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Fear No Evil

  • 1981
  • R
  • 1h 39m
IMDb RATING
4.7/10
1.9K
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Fear No Evil (1981)
Horror

High school student turns out to be personification of Lucifer. Two arch angels in human form (as women) take him on.High school student turns out to be personification of Lucifer. Two arch angels in human form (as women) take him on.High school student turns out to be personification of Lucifer. Two arch angels in human form (as women) take him on.

  • Director
    • Frank LaLoggia
  • Writer
    • Frank LaLoggia
  • Stars
    • Stefan Arngrim
    • Elizabeth Hoffman
    • Kathleen Rowe McAllen
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.7/10
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    • Director
      • Frank LaLoggia
    • Writer
      • Frank LaLoggia
    • Stars
      • Stefan Arngrim
      • Elizabeth Hoffman
      • Kathleen Rowe McAllen
    • 59User reviews
    • 33Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 win total

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    Stefan Arngrim
    Stefan Arngrim
    • Andrew Williams
    Elizabeth Hoffman
    Elizabeth Hoffman
    • Mikhail…
    Kathleen Rowe McAllen
    • Gabrielle…
    Frank Birney
    Frank Birney
    • Father Daly
    Daniel Eden
    • Tony
    John Holland
    John Holland
    • Rafael…
    Barry Cooper
    • Mr. Williams
    Alice Sachs
    • Mrs. Williams
    Paul Haber
    Paul Haber
    • Mark
    Roslyn Gugino
    • Marie
    Richard Jay Silverthorn
    • Lucifer
    Marianne Simpson
    • Brenda
    • (as Mari Anne Simpson)
    Joyce Bumpus
    • Susan
    Patricia Decillis
    • Bette
    Chris DeVincentis
    • Richard
    Malcolm Hegge
    • Tommy
    Robert Kuhn
    • Steve
    Don O'Neil
    • Mr. Altman
    • Director
      • Frank LaLoggia
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    6aloysius_predato

    Not as bad as all that... Decent horror flick with a few common flaws.

    As far as horror movies go, this one is above average (definitely not warranting less than four). Yeah, there were some drawbacks. Some scenes were a bit drawn out and others were completely irrelevant. What was up with that homoerotic male shower? That was over the top and pretty much as gratuitous as most female shower scenes. Lucifer's character shows flashes, but never really seems inherently evil as you would think. It's clear that he knows who he is from the start, but the role is written as if he's going through the puberty of devilhood. If Julie/Gabriel had been required to be nude, I would have given this a 10. Sadly, her clothes stayed on. The gym teacher overacts with a hilarity of epic proportions.
    Poseidon-3

    Make No Sense

    In the spring of 1981, an acquaintance of a first year film student took a Super 8 movie camera to a rural community and asked people on the spot to pretend that they're in a creepy, demonic horror movie. No...That's not actually what happened, but it may as well have been. Director-writer-composer-actor LaLoggia (and the guy is no Clint Eastwood or even Kevin Costner!) cooked up this cheap-looking, over-ambitious, pretentious, badly written and acted, illogical, senseless mess. There are two prologues to the film. One is a fairly creepy, but ultimately silly battle between a priest and Lucifer. The second is a godawful christening with ludicrous effects and acting. Years later, Arngrim (scary for all the wrong reasons) is a (26-year-old) high school student. He's an effeminate, brilliant outcast who alternates between haughty arrogance and quivering fear. (The performance as seen makes no sense at all.) His high school (full of mid-twenties bad actors) is a template for idiocy. Students mouth off to an inane degree, smoke pot on the grounds, sneak off to boiler rooms for sex and blare music from their convertibles (does anyone in the film have a hard top car?) Chief offender Eden plays a Vinnie Barbarino wannabee with gapped teeth and jeans that give too much away. He slaps his girlfriend and picks on Arngrim. However, the best scene in the film comes when he taunts Arngrim sexually in the locker room shower to impress his friends. He finds himself in a violent liplock he can't break away from. (One thing the film has going for it is a dose of male nudity, some of it frontal.) Meanwhile, Hoffman (who thinks she's in a good movie....she's wrong) is an archangel reincarnated who is bent on destroying Arngrim. She teams with another of her kind, young Rowe McAllen (in a comatose performance that dictated that she would never again appear in a feature film.) Rowe McAllen deservedly joins the legion of other film actors who got billed as, "Introducing..." and were scarcely heard from again. It all comes down to a battle between good and evil which happens to occur on the night of a big, tacky play about the crucifixion of Jesus. These final scenes are interesting only because the action in them breaks the tedium of the previous hour. Some of the make-up is effective and a few moments are funny (intentionally?? A guy say to his girlfriend, "You know I wouldn't let another creep put his hands on you" just as a zombiefied hand reaches for her ankle.) However, like the rest of the film, the lighting, acting, effects, and direction are all horrible. The video box spends half it's copy touting the soundtrack....not a good sign that the film itself will be an good. The songs are cleverly used, but hard to hear at times and only used in snippets mostly. Camp highlight: A militant gym teacher bellows and screams his head off inappropriately and eventually kills a student with a dodge ball!!!! Hilarious.
    4Maciste_Brother

    Ambitious first movie that's very murky

    FEAR NO EVIL was the first movie directed by Frank LaLoggia, who was in his early 20s when he made it. This alone should be reason enough to overlook the film's many faults, certainly when you consider that the story is ambitious, to say the least. And because of this, I actually give props to the film because it's not the all-out disaster everyone says it is. For a first film, it's at times surprisingly good. But the story and direction are, nonetheless, extremely murky. Some scenes are dreadful, like the shot of the front of the house which shows the passage of time and we see the house getting more dilapidated by the second. When the scene ends, the house looks like a tornado hit it but when we see inside the house, everything looks fine. Huh?!?! Moments like these, plus the unknown cast, who at times look like they're acting in a high school theater production, don't help much to create a solid, focused production. The ending was good but you saw it coming a mile away.

    I don't understand why this movie is so despised. It's probably due to the shower scene. Fan boys can't take moments like this, which are, oddly enough for a horror movie, too shocking for them. Oh the irony!

    In the end, FEAR NO EVIL is an adequate first movie made in the early 1980s. Like I already said above, it's not the worst horror movie ever made like so many have claimed it to be (see PLEDGE NIGHT!). But the director's ambitions exceeded his inexperience and the film's low budget.
    horrorbargainbin

    a huge mess, you gotta see it

    I can't believe I've never heard of this before. Got it at the comic book show today. I'm remind of a better satanic school kid movie called 'Evilspeak'. Get that one if you can, but if you wind up with 'Fear no Evil' you will be entertained and surprised. During a showing of a Passion Play the crowd begins to bleed. Yes, there is quite a bit of religious matter in this movie. Angels in human form versus the devil. That is not all though. There are high school teens up to their 80's activities (having sex). Also, naked boys for an odd scene with a violent kiss. This movie is more homoerotic than 'Jeepers Creepers 2'! In the final scene you can see the devil boy's genitals if you pay close attention. I don't know why!?! Then, there are light shows and I expected the beams to come out of the screen in 3-D! Punk soundtrack with the Rezillos, Sex Pistols, Ramones, and Talking Heads.
    brandonsites1981

    *1/2 out of 4.

    Young high school misfit discovers he is the antichrist and gets revenge on his cruel classmates while fighting off two arch angels in human form. Good premise is well plotted, but some over the top acting, laughable special effects, and a disappointing finale ruin it. Good soundtrack though. Rated R; Graphic Nudity, Adult Themes, Violence, and Profanity.

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    • Trivia
      Richard Jay Silverthorn, who plays Lucifer in the film, also did the makeup work on the film. Later Silverthorn would also write a published novelization of Fear No Evil.
    • Goofs
      After the stigmata catastrophe, attendees are seen scrambling over fences to get away, even though there's a gap in the fence big enough to drive a mac truck through--or at least a police car, which does.
    • Quotes

      Tony: [to Andrew] So, if you're not gonna gimme a date tonight, won't you at least lemme have a kiss, huh? Come on, 'kay? Come on baby, gimme a kiss man.

      Other Boys: [encouraging him] Yeah, Tony, come on!

      Tony: Come on baby, gimme a kiss man.

      [forces his mouth on Andrew's, whose disgust and anger supernaturally transform the liplock into an act of slow torture, as Tony writhes desperately, but is powerless to pull apart]

    • Connections
      Featured in Sneak Previews: Halloween II, Priest of Love, Chanel Solitaire, The Watcher in the Woods (1981)
    • Soundtracks
      Hey Joe
      Written by Patti Smith (as Smith) and Billy Roberts (as Roberts)

      Performed by Patti Smith

      © 1977 Linda Music Corp. ASCAP/Third Store Music BMI

      (P) 1977 Sire Records, Inc.

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    • Release date
      • January 16, 1981 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Luzifer
    • Filming locations
      • Spry Middle School - Webster, New York, USA(school)
    • Production company
      • LaLoggia Productions
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    • Budget
      • $840,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 39 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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