Pentagramm – Die Macht des Bösen (1990)

Pentagramm – Die Macht des Bösen: Directed by Robert Resnikoff. With Lou Diamond Phillips, Tracy Griffith, Jeff Kober, Mykelti Williamson. A dedicated L.A. police detective and a female psychic must stop a demonic serial killer who was given the powers of resurrection, teleportation and possession.

“You can only see a movie for the first time once and so I have to admit that THE FIRST POWER worked on me the first time I saw it in theaters. It moved with such lightning speed that I didnu0026#39;t have time to ponder its snowballing silliness. The director, Robert Resnikoff, knows how to construct an action film–the cinematography is first rate and the editing superb– he just doesnu0026#39;t know when to stop. There are car chases, horse and buggy chases, foot chases and innumerable shoot-outs, and at one point the killer even brandishes a ceiling fan as a rather laughable weapon and all the action movie huggery-muggery sits rather uneasily on top of the supernatural elements.Lou Diamond Philips, though a tad young-looking to be such a seasoned detective, gives a competent performance. Jeff Kober is obviously having fun playing the killer and it shows; he has a toothy menace thatu0026#39;s suitably creepy. Probably the best thing going for THE FIRST POWER is a truly unnerving and effective soundtrack from Stewart Copeland. The director pulls off some nasty mind-trips on the character played by Philips, one where he wakes to find his apartment seemingly covered in blood and another in a confessional booth when he goes to get some answers from a local priest.”