This has to be the worst movie I have ever seen, and I have very little sense when it comes to watching dreck; I'll watch almost anything. This is just laughably bad. It's difficult to think of the following as "spoilers," since if you honestly care what happens in this movie, I pity you.
The list of bad details is long, but I'll try to keep it as short as possible, to spare you. Let's see.
The weak premise is that there's a book of evil witchcraftery the Devil wants back, and some cackling old coot has been hiding this book in a cave; meanwhile, the Devil has done everything he can to get it back, including hanging around the cave, waiting for the old coot to come out. But the old coot hides, until David, his Beautiful Blond Girlfriend, her cute blonde sidekick/BFF, and a dark-haired sneering guy, go into the hills on a picnic, only to find the old coot in the cave, who gives them the book.
From there on in, all Hell breaks loose, literally, as the Devil tries to get his book back. There's a pagan ring the Devil (in the guise of a park ranger, astride a beautiful, sensitive, caring-looking horse, who deserved better than to have to be in this mess) puts on right before he attempts to rape the Beautiful Tall Thin 1970s Blonde. He wouldn't bother raping the short, fat blonde, of course, since that's not how beauty works. Beauty exists to attract the Devil, who leers at the Beautiful Blonde a lot, but ignores the other blonde. I'm sorry, Other Blonde, but that's what happens to short, chubbier girls in bad movies; you get to play the other available stereotype, the plucky asexual sidekick.
Then the Devil leers at each of the four friends at least once during the course of the movie, because that's something we expect from the Devil: leering. You can prevent the Devil from leering at you, though, if you wear a pagan cross-like symbol, which has the power to avert evil for a time. But careful, because if the Devil leers at you for too long, you will be turned into one of his minions! Then you will hit your friends in the face. You can avert evil even longer if you're carrying this teeny tiny golden cross, because that has amazing abilities, small as it is, to look very large on camera when needed. "We'll be all right!" one of the characters says at one point. "We've got the cross!" If only the cross were sufficient to save them.... poor souls.
Then there are the claymation figures, one of which is pretty cool cause it's a flying red devil with claws and wings, but come on, it's claymation. Okay, I know I'm just jaded, but ... claymation looks so damned awful it's not even funny. Only Ray Harryhausen could carry it off. This stuff looks like someone's kid brother did it.
David survives, just barely, and ends up in a mental institution, and it's supposed to be eerie, I guess, that his girlfriend, who you thought was dead, isn't, and returns at the end with a sneer on her face, obviously possessed by the Devil. I guess she's coming to get the book, which someone has at this point, but I'm not sure who.
The list of bad details is long, but I'll try to keep it as short as possible, to spare you. Let's see.
The weak premise is that there's a book of evil witchcraftery the Devil wants back, and some cackling old coot has been hiding this book in a cave; meanwhile, the Devil has done everything he can to get it back, including hanging around the cave, waiting for the old coot to come out. But the old coot hides, until David, his Beautiful Blond Girlfriend, her cute blonde sidekick/BFF, and a dark-haired sneering guy, go into the hills on a picnic, only to find the old coot in the cave, who gives them the book.
From there on in, all Hell breaks loose, literally, as the Devil tries to get his book back. There's a pagan ring the Devil (in the guise of a park ranger, astride a beautiful, sensitive, caring-looking horse, who deserved better than to have to be in this mess) puts on right before he attempts to rape the Beautiful Tall Thin 1970s Blonde. He wouldn't bother raping the short, fat blonde, of course, since that's not how beauty works. Beauty exists to attract the Devil, who leers at the Beautiful Blonde a lot, but ignores the other blonde. I'm sorry, Other Blonde, but that's what happens to short, chubbier girls in bad movies; you get to play the other available stereotype, the plucky asexual sidekick.
Then the Devil leers at each of the four friends at least once during the course of the movie, because that's something we expect from the Devil: leering. You can prevent the Devil from leering at you, though, if you wear a pagan cross-like symbol, which has the power to avert evil for a time. But careful, because if the Devil leers at you for too long, you will be turned into one of his minions! Then you will hit your friends in the face. You can avert evil even longer if you're carrying this teeny tiny golden cross, because that has amazing abilities, small as it is, to look very large on camera when needed. "We'll be all right!" one of the characters says at one point. "We've got the cross!" If only the cross were sufficient to save them.... poor souls.
Then there are the claymation figures, one of which is pretty cool cause it's a flying red devil with claws and wings, but come on, it's claymation. Okay, I know I'm just jaded, but ... claymation looks so damned awful it's not even funny. Only Ray Harryhausen could carry it off. This stuff looks like someone's kid brother did it.
David survives, just barely, and ends up in a mental institution, and it's supposed to be eerie, I guess, that his girlfriend, who you thought was dead, isn't, and returns at the end with a sneer on her face, obviously possessed by the Devil. I guess she's coming to get the book, which someone has at this point, but I'm not sure who.