Baal: The Storm-God
It is getting harder and harder to keep up with movies that are based on myths and legends from the ancient Near East (or at least claim to be based on such myths and legends). In addition to The Lost Treasure of Ugarit, we now have Baal: The Storm-God, which is a SciFi Channel original movie. I have only seen the preview once, and the SciFi Channel has only this short description: “When an archaeologist releases and ancient god from captivity, he unleashes the ultimate storm on Earth.” What’s next? Horus and Seth’s Excellent Adventure?
The premier is this Saturday, September 13, at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. I have my DVR set to record it, and I will try to get a review of it up sometime next week (unless it is so bad that I simply can’t force myself to watch all of it).
On September 10th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Wow. When I saw that Lexi Doig was staring, I expected to see Michael Shanks (as Dr. Daniel Jackson) behind her.
Are Sci-fi original movies ever any good?
On September 13th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Isn’t that Jeremy London I see in that movie? He’s the guy who starred in Basilisk: The Serpent King. Lots of colonated titles!
On September 13th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Not to bad a movie if you don’t look too closely at some of the details. It’s entertainment, not a history lesson.
On November 12th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
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