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In 1964, in the woods surrounding the small village Nioba, a woman is
brutally raped by someone who's not quite human.
17 years later: Michael McCleary (Paul Clemens), always a perfectly
healthy 17-years old, has suddenly fallen gravely ill, & his father
Eli (Ronny Cox) has come to terms with the fact that he might not be the
boy's real ather after all, but it was the progeny of above mentioned
rape. So he & his wife Caroline (Bibi Besch) go back to Nioba to find
out about the boy's real father ... & stumble upon a terrible secret
that only slowly unravels before them.
Meanwhile, Michael has gone to nioba on his own, as well, , finds an
abandoned hut in the woods ... & gets possessed by something or
someone (yes, it's his real father) who makes him brutally & gorily
kill th members of the Curven-family. But between all the killings he
still finds time to fall in love with Amanda (Katherine Moffat), curiously
enough also one of the Curvens ...
Meanwhile, investigations of the murders are conducted by the local
sheriff (L.Q.Jones) & curiously enough Michael's father Eli, who isn't
a law-enfordcer or anything even remotely resembling a law enforcer. Noone
suspects Michael though, but he pleads Amanda to leave the village so he
can't kill her, & pleads his parents & the local doctor
(R.G.Armstrong) to kill him when he feels his condition worsening ....
& worsening it does, because suddenly he turns into a demon, &
goes on a killing spree, killing all of the Curvens (& some other
villagers as well), safe for amanda - who has made the getaway Michael has
asked her for but was met with an accident on her way out of nioba - &
the local judge (Don Gordon), who asks the police for protetion ... but
Eli, who for no reason at all is in charge, refuses to help unless the
judge comes clean. So the judge tells the story of one of his relatives
who caught his wife with another man & as a consequence shot his wife
& chained the man up in the cellar & there fed him human flesh
(why ?) for years ... & all his relatives like the judge, the
mortician (Luke Askew) & the newspaper editor (Logan Ramsey) helped
him to hush everythng up & supplied him with human flesh. Eventually
the man got out though & raped Caroline. He has since died of course,
but now Michael is here to exact his (real) father'sa revenge, & soon
he breaks into the police station, kills the judge, then makes a getaway
& on the road out of Nioba he finds Amanda, who has just woken up from
her car accident (?), & he rapes her.
Eventually though, Eli's & the sheriff's posse catch up withthe
demon/boy, & ultimately he engages in a fight with his own
(foster)father, & seems to win, too, when his mother blows his head
off.
The end.
But wait until the son out of Michael's rapeing Amanda turns 17 in 1998
...
Badly scripted monstermovie that blends teenage romance (yawn) with a
murder mystery & all-out horrors - but is remarkably bad at that.
Somehow the componennts just fail to click, the demon Michael turns into
makes no sense at all n the murder mystery, the murder mystery is pretty
predictable from the start & the teenage romance subplot is an
old-fashioned (but not in the good way) love story by the numbers.
Furthermore all the characters seriously lack dimension, while the film
lacks any real tension (partly tue to the fact that all those killed are
total pricks, so who cares, really).
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