A teenager finds an old-fashioned pair of glasses with a Latin inscription by the wayside and discovers that when he puts them on, he can suddenly perceive demons and, moreover, this effect only occurs when he puts on the glasses, not when anybody else does.
What sounds like a potentially intriguing premise for a supernatural horror film is utterly ruined by insisting on making this film a vehicle for heavy-handed Christian propaganda.
The problems already start with the overall structure, where the story is framed as a reminiscence of youth of the now-older protagonist to his teenage son, a structure which serves no discernable dramatic purpose. Presumably, this was meant to lend the story and its lesson (to accept Jesus into your heart) an air of authority, but that is undermined by the sometimes inane exchange between father and son.
Then we have the protagonist not just being able to see the demons when he puts on the glasses, but hearing and possibly feeling them, too! How is that for religious logic!
Early on, the film argues that even from a science standpoint, there are things which we may not be able to see, such as microorganisms and atoms, but which nonetheless exist. This is true, as far as it goes, but if we want to draw an analogy between these and demons to lend the authority of science to the idea that the latter exist, we cannot just stop half-way: microbes and atoms are not the kind of things which can be perceived by only one person under the same conditions. In fact, the more reasonable conclusion is that if only one person sees things that others fail to perceive under the same condition, then that person is probably hallucinating.
While early on the film drops hints that this is "Christian Horror", the proselytizing gets ever more blatant and cringy. The production quality is okay for the 90s, but the script is hilariously inept, even if we set the religious stuff aside. The constant interruption of the flashbacks by the superfluous father-son exchange breaks the flow, the characters are cardboards, and the emotional climax involves an absurdly contrived situation.
The people who rated this drivel highly did not do it because of its quality but because they agree with its religious message.
