Succubus: Hell-Bent
Succubus: Hell-Bent
R | 17 April 2007 (USA)
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A beautiful demon leaves death in her wake while stalking a wealthy womanizer in contemporary Los Angeles.

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doctorsmoothlove

Disclaimer: I watched this movie on in a full screen edition released as part of a 4 pack by Screen Media. Try online for a widescreen version if you must rent.So, the movie has an interesting title and movie poster. You would think that the movie would be filled with sexy scenes, some gore, and maybe some monster effects. That's why I bought it and you might want to watch, right? Well, we don't get any of that.What special effects there are are mostly physical and female. We never see Lilith, the titular demoness, transform. She glows and changes instantly. The crew knew it looked terrible and wisely chose to limit the times we see it occur.The film doesn't have any idea about what kind of genre it wants to be. It begins with our two spoiled bro-heroes visiting Cancun and one of them hooking up with some hottie named "Lilith." Since you've read the title, you know what Lilith is. The first third is a series of scenes featuring the two bros trying to get laid as much as possible. It's amazing how the female writer/director goes out of her way to make these guys as obnoxious as possible and how she writes them to describe all the women as sex objects. She also shows a man kissing a dead woman's body.Lilith begins to stalk the main bro and he appeals to his dad for help. Then, we are treated to an unearned "emotional" sequence for this character we care nothing about. If anything, I was cheering for Lilith to frighten him some more! Finally, what payoff we receive is a confrontation between the hero and the Succubus where he spouts some cheesy dialog and then she does and then it just ends. This part plays out like a self-aware comedy horror movie, which is weird because the film isn't like that up to this point.The movie is at least watchable. The actors are competent and the cameos are welcome. The actors are attractive. The soundtrack often seems to get in the way of some of the dialog. Not that we care. No one has anything to say. If the writer/director could have picked a tone and made less of a deliberate effort to be misogynistic and creepy this could have been recommendable. Seriously, who puts a scene where a person makes out with a corpse as a joke? That's sick!

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Scarecrow-88

Adam(Robert Mann), a skirt chasing 20 year old womanizing rich kid, whose dad is a very important businessman with political ties, chooses the wrong woman to mess around with when he takes a trip with pal, Jason(Jayson Blair) to Cancun for some beach, babes and booze..she is a succubus named Lilith(Natalie Denise Sperl) who pursues him to Los Angeles, showing up in places out of the blue, killing those closest to him, and making his life most miserable by interfering in his day-to-day activities. When his friends wind up dead around him, Adam becomes a suspect as his succubus story doesn't wash. Surfing the net, Adam finds that Lilith was created before Eve by God at the same time as Adam and whose kiss on the lips of men she seduces retrieves a bit of their lifeforce. Soon Lilith will be coming to kill Adam for good, and he seeks assistance from his powerful father Wallace(David Keith) and some unorthodox demon hunter named Sentinel(Gary Busey), but finds that perhaps there's no solving his problem.Tame, underwhelming, and yawn-inducing, do not be fooled by the film's titillating premise or box cover art. Sperl lives it up as the evil succubus making Adam's life miserable, wearing sexy costumes and speaking all seductively. But, the film's protagonist is a real prick..the kind of product of wealth plucked from the condo of MTV's Real World, partying with friends, having sex with bubble-headed chicks, spending his daddy's money, and traveling in yachts and planes living the high life...and it's hard to care whether he lives or dies. Instead of worrying about his fate, I was enjoying the sight of Adam squirming. I was actually rooting for the succubus..Adam and Jason couldn't die fast enough. The violence, like the supposed lurid premise, fails to deliver as well. The low budget also produces weak special effects. A real waste of time, that could spent on a much better film, unless you want to see Busey for a few minutes in yet another eccentric part poking fun at Adam's difficult situation. Lorenzo Lamas also has a brief part as a flight instructor who Adam works for.

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dgci-net

Sometimes, we overlook the lesser-known films.Sometimes, there's a brilliant movie lurking there. Brilliantly directed, brilliantly filmed, brilliantly acted, brilliantly scripted and scored.We find ourselves caught up in it, totally, breathless, on the edge of our seats, waiting to see what will come next.We become one with the characters, mesmerized, as they take us to places we've never even dreamed imagined. We become a true "captive audience". And we think about the film for days. We talk about it with friends.But as for this little piece of drivel? It fails on all counts. Totally predictable, acted as if by a high school drama class, and with a painful score that has nothing to do with what's on the screen, this has to be the most "brilliant" time wasters I've ever seen. Likely to be enjoyed by those who smoke illegal substances and think deep thought as the munchies kick in, it's nonetheless drivel. FF and making up your own dialog doesn't help this turkey. What little plot there is never gets resolved, and the characters, ALL of them, are as likable as a bag of dog excrement left on your front porch.IMDb doesn't offer a low enough rating. You'd be better served watching paint dry, or grass grow. Doesn't meet the standards of "Made For TV".

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remy544

Great cast, minus the leading man, with lots of potential utterly wasted. The actress who played Lillith, made the film palpable, due to her striking beauty. It appears there was adequate funding given the production values and the cast, yet the film lacked any sense of a true horror plot, nor was there enough nudity and sexuality to pass under the guise of an erotic horror film, which pervades the industry. The whole test pilot, jet sequences really added nothing to the story, and served only as a buffer, to make the film 90 minutes. Hopefully, David Keith will find some suitable and larger roles for his talent in the near future.

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