Horror comedy Satanic Panic kicks off in promising style, with pizza delivery girl Sam Craft (buxom beauty Hayley Griffith) crashing a party of devil worshippers in search of a tip. When the Satanists realise that Sam is a virgin, they take her prisoner with the intention of using her in a ritual to summon demon Baphomet. Sam isn't too happy about this, and with the help of Judi (Ruby Modine), daughter of head occultist Danica (Rebecca Romijn), sets about trying to spoil their plans.
There's a scene in this film where a woman wearing a huge, rotating drill-bit dildo impales another woman through the chest, at which point I thought I had discovered a really twisted horror gem, one that would only get more and more demented as it progressed; unfortunately, it doesn't. There are still a few fun moments to be had, but nothing quite as outrageous as I had hoped for, making the film feel like something of a disappointment overall.
Jerry O'Connell has a small part as a sleaze-bag who offers to deflower Sam, but accidentally shoots himself in the neck; Danica cooks up a strange bloodsucking sphincter creature and sends it to find Sam; Judi pukes up worms; and a demon in the form of a little girl makes the Satanists pay dearly for a mistake. All of this is reasonably entertaining, but had director Chelsea Stardust seized the opportunity and allowed the lunacy to escalate to epic proportions, it would have been so much more memorable-a bona fide cult classic instead of just a passable time-waster.
There's a scene in this film where a woman wearing a huge, rotating drill-bit dildo impales another woman through the chest, at which point I thought I had discovered a really twisted horror gem, one that would only get more and more demented as it progressed; unfortunately, it doesn't. There are still a few fun moments to be had, but nothing quite as outrageous as I had hoped for, making the film feel like something of a disappointment overall.
Jerry O'Connell has a small part as a sleaze-bag who offers to deflower Sam, but accidentally shoots himself in the neck; Danica cooks up a strange bloodsucking sphincter creature and sends it to find Sam; Judi pukes up worms; and a demon in the form of a little girl makes the Satanists pay dearly for a mistake. All of this is reasonably entertaining, but had director Chelsea Stardust seized the opportunity and allowed the lunacy to escalate to epic proportions, it would have been so much more memorable-a bona fide cult classic instead of just a passable time-waster.