By Terry Sherwood
Writer/Director Jimmy Drain’s work is one of the purest forms of the Exploitation film with a capital ‘E ‘except for some of today’s work of Charles Band’s Full Moon Features.” With that in mind, you have the relationship-seeking hero of sorts who goes through years of life, loves and suffers pangs of regret and death all due to supernatural intervention in an oddly bashed-together series of relationship stories.
The picture opens with an ominous crawl credit explaining the significance of an all-powerful dagger. Then a ladies’ cult is introduced called the “Sisters of the Moon’ ruled by Nalum (Erika Monet). The sect is battling Christian priests for the possession of a powerful “Dagger of Destiny’ not the ‘Dial of Destiny’ for mortal ordinary men’s souls who are used in a series of stories or ‘visions.’
The first “vision” concerns Malick (Jimmy Drain) who finds himself attracted to three different women. The first is Donna (Leah Saxon) who succumbs to the vocal charms of Malick’s friend Hicks (Tony Tucci). The second is the lady bartender who has a real adoration for Malick to build a life and live a calm existence.
The third finds Malick, now known as teacher Daniel Kimmer who appeared the Jimmy Drain short film using the same title The Initiation of Professor Kimmer. His wife Jamie (Emily Absher) is hiding a secret. Kimmer has a student named Starr (Luba Bocian) who lures him to a party and tries to seduce him for his blood to be stopped by an unexpected source.
The fourth vision has Peggy (Ashe Medina,) whom the witches teach how to dance so she can use her feminine wiles on a choreographer named Jon Beedham (Caustic Scifidelic).
What follows, is a young mother (Lauren Mayhew) who is troubled by noises during the night, which her little girl (Mara Davala) claims is a man tackling the Boogie Man who is sitting on the house roof. This ‘vision’ features Horror icon Tony Todd as an intrepid priest battling encounters with a masked man.
Cobbled together yes, hobbled sometimes when you add Ouija boards, voodoo, a dance sequence in which one female pulls a muscle human hair theft, and shadowy people all packed in this odd blender of a film.
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