Friday, October 21, 2011

A Day of Judgment (1981)


Directed by Christopher Reynolds
My rating: BOMB
IMDb
(VHS, Thorn EMI)

Painfully bad amateur North Carolina production about a preacher who vows to take vengeance on the sinful residents of a small town. Most of the running time is taken up by low budget soap opera melodrama acted by hicks with atrocious southern drawls. The lines are over rehearsed and delivered without emotion or spontaneity. Apparently it is also supposed to be a period piece, but fails miserably to convince. In one scene, an old lady is dragged to hell through her flower garden. Later, there is a decapitation. Don't worry, it turns out it was all just a dream anyway. The Ten Commandments are displayed in their entirety before the credits, so I guess this was intended to be shown on church night in Wilmington.

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