The Friday Night Fright: The Devil’s Den
A low budget From Dusk Till Dawn knock off, cunningly disguised by having the strip club full of flesh eating ghouls instead of vampires. Devon Sawa, a few Big Macs down the road from Final Destination, plays a Spanish Fly smuggling slacker, Kelly Hu a government assassin and Ken Foree is a samurai sword wielding monster hunter, who all cross paths at the Devil’s Den bar.
The Film is as bad as it sounds but at least it’s never dull. The effects are reasonable (given the budget) and even the action isn’t bad but the film is so badly written all it can hope for is to be a good bad movie. It does score an extra point (with me at least) for having a fantasy sequence that features Zatoichi, the hero of a series of Japanese samurai films, facing off against the ghouls but with the exception of that scene this is an instantly forgettable affair.
