Dark Angel: The Ascent

She's an Angel....
Dark Angel was produced in 1994 by Full Moon Entertainment, a low budget horror house. I love this movie. Full Moon does a fair amount of crap, but sometimes - like this one - the lack of a serious budget forces the filmmakers to be really ingenious in compensation, and they turn out some surprisingly affecting work.

Dark Angel, subtitled The Ascent, stars Angela Featherstone. In case you're not familiar with the name, you might have seen her as Jess, Ben Stiller's girlfriend in The Zero Effect, or Nikki, the punked-out lesbian all over Eliza Dushku (and who can blame her?) in Soul Survivors. Probably best know as Chloe the "Xerox girl" who got between Ross and Rachel on Friends.

In Dark Angel, Angela plays Veronica, a teenaged demon from Hell who's always wondered about the world above. Her father is one of Hell's most fearsome torturers, and so impatient with her curiosity - demons have been forbidden by Heaven to ascend into the "real world" - that in a fit...

Dark Angel ROCKS!!!!!!!!
Life is hell for Veronica Iscariot. Unlike her underworld brethren, the sultry demon takes no pleasure in tormenting the eternally damned. However when Veronica leaves Hell in search of salvation, things take an evil turn. The land of the living is polluted with corruption, and the self-righteous she-demon feels compelled to put things right.
Along with her bloodthirsty hound Hellraiser, Veronica delivers powerful retribution, unceremoniously tearing the wicked and the unforgiven limb from limb.
Only one person stands in the way of the rising body count-Dr. Max Harris, a handsome young surgeon with a pure heart. When he and Veronica fall in love, their innocent romance quickly turns into a sinful adventure as the couple becomes intwined in a supernatural struggle for Veronica's very soul.

God-worshipping demons in hell anybody?
Dark Angel: The Ascent is about a demonness from hell named Veronica who wishes to explore the world above. Born and raised in hell, she has never experienced the pleasures of life on earth. Against her father's wishes, she makes "The Ascent" to earth and finds herself naked in a dark alleyway. She soon gets hit by a car and finds herself in the hospital to be tended to by a doctor named Max. Max brings Veronica into his home and Veronica, by watching local news on T.V. realizes earth is filled with evildoers. Soon, Veronica goes on a murderous vigilante rampage to rid the city of scum, including the town's crooked mayor.

Another decent release by Full Moon, the studio that put out a plethora of quality straight-to-vid B-movie horror in the 90's. The budget here is limited but it is exactly this that helps lend the film its atmospheric and surreal feeling. Many scenes like those in hell, in dark alleyways, in graveyards are dark and chilling even though they often look too...

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Seedpeople

tree-like alien tries to take over earth
when a creature from outer space resembling a mutant tree craves world domination it does so by turning people into plant monsters (three types the sailor a fly-like creature that acts as a scout,the tumbler a furry plant thing turns into a thorny ball and the shooter a two legged no armed plant beast that takes over peoples minds or turns them into other shooters) and by using the residents of an oterwise quiet town to germinate more plant creatures the only ones who can stop it are a man returning to the town a unbalenced mad scientest a young cop and two teenaged girls

Trashy fun...
A silly mid-80s horror with trashy but fun effects & a feel of leaden amateurishness & derivative scripting. I rather liked the rolling & kind of flying seed-creatures & the pitiful rip-off of Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. It does deliver exactly what the cover promises & the seed-monsters get a reasonable amount of screen-time.

The dvd has a decent, clear widescreen print of the film, so this is probably the best version of it there's ever been, and comes with a likeable 'making of' featurette and 10 trailers for other Full Moon productions.

Hope these aren't the Fig Newton seeds
Being just on the cusp of September we are starting to get the cravings to watch loads of horror b, football, and drink plenty of fall craft beers. Now it still may be jumping the gun to some, but we're very enthusiastic about the upcoming Autumn season and try to rush it as quickly as possible. Despite it not being a brisk fall evening, we still felt it necessary to kick the season off with a little Full Moon goodness. Full Moon was a force of B to be reckoned with in the mid 80's-mid 90's, which unfortunately is no longer the case in this day and age. Since then it's been a slow and painful fall from grace that leaves us longing for the old gems like Seedpeople. Sure these films are still bad, but they're that perfect storm of unintentional comedy we all need in life.

We kick off the evening in a sleepy little town known as Comet Valley, which has a strong case of "the feel." Enter our...um hero?...of the film that looks like a combination of Matt Collins and the nerdy...

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