as slick as a Dario Argento movie (no doubt these film makers are an influence on De Iglesia). It is very fun, far too clumsy, but, in the end, completely enjoyable, just not great.