Cast: Greg Serano (Brother Tomas),Gina Ravera (Det. Rachel Dressler), Mary Mara (Munkar), Rebecca Harrell (Nakir), William B. Davis (Father Michael), Antonio Cupo (Brother Gregory), Jay Brazeau (Abbot), Simon Wong (Wade), Kris Pope (Brother Rafael), David Thomson (Vince).

Director: Joshua Butler

Based on a story by Clive Barker

The Story: Brother Tomas lives in a monastery in the middle of the XVIII century, along with his brother, Gregory (ok, being a brother in a monastery is a common thing, but this time it's the blood type). While Gregory is a devoted monk, Tomas just isn't the right kind of person for that position (he has too many flaws). Anyway, the day when Father Michael arrives at the monastery, bringing something from the Pope himself, Tomas decides to finally investigate the mysterious deposit that guards the Damasco Order deepest secret. So he convinces his brother (who is reluctant but easily convinced, and also, luckily, has the key of the deposit) to open the door for him. Inside, in a chest, they find a ball with the image of two women, that Tomas, for some reason that probably involves a total lacking of artistic spirit and good taste, considers a masterpiece.
Suddenly, the ball eats (literally) Gregory's arms, and start to grow, turning into two (very pale) women, who escape through other artifact held in the deposit: the Wheel of Time (Wait, where did I see that before?), an artifact that allows time travel. Trying to prevent their escape, Tomas takes a dagger that has fallen from the ball and it burns his hand. Right after the two women escape, the abbot and Father Tomas arrive.
The next mooring, Gregory is about to die and Tomas leaves the monastery (that's a good brother if I've ever seen one). The Abbot and Father Michael try to convince him to follow the women (the “succubae”) through the wheel, because the dagger has marked him as the chosen by God. But he refuses, until his brother dies. In that moment, he decides to travel (it must be something in the blood that makes them so weak willed).
Using the Wheel, Tomas arrives to modern day Seattle (by the way, why would they arrive to Seattle if the Wheel is in the monastery?) and throws up (hey, you would throw up too after spinning your way through two centuries). After acting confused by the city for something like fifteen seconds, Tomas bumps into the most friendly city dweller in the world, who gives him a ride to the place where, according to the dagger, the succubae are. Of course, when Tomas arrives, the succubae have already left, leaving behind a dead man. And, along with Tomas come the police, who accuse him of the murder.
And, in this way, the story keeps boring on... I mean, going on, through several common places. Tomas meets a female police detective that believes in him, he escapes from the police, one of the succubus get pregnant, Tomas remembers to act confused by technology once in a while, they all end up in the monastery, the succubus has its child and it's betrayed by her sister, big final battle, blah, blah, blah.

The Good Points: Arrrgh!!! Who gives me these movies to review? It must be somebody that hates me. (Of course, I choose the movies, so I can't really complain). Let's see some good points. The ambiance in the XVIII century monastery is pretty good. There are no cars, computers or goths. And the city also looks like a city. Of course, that probably was easy to accomplish.
The performance of the actresses playing the succubus is ok. Nothing spectacular, but gets the desired results.

The Bad Points: Tomas and Gregory could get an award for less convincing performance by any actor attacked by a ball that is actually two succubae. Totally pathetic.
Why nobody thought of, instead going to the future and killing the succubae, going back in time an hour or so and keeping Tomas from taking the ball in the first place?
The story is obvious, and has some unexplainable things, like why the succubae seem to be able to talk well sometimes and why other times they speak worse than Yoda.
The FX probably cost something like 2 dollars. They aren't really bad, but they are too obvious. It's like they are highlighting them.
In the end, everybody seems to forget about the succubus' child. Writers should take notes.

Greatest Moment: The face of Tomas while traveling through time in the Wheel. Totally hilarious.

Stupidest Moment: The succubae take Tomas prisoner and, instead of eating him right away, they leave him for later. Duh, he escapes.
Tomas is hit by one of the succubus. The Detective manages to hurt the other one, and makes an escape path. Tomas, who has been lying on the floor for a minute or so, totally stunned by the hit, just stands up and starts running. Talk about fast recovery.

All in all: I need to get a rating system, so I can give twos and ones to this movie.