The novels of Dean R. Koontz have amassed as big a cult
following as Stephen King and like King many of his novels have been adapted to
film with varying degrees of success. Servants of Twilight (1991) is adapted
from Koontz’ novel “Twilight” and stars Bruce Greenwood as Charlie Harrison, a
private detective who is hired by Christine Scavello (Belinda Bauer) to protect
her son Joey (Jarrett Lennon) from a fanatical cult that believes that he is
the Anti-Christ reborn.
As bodies keep piling up around Charlie he must decide how
far he is willing to protect Christine and her son when everywhere they turn
they are hounded and hunted down by the cult and their leader Grace Spivey
(Grace Zabriskie) who knows there every turn.
As tension mounts, Charlie finds himself getting closer to Christine and
he finds it harder to keep his perspective as Spivey and her followers will
stop at nothing to kill Joey and anyone that gets in their way.
There is no real mystery to the film although the road trip
chase film scenario works really well keeping the film following at a brisk
pace and the tense and suspense high. It
there is any real problem with the film it is that the Twilight cult that
Spivey runs comes off as fanatics and cartoonish but Zabriskie knows how t o
play this up having come from David Lynch’s Twin
Peaks. This film has actually aged
better than some of the other Koontz adapted films and movies about the
Anti-Christ (i.e. The Omen franchise
and Rosemary’s Baby) usually age
better than expected.
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