Plot Summary
Former NYPD Police Detective Jericho Cane runs an elite security agency in New York City. Haunted by the murder of his wife and daughter, both killed in retaliation for his testimony against corrupt police officers, he considers suicide. Satan arrives on Earth and possesses an investment banker. The following day, Jericho and his close friend, Bobby Chicago, are assigned as private security for the banker. Jericho saves him from an assassination attempt by prophetic Vatican priest Thomas Aquinas, who warns of Satan’s return before being subdued. Driven to understand why he targeted the banker, Jericho and Bobby investigate Aquinas’s apartment, where they discover a photo of a young woman named Christine York.
Orphaned at a young age, Christine has been raised by disciples of Satan, including her carer Mabel, unaware that they are grooming her for their master. She experiences haunting visions of Satan having sex with her, though she believes them to be delusions. Two days later, Satanist violence has escalated across the city. Satan visits the hospitalized Aquinas and crucifies him before Jericho arrives to interrogate him. Carvings on Aquinas’s body lead Jericho to Christine. He and Bobby arrive at her home in time to save her from the Cardinal’s knights, who intend to kill her before Satan can take her.
Satan arrives and brutally kills Mabel for failing to secure Christine, and immolates Bobby by urinating a supernatural, highly flammable fluid onto the pavement, which runs along the ground and around Bobby’s feet before he ignites it, causing the flames to erupt upward instantly and engulf Bobby completely, burning him alive, seemingly killing him. Jericho and Christine take shelter in the church of Father Kovak, an acquaintance of Aquinas. Kovak explains that, every 1,000 years, Satan rises to Earth to impregnate a chosen woman—an event that will grant Satan dominion over Earth. Satan must conceive the child before midnight on December 31.
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Info & Stats
Director:
Peter Hyams
Writer:
Andrew W. Marlowe
Stars:
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney
Categories:
Action, Horror, Fantasy
Budget:
$100,000,000.00
Revenue:
$212,000,000.00
Age: RÂ Â |Â Â Duration: 2h 2m
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