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DeSouza</B></div> <div> <B>Music................Jay Ferguson ("Thunder Island")</B></div> <div> <B>Producer...........Gale Ann Hurd</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....</B></div> <div> <B>Based on a Story by Andrew Fleming & Michael Dick </B></div> <div> <B>                    & P.J. Pettiette & Yuri Zeltser</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Cynthia................Jennifer Rubin (Delusion, Drop Dead Gorgeous)</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Alex Carmen...Bruce Abbott (Re-Animator, Bride of Re-Animator)</B></div> <div> <B>Harris...................Richard Lynch (Alligator II, Puppetmaster III)</B></div> <div> <B>Ralph...................Dean Cameron (Men at Work, Rockula)</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Berrisford........Harris Yulin (The Believers, The Kansas City Massacre)</B></div> <div> <B>Connie.................Susan Barnes </B></div> <div> <B>Victor...................John Scott Clough (Fast Forward)</B></div> <div> <B>Lana....................E.G. Daily (One Dark Night, PeeWee's Big Adventure)</B></div> <div> <B>Gilda....................Damita Jo Freeman</B></div> <div> <B>Ed........................Louis Giambalvo (The Ratings Game)</B></div> <div> <B>Det. Wasserman..Sy Richardson (Nocturna, Repo Man)</B></div> <div> <B>Miriam.................Susan Ruttan (LA Law TV, Eye of the Demon)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: The return of Jim Jones! The idea of an obsessed cult leader coming back to haunt the only escapee from his fascistic suicide ritual works well and the film certainly flirts with ninedom before settling for an eight after becoming too comfortable with the idea of a split evil in the theories expounded by the leaders of the two parallel groups of outcasts portrayed here. Scary Richard Lynch (What's your favorite Richard Lynch role? Puppet master 3? Remember the psycho transvestite in the "Baretta" episode?) and Dean Cameron are great as is the rest of the cast. Great special effects in the eerie fire scene and in Miriam's suicide and good production values all around. The relentless suspense and action are only partially hurt by the weak link between the notions driving the demented leaders of a cult of rationality and a cult of irrationality who feed on their respective borderline personality victims. Note that the music was composed by pop star Jay Ferguson who hit with "Thunder Island" in the late 1970's. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Cult leader Harris gathers his children at "Unity Fields" for the ultimate joining of man and woman, parent and child, humanity and Godhead. One by one the members of the sect line up as Harris pours ladles of gasoline over their heads and they say goodbye to the old world. 24 bodies and one survivor are pulled from the burning house. Harris believers saw death as just another state of being. His benediction: "If I kill you, it's because I love you." As Cynthia lies near death in the hospital. 13 years 5 months 9 days later (the record is 37 years) Cynthia awakes from her coma having been haunted the entire time by dreams of madman Harris, but she appears to have no recollection of the last few days before the fire. She has no family, thus, her psychiatrist Dr. Alex tries to help her. </B></div> <div> <B>Ralph, one of the inmates in the borderline personality group, enjoys a psychotic/neurotic identity crisis, and is suffering from violent mood swings. Cynthia opens up to the group: "If people could free themselves from their egos they could experience a unity, a oneness a love." This provocation brings Lana to speak for the first time in three weeks. Hmm. Dr. Alex is told to press on and find the missing memories. Cynthia wants to find some people like were at Unity and move out of the hospital. While on the elevator to lunch the elevator malfunctions and becomes stuck and in the flickering light, Harris appears calling Cynthia to come to them to Unity. He chastises her "You failed us all Cynthia by making us wait." Another inmate, Miriam, wants to cash in on Cynthia's story and plans are made to get her out, but Cynthia sees Harris on the elevator with Miriam who suddenly is taken by her suicidal tendencies and launches herself at a window. </B></div> <div> <B>Cynthia becomes convinced that Harris wants them all with him on the other side. Harris has taken to coming to Cynthia in burned visage. He assures her that their love will never die, urging her to come with them. He tells her not to make him take another of her friends. Cynthia sees Harris following the couple, Connie and Ed from the encounter group. The psychiatrist, Alex, keeps her from following them. They go up to the turbine and soon something's stuck up there. Gruesome parts of Connie and Ed tumble down on the workman and then sprinkled on everyone as Connie an Ed they are all through the air circulation system. The quipster, Ralph, is convinced there's no therapeutic opportunities available here. Cynthia also is ready to leave, but the psyche stops her once again. Ralph proceeds to put a knife through his hand. He puts his bodyguard to sleep with a coffee pot. Ralph drops in on Cynthia's with his gored hand. She follows him. Ralph has missed two medication sessions and he tends to get excitable, trashing medical records. Ralph comes down to the sub-basement to unwind sometimes. It's not working this time. Ralph should have stuck with his medication regime. The policeman offers that Cynthia is some kind of suicide catalyst, putting her in isolation. When Alex tries to keep her from isolation, he is let go from the clinic.  As she is taken off to isolation, superimposed is her approach to the commune house. As Alex leaves the clinic, he too looks like he's in a bit of trouble. The black seer girl come to Cynthia and says that she is not for this world though Cynthia is. She claims she warned Cynthia bin time and then proceeds to drink formaldehyde.  Alex has taken some drugs and gets in his car and runs over the head Doctor again and again. Or did he? Harris says that her importance will come to her. The patients have all been given exactly the medication that would drive them to suicide. Barrisford was the one giving the patients the wrong drugs. 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