'The Eye of Satan' is competently directed by, David Kent-Watson, the creative filmmaker behind low budget, equally groovy, not-quite cult 'Into The Darkness'. Starring polymath body-builder, titanium thewed Thespian, neophyte horror author, legendary bouncer, martial arts hard man, Cliff Twemlow. Mike Sullivan's (Cliff Twemlow) pulpy supernatural text is singular in its approach, audaciously melding hyper-violent, street-tough gangster action with satanic horror tropes. Following a bungled, altogether duplicitous arms deal, the increasingly bloody internecine machinations born of wrongfully purloined, awesomely potent occult talisman 'The Eye of Satan' culminates in a brutal, eye-poppingly lurid climax. Heroically unconventional, 'The Eye of Satan' (1988) is a hyperbolic admixture of satanically-sinewed martial arts mayhem and gratuitously shot gunning, puma mauling B-Horror madness!
Cliff Twemlow was devil spawned to play the panther-morphing, exquisitely evil occultist, Kane. His flint-edged Easter Island features, tempered steel, William Smith physique and equally resolute, unyielding 1000 yard stare prove devilishly hypnotic! The mercenary, Kane is ostensibly hired to protect sultry siren, Christine Stringer (Ginette Gray), the wilful, luridly libidinous daughter of shady businessman, Steve Stringer (Liam Leslie). Not long after babysitting, Christine, Kane becomes dangerously embroiled in recovering the Eye of Satan. Having to aggressively extract himself from the double-dealing excitingly translates into some lusty set-pieces of bone-breaking brutality and vivid supernatural spectacle!
'The Eye of Satan' is an entertaining, blissfully bonkers B-Movie jewel, expertly mounted by low-budget celluloid craftsman David Kent-Watson, brought to hypertrophic life by the preternaturally virile Cliff Twemlow. Twemlow has more exciting presence than Santa's Christmas grotto, and, frankly, would be considerably more fun to unwrap! No objective overview of this undeservedly obscure, jaw-droppingly jacked, crudely Karate-Chopping, Panther-paced horror hybrid would be complete without praising the film's subtly sinister score.
