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Directed by John McTiernan
Evil spirits haunt a French anthropologist and inhabit the doctor who treats him.
Evil spirits haunt a French anthropologist and inhabit the doctor who treats him.
Cast: Lesley-Anne Down, Pierce Brosnan, Anna Maria Monticelli, Adam Ant, Mary Woronov
Member Reviews
You will be haunted / by Brosnan's dire accent, / frontal nudity.
Watched again after 30+ years. Still holds up pretty well.
Even without reading the reviews posted, I expected this to be extremely boring and all around terrible. I'm going against the grain on this one by saying that I ended up really liking it. Mainly because of the way it was shot and the nostalgic feelings it conjured up from the era it was made in. The unpredictability for how it was going to turn out and the very ending overall made this worth a watch for me. And don't forget the scene where he throws the guys off the top of the building, that was both hilarious and awesome at the same time.
Oh my. No wonder the French hate the Brits. Brosnan's accent is cinematic malpractice. Not for nothing: do we have confirmation McTiernan directed this? Did someone actually witness it? Because… damn.
It's like the producers wanted to make a movie trailer of an LA biker gang getting into mischief, and later realized it actually had to be a movie. Even though they only had budget for the trailer. No matter. Toss in a couple sexy actresses, a bearded early-career Pierce Brosnan, and a very thin plot about psychic Eskimo ghosts or some shit, and away we go.