My review was written in April 1988 after watching the film on Lightning video cassette.
"Eternal Evil", originally entitled "The Blue Man" is a 1985 Canadian-made horror pic that makes little use of an interesting supernatural premise. Pic was briefly released last year ahead of current home video availability.
Winston Rekert portrays a tv commercials helmer whose studies of astral production (i.e., leaving one's body on psychic trips) get him into trouble as the main suspect in a series of brutal killings he's seemingly witnessed in his sleep. As the police, led by ineffectual Det. Kaufman (John Novak), plod along miles behind the audience in solving the case, it turns out that an ancient couple is mystically inhabiting a succession of other people's bodies and responsible for the killings.
Director George Mihalka emphasizes swooping, wide-angle, first-person camera for the astral traveling sequences but otherwise fails to make the necessary plot connections. Rekert is an earnest antihero and co-star Karen Black is convincingly strange in a lesbian role that turns out to be more complicated than that. Erstwhile Miss Moneypenny of the James Bond films Lois Maxwell shows up in a brief cameo.
"Eternal Evil", originally entitled "The Blue Man" is a 1985 Canadian-made horror pic that makes little use of an interesting supernatural premise. Pic was briefly released last year ahead of current home video availability.
Winston Rekert portrays a tv commercials helmer whose studies of astral production (i.e., leaving one's body on psychic trips) get him into trouble as the main suspect in a series of brutal killings he's seemingly witnessed in his sleep. As the police, led by ineffectual Det. Kaufman (John Novak), plod along miles behind the audience in solving the case, it turns out that an ancient couple is mystically inhabiting a succession of other people's bodies and responsible for the killings.
Director George Mihalka emphasizes swooping, wide-angle, first-person camera for the astral traveling sequences but otherwise fails to make the necessary plot connections. Rekert is an earnest antihero and co-star Karen Black is convincingly strange in a lesbian role that turns out to be more complicated than that. Erstwhile Miss Moneypenny of the James Bond films Lois Maxwell shows up in a brief cameo.