Directed by and starring James Bond III from '70s TV show The Red Hand Gang, Def by Temptation is an all-black horror ruined by dreadful dialogue (much of which sounds like it was improvised?), choppy editing, zero scares and an ending that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Kadeem Hardison plays 'K', a streetwise New Yorker who meets an attractive woman (Cynthia Bond) in a bar who is, in reality, a succubus who picks up men, has sex with them and then feeds on them. Before 'K' can become lunch for the demoness, his best friend Joel (James Bond III), a minister in training, catches her eye. When 'K' realises the truth about the temptress, he teams up with an undercover government agent to try and save his pal from becoming prey.
Dreadful early '90s fashion, lots of neon and smoke, and a surfeit of tacky directorial stylings (the worst being the sex scene during which a saxophone player, silhouetted in the background, warbles a tune) all go to make this an amusing time capsule, but as a horror film it's a dud.
The aforementioned incomprehensible finale sees Hardison eaten by a television (his remains spewed out of the screen), and Joel somehow transported to the home of his mother (at least I think that's what happens), where he is confronted by his dead father (Samuel L. Jackson in a role he'd probably rather forget) before finally defeating the succubus with his glowing wooden cross.
Kadeem Hardison plays 'K', a streetwise New Yorker who meets an attractive woman (Cynthia Bond) in a bar who is, in reality, a succubus who picks up men, has sex with them and then feeds on them. Before 'K' can become lunch for the demoness, his best friend Joel (James Bond III), a minister in training, catches her eye. When 'K' realises the truth about the temptress, he teams up with an undercover government agent to try and save his pal from becoming prey.
Dreadful early '90s fashion, lots of neon and smoke, and a surfeit of tacky directorial stylings (the worst being the sex scene during which a saxophone player, silhouetted in the background, warbles a tune) all go to make this an amusing time capsule, but as a horror film it's a dud.
The aforementioned incomprehensible finale sees Hardison eaten by a television (his remains spewed out of the screen), and Joel somehow transported to the home of his mother (at least I think that's what happens), where he is confronted by his dead father (Samuel L. Jackson in a role he'd probably rather forget) before finally defeating the succubus with his glowing wooden cross.