Night Trap (film) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Night Trap also known as Mardi Gras for the Devil is a supernatural thriller/supernatural horror

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

/psycho noir

Neo-noir

Neo-noir is a style often seen in modern motion pictures and other forms that prominently utilize elements of film noir, but with updated themes, content, style, visual elements or media that were absent in films noir of the 1940s and 1950s.-History:The term Film Noir was coined by...

/suspense

Suspense

Suspense is a feeling of uncertainty and anxiety about the outcome of certain actions, most often referring to an audience's perceptions in a dramatic work. Suspense is not exclusive to fiction, though. Suspense may operate in any situation where there is a lead-up to a big event or dramatic...

movie (with slasher

Slasher film

A slasher film is a type of horror film typically involving a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner, often with a cutting tool such as a knife or axe...

connections). It is directed by David A. Prior and stars Robert Davi

Robert Davi

Robert John Davi is an American actor and singer. He has played such roles as Vietnam veteran and Special Agent Johnson in Die Hard, the villainous Jake Fratelli in The Goonies, and Al Torres in Showgirls...

, Michael Ironside

Michael Ironside

Michael Ironside is a Canadian-born actor. He has also worked as a voice actor, producer, film director, and screenwriter in movie and television series in various Canadian and American productions. He is best known for playing villains and "tough guy" heroes, though he has also portrayed...

, John Amos

John Amos

John Amos is an American actor and former football player. His television work includes roles in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Good Times, the miniseries Roots, and a recurring role in The West Wing. He has also appeared on Broadway and in numerous motion pictures in a career that spans four decades...

, Mike Starr

Mike Starr (actor)

Michael "Mike" Starr is an American actor. Starr is notable for his large size, standing 6 ft 3 1/2 in , and has typically been typecast as thugs or henchmen....

, Lesley-Anne Down

Lesley-Anne Down

Lesley-Anne Down is a British film and television actress, former model and singer.Down achieved fame as Georgina Worsley in the ITV drama series Upstairs, Downstairs...

and Mickey Jones

Mickey Jones

Mickey Jones is an American musician and actor.-Early life:Jones was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Frances Marie and Fred Edward Jones...

Plot summary

Veteran cop Mike Turner (Robert Davi

Robert Davi

) is brought in to help solve a string of baffling satanic

Satanism

Satanism is a group of religions that is composed of a diverse number of ideological and philosophical beliefs and social phenomena. Their shared feature include symbolic association with, admiration for the character of, and even veneration of Satan or similar rebellious, promethean, and...

homicides. He soon finds himself along with Capt. Hodges (John Amos

John Amos

) seeking to catch a murderous psycho called Bishop (Michael Ironside

Michael Ironside

) who's gone on a killing spree during New Orleans' Mardi Gras. Only problem is that this killer has lost his soul to the devil and is no longer human... but a seemingly indestructible demonic being, intent on destroying the lives of everyone around Mike; and shall not stop until he has cost Mike not just his life... but his soul.

Cast

Cast
Actor / Actress	Character
Robert Davi Robert Davi Robert John Davi is an American actor and singer. He has played such roles as Vietnam veteran and Special Agent Johnson in Die Hard, the villainous Jake Fratelli in The Goonies, and Al Torres in Showgirls...	Mike Turner
Michael Ironside Michael Ironside Michael Ironside is a Canadian-born actor. He has also worked as a voice actor, producer, film director, and screenwriter in movie and television series in various Canadian and American productions. He is best known for playing villains and "tough guy" heroes, though he has also portrayed...	Bishop
John Amos John Amos John Amos is an American actor and former football player. His television work includes roles in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Good Times, the miniseries Roots, and a recurring role in The West Wing. He has also appeared on Broadway and in numerous motion pictures in a career that spans four decades...	Capt. Hodges
Mike Starr Mike Starr (actor) Michael "Mike" Starr is an American actor. Starr is notable for his large size, standing 6 ft 3 1/2 in , and has typically been typecast as thugs or henchmen....	Det. Williams
Mickey Jones Mickey Jones Mickey Jones is an American musician and actor.-Early life:Jones was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Frances Marie and Fred Edward Jones...	Bartender
Lesley-Anne Down Lesley-Anne Down Lesley-Anne Down is a British film and television actress, former model and singer.Down achieved fame as Georgina Worsley in the ITV drama series Upstairs, Downstairs...	Christine Turner
Lydie Denier Lydie Denier Lydie Denier is a model and actress. She has appeared in several roles in numerous TV series and films.-Biography:...	Valerie
Margaret Avery Margaret Avery Margaret Avery is an American actress and singer. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Shug in The Color Purple .-Early life:...	Miss Sadie
Lillian Lehman Lillian Lehman Lillian Lehman is an American actress most notably recognized from her recurring role as Lena Hart in NBC's soap opera Sunset Beach, and as Dr. Joyce Meadows on ABC's General Hospital. Other roles include various guest roles on TV, as well as a starring role in Tenafly and Fay...	Mrs. Hodges
Jack Forcinito (as Jack Verell)	Stevens
David Dahlgren	Johnson
Earl Jarrett	Guard
Keri-Anne Bilotta	Michelle
Butch Robbins	Driver
Michael J. Anderson Michael J. Anderson Michael J. Anderson is an American actor known for his roles as the Man from Another Place in David Lynch's television series Twin Peaks, the epilogue and prologue film of the series, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, and Samson Leonhart on the HBO series Carnivàle... (as Michael Anderson)	Police Officer
Lynwood Robinson	Police Officer
Portia Bennett Johnson	Dancer
John Neely John Neely John Neely, born Chicago, January 29, 1930; died October 8, 1994 in Richton Park, Illinois, was a jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger.A member of King Fleming's Quintette which recorded for the Chicago-based Blue Lake label in early 1954, he had played with Clifford Jordan in 1949.In 1960, Neely...	Face in the Fire
Douglas Harter(as Doug Harter)	Face in the Fire
Mario Opinato	Face in the Fire

Critical reaction

Reviewers in this genre very often focus on numbers. The numbers of people killed; The numbers of exposed body parts; The number of explosions; are all very important aspects of the review of a low budget action picture. But some reviewers demand more. El Juan Shatzer of Bloodtype Online was disappointed that the talented cast was wasted on a tepid script and flat direction by David A. Prior. None of those shortcomings prevented Joe Bob Briggs from recommending it

Plot summary

Cast

Critical reaction

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