Huntress: Spirit of the Night

Year: 1991

Director: Mark Manos

Written by: James Sealskin

Threat: Curse

Weapon of Choice: Revolver

IMDb page: IMDb link

       Huntress: Spirit of the Night

Rish Outfield's reviews
Okay, let me say first, that this is the dirtiest film we have reviewed for this site. Also, it was very, very stupid. These things are beyond question. The thing is: is it horror? Hopefully for you, you'll never have to answer that question. We see this stuff so you don't have to, folks. It's like the description of the (Garage Sale Roy Rogers) Wagon Wheel Coffee Table in When Harry Met Sally..., it's so awful, I don't know how to begin to say how awful it is. And I don't know how to review it, either. Hopefully, Tyranist was more eloquent. I will mention two things, though: Huntress was like an adult film with a supernatural element or two thrown in (two?) to try and ‘legitimize' it. Didn't work. And: The ending royally sucked. I haven't seen a less satisfying ending since I was a boy and tried to tape Diamonds Are Forever on our brand new VCR (since my bedtime was 8:30) and the tape ran out ten minutes before it ended.
Best Scare: My latent childhood fear that my mom would walk in while I was watching it.
I'd Recommend It To: I wouldn't, actually. I'd just pretend I never saw it.

The tyranist's thoughts
In spite of a fantastic idea, this movie was very poorly done. They took an idea that could have easily been a very creepy little nice-English-town-but-there's-a-curse movie and porned it up to the point that it is almost hard to watch (and I didn't mean that kind of hard. Pervert!). The only thing that you can count on in this movie is nudity. It happens like clockwork. Unfortunately, nothing else seems to matter to these people. The production values were fairly high, but lacked immensely in one important place: the transformation. You see, the main character is supposed to be periodically transforming into a beast (a black panther specifically). Whenever this transformation is supposed to be happening, she gets down on all fours and quivers a little. There is then a cut to a shot of her face where we can see that she has black eyes (I will admit that this little detail was ultra-cool. She reminded me of the dead chick in Event Horizon). That is it. Sometimes they then do a little close to the ground, very quick moving, camera is killer thing to make us think she is the panther, but it never works. Even suspending disbelief is hard after the first couple times. Oh, and folks, they actually state that she is supposed to be literally turning into a panther.
I guess when it comes down to it, if you are looking for a little horror/soft-core porn mix that isn't scary in the least, this film won't disappoint. Otherwise, steer clear.

Sequel
Owes everything to/rips off earlier film
Sequel setup skull
Bad title skull
Bad premise
Bad acting
Bad dialogue
MTV Editing
OTS skullskull
Girl unnecessarily gets naked skullskull
Wanton sex skullskull
Death associated with sex
Characters forget about threat
Secluded location skull
Power is cut
Phone lines are cut
Someone investigates a strange noise skull
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door
Camera is the killer skull
Victims cower in front of a window/door
Toilet stall scene skull
Victim locks self in with killer
Killer is in car with victim skull
Cat jumps out
Fake scare
Laughable scare
Blood hits camera
Beheading
Killer doesn't stay dead
Stupid discovery of corpse
Dream sequence skull
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls skull
No one believes only witness skull
Blood fountain
Poor death effect
Excessive gore
Music detracts from scene skull
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie
Future celebrity appears
No one dies at all skullskull
Death in first five minutes
Virgin survives
Geek/Nerd survives
Little kid lamely survives
Dog/Pet miraculously survives
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes
Unresolved subplots skullskull
"It was all a dream" ending
Unbelievably happy ending
What the hell? skullskull

Total Skulls: 23

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