Sunday, October 7, 2012

Revenge (1986)

Revenge, the sequel to Blood Cult, picks up right where the first movie left off, just after the killings at the dorms with a press conference on what happened.  A not overly bright reporter misses the press conference and hitches a ride with the Doc.  She says she heard that prominent men in town are part of a blood cult, not putting together that she's talking to a prominent man in town.

Stone faced Michael Hogan returns to town to pay respects to his late brother Joel who was murdered.  When Micheal visits the police station to inquire into the circumstances of the death, the deputy tells him that although the case is closed, he believes there is more to it than what is on the record.

Micheal heads out to a farm on the edge of town where the Sheriff had been investigating lights in the woods.  He discovers someone is threatening the woman who lives there, and that the Doc is trying to buy her land and won't take no for an answer.  Michael wants to talk to the Sheriff about his investigation into the possibility of occult practices in the woods near the farm, but the Sheriff is locked up in the loony bin.

While Blood Cult was slightly charming in it's ineptitude, this lacks any charm.  They actually managed to get a couple of low grade celebrities to appear, with Patrick Wayne, John Wayne's son, as the lead  Michael Hogan.  A cackling John Carradine also makes a couple of brief appearances.

Contains the classic line -  "I joined this cult for the advances and advantages that you promised me.  Not to be a party to some... murder incorporated."

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