Prime Evil (1988)

Review by Mari Lynne Rupp



This is one of those movies that are so bad, it's good. Made by Robert Findlay in 1988, it revolves around satanic monks masquerading as priests in a catholic church. It includes all the necessary cliches, human sacrifice, orgies, blood-letting and pacts with the devil. Anton LaVey would have been very proud.

Starring Christine Moore, Mavis Harris, Max Jacob and George Krause and William Beckwith as the charismatic Thomas Seaton, leader of the evil monks and Alexandra (Christine Moore) as the intended virgin sacrifice to keep the group young looking and rich.

What kept my attention was not the watery plot, half-hearted acting or child-abuse sub-plot but the horrid '80's cliches, the drug-users, the yuppies, the upstarts and Wall Street still being a good place to work. The misogyny is still quite rife and little things that would normally be shuddered at today being high points of humour back then.

Of course finding out Roberta FIndlay started out in the blue movie business, this shouldn't surprise me in the least. Made for a great trip down the memory lane that is the cheap, non-budget 80's horror though.

I'd give it five out of ten, because it's still an amusing popcorn movie if you're half fractured from cheap liquor.