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For his sister Nina's funeral, actor Mark (Greg Braddock) returns to
his hometown, and soon enough he has doubts that everything really was
suicide, as the official version goes. His suspicion's are soon confirmed
by Lt Scott, who investigates the case, and has stumbled over a few too
many things that won't fit with the suicide theory - like why was the
victim totally bloodless when she was found ?
Horror film fans will of course know the answer by now, because she was
bitten by a vampire and is now a vampire herself. In this film, the
vampire is creepy former catholic priest Daken (Ray Miles), who soon
enough orders Nina the vampire to kill all her family - so soon enough,
Mark's aunt and her maid are killed as well, and Mark has to stay for
another funeral.
During Mark's investigations, he meets and falls in love with Jean, an
old friend, and the two of them soon figure the mystery had to do with the
old church, where Nina did much of her research for her new book on
Satanism lately ... and who do you think they meet there, priest Daken.
Eventually, Mark tells Lt Scott about Daken, and Scott soon enough
finds out that the only priest Daken in this area has died 150 years ago.
Lt Scott decides to pay the old church a visit on his own ... and is
promptly overcome and killed by Daken and his vampires. Eventually, even
Jean is vampirized.
In the end, Mark wants to face Daken head on, but soon has to realize
Daken and his vampires are more than he can handle. But before he can make
his getaway, Mark learns about Daken's plans: Daken want to use him and
his sister Nina to procreate the Antichrist ...
With much luck, Mark can make it out of the church and drive off in his
car ... but soon enough he has a fatal car-accident ...
In the end, Mark, horribly mutilated and covered in blood, is back at
the old church and Daken weds him to his sister ... seems they are going
to be parents after all ...
Director Nick Philips was more at home in trippy erotica than the
horror genre, and Satan's Black Wedding proves that creating a
shocker really wasn't his forte. The script is both formulaic and badly
written, the actors seem rather wooden and not at all at ease with
dialogue (Philips' erotic features more often than not featured no
dialogue as such but only voice-over narration), and the whole affair is a
tad dull at times. That said however, Philips' genuine talent to create a
weird atmosphere out of almost nothing shines through in this film
nevertheless, so Satan's Black Wedding does have an eerie mood to
it that other (very) low budget horrofilms from the 1970's simply lack.
And for that alone, the film is worthwhile.
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