Night Angel

Bloody hell, this was bad!! My review should be short and sweet: this was trash. Absolute garbage!

I mean, seriously, could it have been any worse? From the opening scene I realized I was in for something utterly pathetic, and I couldn't have been more spot on! 'Night Angel' is seriously bad in every way - from the acting to the premise to the execution.

Isa Jank stars as an ancient demon, Lilith, who - as the synopsis indicates - seduces and kill men. Ok, but why? What does she has to gain from doing that? Is it just for fun? She doesn't gain any power, and it doesn't enhance her as a demon or being in any way, so what's the purpose?

This one-dimensional film has bland characters with no back story whatsoever, and no character development. It's just a bunch of ideas thrown together trying to depict all men as one track minded horny idiots. There's hardly a mentionable inciting incident, and nothing propelling the film from the second act into the third. And then there's the boring climax.

'Night Angel' doesn't explain anything and there's no character motivation. Just nothing! Please, please, please let me for get this!!!

Would I watch it again? Are you kidding me???!

After brief narration giving a bit of information about Lilith, an ancient demon transforming into seductive woman and killing horny men since the dawn of mankind, the infamous Night Angel crawls out of the hole in the ground in front of viewer's eyes. Viewer's eyes will be pleased by the fact the demon already looks like naked woman. The only thing that gives away Lilith's true identity is a disfigured hand with sharp claws. The devil woman changes the shape of the hand before she goes on her manhunt and chooses a head of well known fashion periodical as the first victim. The boss gives the mysterious beauty a lift, Lilith invites herself into his fancy house, seduces him and then slashes his throat with fingernails while rich man's little son watches in horror. She also removes heart from victim's rib cage. Soon, redaction of the magazine becomes a place of witchcraft when Lilith decides to spread evil in the printed form. Lilith first causes a fight between two men at the discotheque, one of them falls into elevator shaft, the other one is badly injured by broken glass. Lilith introduces herself as the right hand of magazine's new boss played by Karen Black and turns the whole staff into zombie-like creatures. Craig, one of the employees, doesn't like the change of magazine's style and becomes another man on Lilith's death list. He tries to defeat the demon with the help of his girlfriend and elderly black woman who knows Lilith's hideous secret... Night Angel represents a perfect example of 80's supernatural horror, packed with mechanical monster effects and latex gore.

A demon assumes the guise of a woman and becomes an editor at a fashion magazine. She lures men into her spell and then kills them. Not much of a premise and with rather poor acting, but the director makes this work. The effects have style and look rather good, the sets are creative, and the photography is inventive. The lead looks her part very well, but just can't act to save her life.

Rated R; Violence, Nudity, and Sexual Situations.

Mythical creature, Lilith, returns from some strange swamp and decides to become a fashion model because it will allow her to influence more people over to the darkside.

Night Angel isn't a movie with lofty storytelling goals. It seems to just want to entertain with a little nudity, sex, and gore and it does that just fine. Isa Andersen is appropriately alluring and sexy as the lead and it's always nice to see Karen Black even when it's in a somewhat tiny supporting role. The creature and gore effects are the real reason to see this and they don't disappoint.

OK - I have to admit it: I love old school 80's & 90's era, electro/disco music and this decadent atmosphere that you CANNOT really find in todays mystery/horror/whatever films (there are exceptions, of course).

This one isn't too dumb, really. Compared with lots of silly hollywood 'horror' this one is much much preferable. We even have enough style, music and few gore effects to get things going. And of course, as you have probably understood by now, there's an evil mistress that is trying to rule the world. And then, the final supposedly climactic ending sequence. This is quite an OK viewing, with quite pleasant & amusing characters.

No masterpiece, by no means, but should be OK for most horror fans and fans of that particular atmosphere I described above.