Blu-ray Review – Fear No Evil

What writer/director Frank LaLoggia is reaching for with 1981's "Fear No Evil" is an epic showdown between demonic threats and heavenly forces. It's an antichrist tale, exploring the arrival of evil in the form of a teenage boy, tapping into industry Satanic Panic trends of the 1970s as LaLoggia figures out a way to bring a complex religious story to the screen on a tiny budget. To help entice potential ticket-buyers, LaLoggia elects to pair biblical fury with a high school saga about a bullied kid. The merging of genres isn't ideal, and "Fear No Evil" often struggles to balance both sides of the screenplay, which always plays like a first draft that lucked its ways into production. The helmer has some intriguing ideas to share on the state of Godly might, and a few B-movie ideas are appealing, but this isn't cohesive effort, often playing like two separate features competing for screen time. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com