Review – Servants of Twilight

This has the look and feel of one of those movies that was probably at least a little better as a book. The story, supplied by Dean Koontz, follows a bizarre cult’s attempts to murder a small boy because their messianic wacko leader is convinced that the tot is the Antichrist. Unfortunately, the script meanders so much that starting around halfway through it starts getting hard to muster much interest in the goings-on. Further, before the floundering is finished they’ve managed to brutally slaughtered not one but two big, fluffy dogs. And to top it all off, the last battle with the cultists comes in the form of a rubber bat attack. Not good. Not good at all. I won’t ruin the final twist for you, if for no other reason than the fact that it’s so feeble and so obvious that it pretty much ruins itself. See if desperate