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Lord of Illusions (1995)

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51%
(23 votes)
Critic Rating
50%
(1 review)
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Directed by
Clive Barker

Written by
Clive Barker

Cast
Scott Bakula, Kevin J. O'Connor, Famke Janssen, Vincent Schiavelli, Barry Del Sherman [more]


Release Date
• USA: Aug 25, 1995
DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 29, 1998
• R2: 19 Jun 2000

MPAA Rating
Rated R for strong violence and gore, and for language and sexuality.

Running Time
1 hour, 49 minutes

Country USA

Studio MGM/United Artists

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Other Titles
• Lord of Illusions
• Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions (1995)



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 Synopses for Lord of Illusions (1995)
1.Scott Bakula portrays Harry D'Amour, a private detective visiting Los Angeles on a routine investigation. Harry gets more than he bargains for when he encounters Philip Swann, a performer whose amazing illusions captivate the world. But are they really illusions? Harry isn't so sure as he is thrust into a nightmare murder, deception and terrifying assaults from the dark beyond.   
58.181818181818%
(11 votes)

2.Thirteen years ago, cultist Philip Swan murdered his group's leader, an evil prophet named Nix who possessed unparalleled skills in black magic. Then he hid the body -- very well.

Now a successful magician in his own right, Swann finds himself stalked by Nix's followers, who want Nix's corpse so they can bring it back to life. Swann's wife Dorothea, aware of the dangers facing her husband, hires hard-boiled detective Harry D'Amour to watch over Philip. Soon D'Amour becomes deeply embroiled in the dark, unstable world of the supernatural, where nefarious illusionists, strange conjurings, creepy cultists, and the mysterious Mrs. Swann all turn his life into a living nightmare.
  
67.5%
(8 votes)

3.
From The New Yorker
Clive Barker's new picture is a good attempt at genre-snatching: he's taken clichés from horror and film noir and welded them together in a supernatural detective movie. The story-about a New York investigator who becomes involved in the black-magic lives of several illusionists and California cultists-rambles along unconvincingly, with a logic that is hazy at best. But Barker's images have the thrilling creepiness of a Nine Inch Nails video. The first half of the film, which includes some gruesome mutilation, is as comically suspenseful as the gimp scene in "Pulp Fiction." Unfortunately, at a certain point the supernatural takes over; the ending is just a blast of horror effects. -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker
  
65%
(8 votes)



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