Fear No Evil

Fear No Evil (1981)

Alexandria High… class of '81 - All the students are going to hell, except Andrew… he sent them there!

Brilliant and aloof teenager Andrew is always the butt of his classmates' jokes — but little do they know that he is actually the demon Lucifer. As the evil wells up within him, he avenges himself in acts of demonic murder and destruction. But his foe, the archangel Gabriel, has assumed the form of 18 year old student Julie.

Date of release
1981-01-19
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (47)
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
Horror
Director
Frank LaLoggia

Casting

Interesting facts

Fear No Evil is a 1981 American supernatural horror film directed by Frank LaLoggia in his feature directorial debut, and starring Stefan Arngrim, Elizabeth Hoffman, and Kathleen Rowe McAllen. Its plot involves a seventeen-year-old student in 1980 realizing that he is the Antichrist, and his subsequent battle with two female-incarnate archangels.

Production

LaLoggia and his cousin, Charles LaLoggia, secured $25,000 from local investors in 1978 for their own production company, and later accrued a further $550,000 to begin production of the film. Fear No Evil was shot in LaLoggia's hometown of Rochester, New York, with some scenes in Webster and Heart Island, in the late summer and fall of 1979 under the working title of Mark of the Beast. Additional photography occurred in Thousand Islands.

After the completion of principal photography, an additional $250,000 was needed to complete the film's special effects. Avco Embassy Pictures, who signed on to distribute the film, agreed to cover the post-production costs. Special effects creator Peter Kuran worked with his company Visual Concept Engineering for a total of four months to complete the film's final sequence.

After presenting three different cuts of the film to Avco Embassy, LaLoggia and production associate Donald P. Borchers reached "a fine compromise," which included the addition of numerous punk rock and new wave songs that were incorporated into the film's soundtrack. The film was officially completed in November 1980.

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