The Science Fiction Horror and Fantasy Film Review
Angels are heavenly entities. They are seen as the messengers of The Almighty. The traditional image of the angel is of a human-like being of ethereal beauty and almost always with a pair of wings and sometimes a halo. Satan was a former angel who rebelled against Heaven, for which he and a host of other angels were cast down into Hell.
Angels frequently turn up in Light Fantasy Films and comedies, where they are essentially heavenly bureaucrats come down to Earth to help individuals sort their lives out or rectify heavenly errors. Other treatments concern guardian angels.
There are a number of comedies about angels or featuring angels acting in less-than-heavenly ways. There has also been a certain body of serious angel fantasies and a number of treatments of angels that fall within the horror genre.
Unrelated to the Bill Murray film in anything but name, this is a moronic teen summer camp comedy in which Patrick Dempsey is aided in trying to lose his virginity by angel Sally Kellerman
Italian-made sequel to the campy Vincent Price starring Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine. Directed by the usually great Mario Bava and overrun by the buffoonish clowning of Italian comics Franco and Ciccio
A film about alien visitors, transcendental states of mind and sinister government agencies. This boggles the mind in terms of laughable writing and all-round bad filmmaking
A controversy-laden Jean-Luc Godard film that offers an irreverent modern-day retelling of the Immaculate Conception. An amusing idea that vanishes under Godard’s pretensions
Possibly THE worst film ever made. Tony Watt throws an mash-up of exploitation elements together in an incomprehensible plot. A film that made me want to hammer a nail through my eyeball rather than keep watching
One of the most excruciatingly painful films ever made – a softcore comedy in which God and The Devil make a bet to replay the Garden of Eden by reincarnating Adam and Eve throughout history. Filled with ghastly over-the-top performances and much eye-rolling innuendo