Product Details

• Actors: Christopher McDonald, Rachael Leigh Cook, Stanley Tucci, Wendy Crewson, Maximilian Schell
• Directors: William Bindley
• Writers: David Seltzer
• Producers: David Seltzer, David Turchi, Douglas Curtis, Jim Burke, William Hart
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• VHS Release Date: October 6, 1998
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0767811313
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #413,883 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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"Satan will no longer be beast... but beauty!" That declaration comes early in The Eighteenth Angel, signaling the kind of horror movie we're in for: thick and cheesy. When that line (and others like it) is uttered by mad monk Maximilian Schell, it's even creamier. Schell is ushering in the return of the Antichrist by genetically engineering Satan's minions, but he needs the transplanted faces of beautiful humans to complete the task. Enter Rachael Leigh Cook (pre-She's All That), who travels with dad Christopher McDonald to Italy, perilously close to Schell's monastery-laboratory. The movie has lots of Omen- style devilry, and it's somehow reassuring to see Omen screenwriter David Seltzer still flogging the old 666 gimmick. The genre has its kicks, but the execution here is pretty clumsy, and Cook is a clueless heroine. For pure camp value, however, Maximilian Schell approaches Rod-Steiger-Amityville-Horror status. --Robert Horton

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Decent flick great acting, January 21, 2003

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C. Weldon "Movie Guy" (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Eighteenth Angel (DVD)

Rachel Leigh Cook plays Lucy stanton, a beautiful young girl who wants something exciting to happen. She kind of gets her wish. She meets a man who promises to make her a famous model. what he really intends to do is use to her to reincarnate Lucifer. Rachel was impressive even back when she made this semi horror movie. The actingis incredible from Cook and Christopher McDonald (who plays her father). There are a lot of other striking performances in the film but most of them are actors that I didnt recognize and can't say I have seen since. If you want to watch a movie with a decent story line, very few plot holes, and an exceptionally well acted cast ,this is the film you want. I enjoyed it immensely and have been a fan of Rachel ever since.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Better than I thought..., July 27, 2000

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Christopher Cheung (Germantown, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eighteenth Angel [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I was in a video store the other day when the cover of this movie caught my eye. It looked like a typical, cheesy B-horror movie ("The Crow Flies, The Clock Strikes And the Devil is Due"--words from box cover), but when I saw that Rachael Leigh Cook ("She's All That") starred in it, I knew I had to get it.

I was expecting a badly acted/directed horror movie, but surprisingly enough, I thought it was quite good. It really isn't a horror movie per se, it's more of a suspense movie. It did seem longer than 90 minutes as there aren't a lot of high-intensity action scenes (as one reviewer noted). I won't get into the plot as there are enough reviews to do it justice. The ending was both surprising and typical and I won't spoil it as a couple of reviewers have already done (but if you've seen a lot of horror movies, you can already guess the ending).

All in all, this movie was better than I thought it would be. It actually has a plot and a decent storyline, much more than I can say for some other horror movies I've seen. It may offend some that are deeply religious, as there are some scenes of pseudo-Satanic rituals (but somehow I don't think they would be watching these kinds of movies if they were). But if you're a fan of the incomparable Rachael Leigh Cook, I highly recommend this movie as it showcases her previous modelling experience quite well.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good acting and lots of tension, July 14, 2011

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Israel Drazin (Boca Raton, Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Eighteenth Angel (DVD)

This film starts by asserting, and this is the basis of the film, that the biblical book Isaiah, chapter 14, speaks about Satan. This is clearly untrue, as anyone can find out by looking at the chapter, which does not speak about Satan, but about the country of Babylon. The rest of the film is also based on pure fantasy, although the film-makers hope that their viewers will believe what they see and hear.

An evil priest, a leader of a church full of his followers, has one of his flock hypnotize a woman, the mother of Lucy, and commands her to jump off a roof to her death. The evil priest wants to get her out of the way so that he can gain control of her daughter who is so beautiful that he calls her an angel. He is unafraid of Lucy's father, who as seen in the film, is unable to control his daughter and keep her out of the priest's clutches. The film is filled with tension because, while Lucy's father senses evil around him and Lucy, Lucy refuses to listen to him, and is led to the priest.

The priest is a follower of Satan. He believes that he must find eighteen angels, eighteen beautiful children, who correspond to 666, the number of Satan, when the numbers are added up. He believes that if he prepares the children in a certain way when the clock strikes a certain hour, Satan will rise and overcome God. Those who enjoy being tensed may enjoy the film.