"This film had some cool ideas, but it also seemed that it had too many of them"

 

Lord of Illusions: During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult, who are waiting for the resurrection of their leader Nix. 13 years ago, Nix was calmed down by his best trainee Swann. In the meantime Swann is advanced to a popular illusionist like David Copperfield and is married to the charming Dorothea. She hires D'Amour to protect Swann against the evil cult members. A short time later Swann is killed by one of his own tricks and the occurrences are turning over, and it crackles between Dorothea and D'Amour.

 

Clive Barker is a great writer and I was surprised not to have seen Lord of Illusions before. This film had some cool ideas, but it also seemed that it had too many of them. Hellraiser was a pretty clean movie and did not side track so much, but Lord of Illusions tried to go in many different ways and it seemed messy. I liked the gore and the creativity, but I can understand why so many were dissapointed with this one.