Shadow Builder (1998)

User Rating:

4.7/10   

Director:

Jamie Dixon

Writer:

Michael Stokes (writer)

Release Date:

7 February 1998 (Japan)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

When God created light, the first shadow was born.

Plot:

A demon is summoned to take the soul of a young boy who has the potential to become a saint. By doing this he will open a doorway to hell and destroy the world.

Plot Keywords:

Young Boy | Shirtless Male Bondage | Independent Film

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Michael Rooker	...	Father Vassey
Leslie Hope	...	Jenny Hatcher
Shawn Thompson	...	Sheriff Sam Logan
Andrew Jackson	...	Shadowbuilder
Kevin Zegers	...	Chris Hatcher
Tony Todd	...	Evert Covey
Hardee T. Lineham	...	Nestor Tibbot (as Hardee Lineham)
Catherine Bruhier	...	Maggie MacKinnon
Gordon Michael Woolvett	...	Larry Eggers (as Gordon M. Woolvett)
James B. Douglas	...	Doc Cole
Richard McMillan	...	Father Finler
Charlotte Sullivan	...	Jazz
Andrew Sardella	...	Paul
David Calderisi	...	Bishop Gallo
Lawrence Bayne	...	Quinlan

Also Known As:

Bram Stoker's Shadowbuilder

MPAA:

Rated R for horror violence/gore, language and some nudity.

Runtime:

Greece:90 min | Sweden:97 min | USA:120 min | 101 min (DVD)

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:16 | South Korea:15 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 (video premiere) | France:-12 (TV rating) | Portugal:M/16 (video premiere) | UK:18 | USA:R | Philippines:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Paris, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Apple Creek Productions

Trivia:

The credits show the film as "introducing" Kevin Zegers, but, counting both theatrical and TV movies, this is his eleventh feature role.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: As Vassey drives his car into town, he opens a pill bottle to take a white tablet, yet you can see that he drops the pill just before his hand mimes popping it into his mouth.

Quotes:

Chris Hatcher: Listen, the sheriff's dating my aunt Jen, so that practically makes me the deputy.
Jazz: Little Deputy Dickless.

Not bad for a straight to video cheese flick

You can buy this puppy in a WalMart cutout bin for under $6, so what's the harm? It has modest, reasonably effective FX, a killer performance by Michael Rooker, slumming here as a gun-toting priest on the trail of PURE EVIL, and handsome, young Canadian thesp Kevin Zegers who went on to star in such masterpieces as KOMODO and several AIR BUD flicks. Zegers also will star in the 2004 remake of DAWN OF THE DEAD. And it's all (very loosely) based on a Bram (DRACULA) Stoker story! Just like BRAM STOKER'S CURSE OF THE MUMMY! What more could one ask for? Hey, it's no worse than any of those H.P. Lovecraft "adaptations" that popped out of the woodwork in the late 80s and early 90s. I'm thinking in particular of the one where five teens are trapped in a house with a guy and his "wife" whom he keeps chained in the attic. "She" turns out to be some sort of horned demon with great big breasts. That one was good enough to warrant a half-assed sequel. THE UNNAMEABLE was its name, I seem to recall.