31 days of horror Year 3 day 13

Satanic Yuppies
1996
Tempe Video


Now this is kinda of a cheat. Thanks to stuff I couldn't have predicted I didn't get a chance to watch a horror film today. So this is a review of one I saw a few weeks back. Back in the late 90s I was getting almost every magazine that dealt with cult movies. In the pages of Alternative Cinema I found out about a movie that was coming out soon to VHS,it was called Evil Ambitions. But it had been originally titled Satanic Yuppies. It seems someone had told the company that made the film,that movies with Satan in the title were hard to sell to Mom and Pop video stores in the south. Which is strange,I have lived 90% of my life in the deep south,and back when you could still find a Mom and Pop video store they always had the stuff that Blockbuster didn't. And I saw plenty of VHS with Satan or some variant in the title. Well back in 2006 Tempe video got the makers to re-edit the film and they changed the title back to Satanic Yuppies.


We start off with a cult doing a ritual. And for some reason there is random cut aways to a busty naked blonde playing with a snake. Well the next day the body is found in a park by the Ohio river. And reporter for one of the Cincinnati papers is there. You can tell this reporter is based off Kolchek. He even copies some of Daren McGavin's mannerisms.


Well the movie keeps showing up this cult sacrificing women. And the reporter trying to solve the mystery. Turns out some politician is the head of the cult. And big surprise he is a Republican.


Well the reporter gets kidnapped by the female leader of the cult. Who is played by Amber Newman. And at the very end Satan is summoned. And the makeup effects on him are pretty good. Well the woman they have for him turns out to not be a virgin. No big surprise she is a pretty blonde with big gazongas. So he kills the Republican douche bag,and sends 3 of the other cult members to hell. The only funny part of the film. Is this one cult member,who looks like a shorter fatter Undertaker,while being sent to Hell is headbanging his ass off.


The DVD has 2 extras. A commentary with the directors,writer,producer,and a bunch of the cast. And it is OK. Plus a 10 minute "Action new 93" piece that is looking back at the Satanic Yuppies murders. This is very lame and isn't worth watching. Really the entire film,besides the one cult member headbanging his ass off while being sent to hell,isn't worth watching. I wish I hadn't bought this DVD. Satanic Yuppies gets a F+. The + is for the headbanging cult member.