Prime Evil
Prime Evil
R | 01 August 1988 (USA)
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Nestled in a Manhattan monastery, evil is lurking. A group of devil worshipping monks are stalking the city, looking for victims to sacrifice to the dark lord in the hope of bringing satanic rule to the world!

Reviews
StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.
FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Michael Ledo There is a group of Satanist that live in the city. Satan grants them wealth and youth for sacrificing a blood relative, of which there has been a lot of as late and always young attractive women. The film centers around Alexandra Parkman (Christine Moore) who is connected to all the missing people and victims. The dialog is corny and at times amusingly sexual. It is from the 80's and I love their hair style.Not a great film as the plot lacks complexity.Sex and nudity (Amy Brentano from "Breeders"; Ruth Collins from "Psychos in Love"; Jeanne Marie of "Young Nurses in Love"; and Miriam Zucker of "Alien Space Avenger")
peter-mackie284 Okay yes, it's not good. But if you really give it a fair shot, it had some decent ideas behind it. The motivation for the villains is acceptable, the acting ranges from horrible to surprisingly decent, and the plot isn't half bad believe it or not. I think the disappointing thing about this movie is that it could have been pretty good, not great, but good if in the hands of a capable director.Is it bad? YES, but it seems to stand out among the other exploitation schlock for some reason (granted it is exploitation schlock). I can't believe I'm writing this, but this movie begs for a remake, in an era where production companies insist on taking good nostalgic horror movies and making them mediocre, they should take a mediocre movie with decent ideas like this and make it, well, good.If you can find this, check it out, just don't pay to much to see it, and maybe you'll agree with me.
Michael_Elliott Prime Evil (1988) BOMB (out of 4) I really don't know what the hell this film is about but I'll do my best to describe the plot of this so-called horror film. Back in the ancient days, a group a wacky Catholic monks decided to start worshipping Satan but their evil plans were put on hold when the church discovered their doings. Flash forward to 1988 and a new group of monks are out looking for new women to sacrifice in the name of Satan.Man, oh man is this one incredibly bad film all around. I usually find some entertainment out of these mindless horror films but this one here left me wanting to scratch my eyes out and I was only into the film for fifteen minutes. There's obviously no talent aboard on this film and it was clearly made for those who would rent anything at their local video stores. Everything from the acting to the screenplay are downright awful and the worst part is that the director forgot to add any of the red stuff.Many of the slashers from the 1980's were badly made films but at least the director's gave us a little gore and nudity to keep things going. Sadly that doesn't happen here and apparently the budget was so low that all the death scenes are pretty much off camera. We do get a wannabe scary demon, which is the villain of the movie but this here is clearly a puppet, which appears to have fallen into some spaghetti sauce. Prime Evil certainly belongs in this collection and it's without a doubt one of the worst horror films of the decade.
Exit_Music So there I was, standing in best buy with four DVDs in my hand trying to figure out which 'Grindhouse' double feature I'd buy. I looked on the back and was interested in the story of 'Prime Evil'. Sure enough, I bought the sucker. I got home and immediately put the DVD in to start watching. The first feature film 'Don't Answer The Phone' was awesome. A pure slasher flick with loads of nudity and gore. When 'Prime Evil'started, I was pleased. But by the end of the film, I was questioning why this movie was even considered to be part of the 'Grindhouse' dvds. There's little to no blood and the story d r a g g e d on and on until the 'climatic' end. BTW, the end is ANYTHING but climatic. I ~*~LOVE~*~ cheesy b-movies, but this one was so bad, its horrible.