This is one of those completely obscure films that I saw back in high school and managed to track down, so you're totally forgiven if you've never heard of it. For all that, it has an impressive cast and an interesting story, even if the production values are pretty low.Hugh Stanton (Christopher McDonald) is a music professor in Boston with a wife and daughter. It's totally normal until Norah (Wendy Crewson) starts putting together a story about a local diocese's ties to ancient Etruscan mythology. The priest (Maximilian Schell) is actually part of an ancient cult that is trying to bring about Satan's rule on Earth. His group has been secretly collecting beautiful children to use as vessels for Satan's spirit. As soon as he sets eyes on young Lucy (Rachel Leigh Cook), he wants her for the eighteenth victim.
I fully expect this to not be everyone's cup of tea. I love movies that explore mysticism and riff off of established religious ideology. That's just my bag, baby. Plus, her name is Lucy and you know I love that. And she's a cat person. And she's really pretty. All positive things. But not necessarily things to which you will attach the same level of interest. This film came out a couple of years before Rachel Leigh Cook got her big break in She's All That, which explains why no one has ever heard of it, and it also has Stanley Tucci in a small supporting role. If you can find it, give it a shot. I found it very enjoyable.
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