By all that we hold dear in today's TV and Cinema this movie is completely inept.
The script is poor (though there are a few good lines), the plotting ridiculous, the pace slow, the direction terrible, there's no tension and hardly any scares. Oh, and the music sounds like it was written for a daytime soap. In fact the special effects are so terrible that some are hilarious. At one point the heroine - in witchy mode - puts some sort of smoke pellet into a glass of water to choke our hero and the smoke is clearly billowing from behind the glass, not out of it. The paintings are terrible - we only recognise the 16th Century version of Tom Selleck because in the painting he has the same 70s-style moustache. Brilliant!
I saw this as a teenager, and my head must have been turned by the brief topless scenes, because there's little else here except some atmospheric shots of Manila as it was in 1972 and a half-decent - performances by Selleck and Tani Guthrie who at least show they might be better with a decent director.
Otherwise, the occasional moments of fun are probably not worth the rental.
The script is poor (though there are a few good lines), the plotting ridiculous, the pace slow, the direction terrible, there's no tension and hardly any scares. Oh, and the music sounds like it was written for a daytime soap. In fact the special effects are so terrible that some are hilarious. At one point the heroine - in witchy mode - puts some sort of smoke pellet into a glass of water to choke our hero and the smoke is clearly billowing from behind the glass, not out of it. The paintings are terrible - we only recognise the 16th Century version of Tom Selleck because in the painting he has the same 70s-style moustache. Brilliant!
I saw this as a teenager, and my head must have been turned by the brief topless scenes, because there's little else here except some atmospheric shots of Manila as it was in 1972 and a half-decent - performances by Selleck and Tani Guthrie who at least show they might be better with a decent director.
Otherwise, the occasional moments of fun are probably not worth the rental.