Saw Lord of Illusions, another Clive Barker film. It was really good! It followed a private eye who becomes mixed up in the sinister aftermath of a dissolved cult. The cultists have mostly gone into lives of sort-of-magic; stage magicians, palm readers and such. Of course, this being a horror film, the cult was actually on to something supernatural and the evilest twink in the world is trying to resurrect the dead cult leader.
The film is very lush - full of gorgeous colors and satin and mahogany. The private eye gets his fair share of noir-y stakeouts and melodramatic drawing-room scenes. Of course, the bulk of the film is taken up with supernatural doings and murder and such, but what mystery there is is given a fair shake. There's a David Lynch-ish mixture of the bizarre and the mundane.
This film seems to be about love and coupling mostly. There's only one fairly chaste sex scene, but the main motivations of the characters wind up being mostly about other people: wanting to spend eternity with them, devoting their lives to them, staying together out of gratitude (and explicitly not out of love!) Characters are almost never alone.
I enjoyed the movie. The cult stuff is great - the art on the walls in particular. The baddies were strange and off-putting and the heroes attractive. The visuals were interesting and the antics of the cult worrying. It was a good movie which I think only didn't do well because the antagonist evil twink was given so much screen time.
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