A pale and zany butchered adaptation of the the source material from the pages of classic Marvel Horror. Both of the leads are wasted and instead the focus is on other boring meandering subplots which adds nothing valuable to the story. Sydney lemmon fares much better than the charismatic yet moody Tom Austen but I don't think it's because of the acting. I'm quite sure both are equally good but Daimon's character has zero personality and as such treated without reverence (when in reality or should i say comic book world?) he's usually a brooding, melancholic pariah from existence. He's got nowhere to go, ostracized from society due to his demonic heritage for being the son of Satan and branded as a traitor by the forces of netherworld (who are the closest thing he's got to a kin) due to rejecting pure Evil. But he acts it out as if it's nothing and all's good to go. Too bad but there were glimmers of SatANA's (Sydney's character) personality sprinkled. But that's it... sprinkled and not ex positioned properly. She's a succubus after all, draining the life force of men by seducing them could have been much much better but alas. One thing you have to understand is that our leads are NOT heroes like your cookie cutter good vs villain stuff but rather afflicted by evil who are trying to shed their demonic heritage, they have to keep their dark side under control, waging a perpetual war to subdue their inherent evil by righting a wrong. The major dichotomy between the siblings is that Daimon rejects the ways and teachings of Evil while her sister welcomes it with open arms. None of it is properly explained or shown. The side characters of caretaker and hastings are utterly distracting and adds nothing to empathize our hell spawn duo siblings. Nor do complement our leads in any way just monotonous drab dialogue without much implications. They should have been fleshed out thoroughly. And Visual effects are barely decent compared to production houses that nowadays usually work with. The stakes are absent even when demonic forces are at work and a sense of foreboding doom should linger around. The dialogue is somewhat good but again sprinkled, fails overall. just stay away and read the source material available for free online
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