Movie Overview: For Being a Foolish Horror Comedy, Satanic Panic Is Shockingly Boring
The Pitch: Sam (Hayley Griffith) isn’t having night time. On her first shift as a pizza supply employee, she’s gifted an expired coupon to Applebee’s, requested to urinate on a person’s face, and sufferer to some secondhand racism. In a last-ditch effort to earn some fuel cash, she volunteers to make a supply to a mansion within the posh suburb of Mill Basin. Sadly for her, she nonetheless doesn’t get tipped and her Vespa runs out of fuel within the driveway of the offending non-tippers.
Exasperated, Sam barges into the mansion to chastise the house owners for his or her privilege and inadvertently interrupts a cult of Satanists making ready to conjure the “triple-faced fuck-monster of remorseless intent and illuminator of toxic information” Baphomet. Led by Danica (Rebecca Romijn), the cult rapidly realizes that Sam is a virgin and intends to sacrifice her as a way to beginning the demon.
After escaping the attractive arms of Danica’s husband Samuel (Jerry O’Connell) Sam groups up with Danica’s rebellious daughter Judi (Ruby Modine) as a way to survive the night time.
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Although Hayley does get just a few jabs in that can be cathartic to anybody who has ever labored within the service trade, Hendrix doesn’t appear too involved in making any severe statements in regards to the struggles of the poor and the privileges of the wealthy. All of which might be advantageous if the movie have been constantly humorous, however it’s not.
That being mentioned, Satanic Panic does an admirable job of creating and constructing the heightened world of its Satanists. The foundations are defined organically and effectively, which is vital in a movie as nutty as this one. One explicit sequence during which a voodoo ritual is being carried out on Judi efficiently merges gross-out gags with an vital expository second for Sam. Sadly, it’s the one second within the movie that carries any emotional weight.
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