The film opens in 1955 with the birth of a daughter under dubious circumstances. The mother dies, it is a cat thing and we jump 22 years later to Jessica (Elyssa Davalos) a dress designer in San Francisco, a dead Satanic give-away, although Jessica doesn't know anything about this. It would seem the Dark Lord could simply occupy a willing person that designated someone who grows up clueless and doesn't want the gig. I don't write this stuff. Andy (Dack Rambo) runs into Jessica and falls in love in about three dates (not 10) and realizes something is wrong because of an old building has a draft and enlists the help of a couple of priests...cheaper than fixing the furnace.This was a TV pilot film for ABC in 1977 which would have had a long train of "Exocist", "Omen" and "Rosemary's Baby" type episodes without Ave Satani, Tubular Bells, or Carmina Burana. The music made the films. This film was boring as hell. Available on some multi-film discs.

This made for TV Exorcist rip off doesn't feature much of anything good: the acting is okay and Richard Lynch is always welcome as the Bad Guy, but the plot is nonsensical and the entire movie is sluggish and very boring.Jessica is a strong, single woman living in San Francisco. She meets Andy when he rear ends her car and after she screams at him like a PMSing harridan for nearly five full minutes, he begins stalking her in that cutesy, romantic way that guys did back in the 70s before restraining orders got popular. Jessica finally agrees to go out with him, despite the fact that every other guy she's ever dated has mysteriously died. This doesn't discourage Andy, who decides to marry Jessica after a whirlwind three week long romance. But Jessica has already been promised to Astaroth by the evil Richard Lynch. And she has the unfortunate ability to bring shadows and cold temperatures into a church with her. A nosy priest is murdered, a few childish looking pentacles are scrawled around and a cheap dime store hypnosis gimmick is all it takes to steal Jesica away. Why Lynch didn't just keep her with him to begin with is anyone's guess. Anyway, Lynch then decides to distract Andy with an ex-girlfriend whose daughter has been inexplicably possessed by the devil...a plot twist which serves no other purpose than to showcase a very lame exorcism scene, complete with shaking bed. Nothing is resolved, nobody wins and the movie just sort of stops with several large threads still dangling in the breeze.This is a terrible movie, which is a shame because it could have been okay. The cast is pretty decent and the acting really isn't all that bad. It's just poorly written, clumsily plotted and apparently filmed by a very depressed insomniac. Unless you're a very big fan of Lynch, or you're curious to see what Kim Cattrall was doing before writing sex books, skip this mess of a movie.

I didn't hate this as much as some of the comments here, but it's nothing to write home to mom about either.The weirdest part was the ending. It just ended! Talk about an unsatisfied feel! Upon reading up on the movie, I learned it was meant to be a pilot for a series, and I guess that dumb ending was meant to be picked up. Unfortunately, I think the writers shot themselves in the foot in that the movie and the ending was so odd, it never wound up living past its first show! Good only if you want to see a creepy, low-budget horror flick on a lonely night, and you don't mind an ending that's as weird as the VCR getting unplugged halfway through.

"Good Against Evil" is a boring little stinker that time forgot...until it was resurrected on DVD (as part of the "Fright Night" 10-movie pak). Clearly a made-for-TV production, it is so lacking in action of any sort that the best reason for viewing it is to induce sleep. Dan O'Herlihy enters far too late to redeem this dull-as-a-doornail production, doing his best Max von Sydow impression as the priest who attempts to perform an exorcism. How "Good Against Evil" flew by the radar of The Satellite of Love is beyond me.zero/10