"Abraxas" is a familiar name to anyone who watched the series Charmed on The WB, being one of the higher-level demon antagonists that the sisters face. IIRC, it's also a demon that is mentioned somewhere in the Evil Dead lore.
My best friend and I saw this once as part of Shout! Factory TV's 24-Hour MST3K Channel, only it was a RiffTrax episode they put over the movie. I kind of liked it for trying to reach for...more than a cheesy TERMINATOR knockoff, even if it was the writer/director "borrowing" freely from Jack Kirby, and the production struggling to achieve either!
I didn't know Jim Belushi was married to the female lead, Marjorie Bransfield, at the time, though it explains how his character from THE PRINCIPAL suddenly shows up in a weird SF movie. In fact, my friend commented upon seeing Belushi pop up suddenly, "One of these things/Is not like the ot-hers...."
It does kind of make you want to see a legit New Gods/Fourth World movie, doesn't it? (And no, The Snyder Cut does not count, even if it WAS better than Whedon's take.)
"Abraxas" is a familiar name to anyone who watched the series Charmed on The WB, being one of the higher-level demon antagonists that the sisters face. IIRC, it's also a demon that is mentioned somewhere in the Evil Dead lore.
THIS Abraxas? Nope, never heard of 'im!
Oh man, sounds a lot like Masters of the Universe.
And I *love* Masters of the Universe. Only, like, 50% ironically.
My best friend and I saw this once as part of Shout! Factory TV's 24-Hour MST3K Channel, only it was a RiffTrax episode they put over the movie. I kind of liked it for trying to reach for...more than a cheesy TERMINATOR knockoff, even if it was the writer/director "borrowing" freely from Jack Kirby, and the production struggling to achieve either!
I didn't know Jim Belushi was married to the female lead, Marjorie Bransfield, at the time, though it explains how his character from THE PRINCIPAL suddenly shows up in a weird SF movie. In fact, my friend commented upon seeing Belushi pop up suddenly, "One of these things/Is not like the ot-hers...."
It does kind of make you want to see a legit New Gods/Fourth World movie, doesn't it? (And no, The Snyder Cut does not count, even if it WAS better than Whedon's take.)