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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

EMPIRE OF THE DARK 1991 (VCI) BLU-RAY

Now, this is an odd movie co-produced by Fred Olen Ray.

Steve Barkett directed and stars in this weird horror/action film. Barkett stars as Richard Flynn, a retired policeman now turned private bounty hunter.

Flynn retired from police work after the woman he loved was killed by satanists and before you know it, he is pulled back into a case involving the very same Satanists he killed 20 years earlier.

Barkett's real life som Christopher plays his son Terry in this movie. Flynn joins with his son and a former co-worker, policeman named Eddie Green (Jay Richardson) to defeat the cult and bring an end to their reign of terror and killing.

There is an interesting combination of stop motion animation involving a giant demon from Hell and action as Flynn is always fighting an endless army of hooded ninja demons. Richard Harrison is the leader of the demonic cult who sacrifices women in order to rule the world.

A very low budget effort and even though most of the fight scenes are poorly done, you can tell that the filmmakers were at least trying and did put the best effort they could into the film.

There are a lot of what I call insert shots of various buildings, and they do use a lot of old style backdrop shots in this film. Hey, you do what you gotta do with no money.

The rest of the cast includes Dawn Wildsmith, Joe Pilato, Tera Hendrikson, Jan Bryant and Trisha Drake. It's an odd movie, but you might like it. I did.

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