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Video & Raftage Productions/Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.........Richard Jeffries</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Richard Jeffries & Nico Mastorakis</B></div> <div> <B>Music............Jerry Moseley</B></div> <div> <B>Producers........Nico Mastorakis & Donald Langdon</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....John D. Schofield</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects by Yannis Samiotis</B></div> <div> <B>Make-up by Argyro Kouropolis</B></div> <div> <B>Monster created by Vince Jeffords                                 </B></div> <div> <B>                            </B></div> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae</B></div> <div> <B>Frye............James Earl Jones (Coming to America, Field of Dreams)</B></div> <div> <B>Nereus..........Jose Ferrer (The Being, Bloody Birthday, The Sentinal)</B></div> <div> <B>Sister Anna.....Lila Kedrova (Some Girls, Testament, Zorba the Greek)</B></div> <div> <B>Sherry..........Mary-Louise Weller (The Evil, Forced Vengeance)</B></div> <div> <B>Neil............Martin Kove (The Karate Kid, Future Shock, Rambo)</B></div> <div> <B>Barbara.........Lydia Cornell (Too Close for Comfort-TV)</B></div> <div> <B>Madeline........Deborah Shelton (Blind Vision, Body Double, Nemesis)</B></div> <div> <B>Sister Elena....Sofia Seirli</B></div> <div> <B>Lethe's Mother..Despina Tomazani</B></div> <div> <B>Lethe...........Rania Photiou</B></div> <div> <B>Dionysis........Spyros Papafrantziz</B></div> <div> <B>Virgin..........Irini Tripkou</B></div> <div> <B>Vikki...........Annabel Schofield (Solar Crisis)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Critique: The narrator at the beginning is good for a puzzlement if you yourself happen to make sense. He certainly does not. Nowhere in the history of social anthropology is a description of man's "primeval urge to give new life to an ancient ritual" (virgin sacrifice). Director's flying cat. Poor James Earl Jones doesn't really have much to work with here and ends up more of a Captain Quint than an Othello. Likewise, the attack on Babs is right out of Jaws, but effective. The script is the main weakness of this almost good pre-Christian evil tale reminiscent of Rawhead Rex. "Stupid bitch" twice? Director x wisely keeps the monster shots to a minimum to avoid embarrassment. The fine cast has to battle with other inconsistencies like the whale song that accompanies the trouble. What whales? The combination of Greek mythology and the pre-Greek Mythology monster in struggle with the official Eastern Orthodoxy of the islander creates a nice shock when push comes to shove. Pay attention to the names of the characters Dionysus, Lethe Nerius, etc. They don't make a lot of sense as employed but any allusion in a horror movie is an improvement. The Shakespeare references are a total loss except that Jones is of African descent. Never boring and quick enough (82 Min) to leave you without anger. Deborah Shelton who plays Madeline wrote the lyrics to and sings the catchy end song as the credits roll.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Plot Summary</B><B>: Centuries after the last ritual virgin sacrifice at sea, a strangely upbeat American couple Sherry and Neal Greis arrives via boat at the island of Cinnaron looking for the man's sister, Madeline, but receive a cool reception from the islanders and their Mayor, Nereus. It's been four months since the Greis family has heard from Madeline. The mayor suggests other islands where artists congregate. The innkeeper Dionisi serves them wine and the mayor advises them to sail with the sun. Neil has the feeling the people are lying and Madeline is on the island. The couple spies a young woman at dusk walking the rocky paths and pursue her to the home of Fry, who, quoting Othello, nearly cuts Neil's throat until Madeline informs him this is her brother. Babs tells them scuba tanks are against the law here, the locals don't appreciate it when things are taken from their land. Fry, like Madeline, is an amateur archeologist. As Sherry and Neil make love, a boat quietly passes. Fry and Barbara are off on a secret expedition to find an underwater treasure moved offshore from the hilltop by an earthquake. Inside a cave fry has strung lights and prepares plastic explosives and ignites to Othello: and then put out the light" but his explosion fails to blow the gate and succeeds in waking the entire island. Madeline meanwhile is plagued by dreams of the ritual sacrifice, a smiling nun and and a monster in the water. </B></div> <div> <B>FRy laughs as Sherry tries to connect with Madeline who is a bit insane. She gives her a bottle of outrageously expensive perfume with which Madeline anoints herself followed by an erotic dance in a in her usual trance-like state. The entire party goes for a ride in Neil's boat, but despite the expensive depth finder they strike something slimy and crack a propeller. When they return, the mayor tells them no more boating, a girl who went swimming this morning is missing. At the cloister a nun tells Madeline that Sister Ana would like to see her. The villagers blame Neil for the missing girl. Madeline has found an icon beneath an icon. Layer one showed St Michael with the slain dragon. Layer two shows St. Michael being slain by a dragon, evil overcoming good. There is yet a third very old layer says Madeline and she wants to date the wood of the icon 1521 BC. Sister Ana thinks Madeline should eat holy wafers. The angry villagers watch Babs swim topless until she is pulled beneath the surface in a whirlpool of red.</B></div> <div> <B>Fry is interrupted in his drinking by the screaming villagers who say a shark attacked Babs. A search discovers the village woman drowned but no sign of Barbara but soon pieces of her body, a severed head and foot wash up on shore. The entire village attends the double funeral.</B></div> <div> <B>which the mayor interrupts to place a coin in the caskets of the women so that Charon will ferry the women across the river Styxx. As Sherry and Neil scan the surface for Fry, he is in the caverns armed with a spear-gun. This time he hears grumbling from the direction of the gate. Despite Sherry's protests, Neil dons his scuba gear and looks for Fry, who threatens to kill him out of anger at his destroyed gear. He rails at Neil's entire sick family, crazy virgin Maddy and spoiled rich boy Neil. Finally he tells Neil that Madeline discovered the cavern and advises Neil to get out before he too like his sister falls prey to the strange effect of the cavern. Neil heads for the cloister to get Madeline and leave but Sister Ana tells him to leave. He has brought nothing but trouble to their sacred ground with his modern contraptions. As the search for Madeline continues village boys play out the ancient ritual with a laughing village girl whom they paint according to tradition. During their dance, the young girl falls from a cliff into the bay and Fry and her mother dive in to rescue her but fry is only able to save the girl from the monster that lurks in the bay. The Mayor tells Fry you have seen your death. As Fry in a drunken stupor attempt to explain to the Greis what he saw, Madeline is at work lifting the second Icon to reveal the third and the villagers prepare to sacrifice the same saved girl. The mayor explains that a willing sacrifice finds fulfillment and the villagers find peace. The third icon is a portrayal of the evil with an erection taking a virgin sacrifice. The mayor explains the unfortunate legend that the evil is amphibious but that the sacrifice will know she is the one and go willingly. The villagers feast while the virgin waits stoically when the bloodied sister arrives signaling Madeline is in trouble. The cloister is full of slaughtered nuns but no sign of Madeline but the third icon. Down in the cavern, an ancient ritual is about to be played out unless Fry, Sherry, and Neil can stop it.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>