SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Warren Kwek Oh my goodness! I've not seen the most silliest show on Earth. It was so predictable. It's like "Here I come to rip out your heart!" and then "Oh, no!". You get what I mean? It was simply stupid. My friend paid RM12.90 for the original DVD, thinking it will be good. Boy, were we wrong! Oh and by the way, the lines were so corny and lame. It was a miracle I made it out fine.But I have to say. The sources for rituals, witchcraft, fallen angels etc. of the movie was good. That compelled me but other than that, NOT AT ALL! Readers, do not watch this movie. You'll thank me, trust me. You haver no idea how speechless I am right now.

greatayahala OK, if you didn't find this movie downright hilarious and awesome, you are probably stoic and annoying. Your IQ is probably very low, because even my dog thought this movie rocked. It is not only funny, but it is clearly not mean tot be taken seriously. If the writer intended it to be serious... Then that's even funnier. Life just keeps getting better. Anyways, I recommend this movie to everyone. I saw it a long time ago it was so great. Man I can't wait to see it again. Apparently my comment must have 10 lines of text, so I will elaborate. A young woman and male find an awesome Talisman lying around. They then are embarked on a journey to stop the evil that was all along hidden within the talisman. There is betrayal, oh yes, and a school, oh yes, a private school. A private school with fabulous school uniforms. There is a guy who looks half-Asian. There is a hot teacher. The list doesn't end there. There is also the evil itself. Which is taking lives for it's plan of ultimate world demise. I suppose I have reached my ten lines of text. I will leave you with a few descriptive words that I would use to describe this movie:Awesome, Hilarious, Amusing, Entertaining, Not Scary, The opposite of Horror, Worth all the time I put into watching it, Worth the time I spent looking it up, Intuiging, Exciting, etc.

slayrrr666 `Talisman' has to be one of David DeCouteau's unseen masterpieces, as he manages to turn a cliché storyline into a movie that has to rank as a Full Moon type film.**SPOILERS**In a strange European college, a man is killed by a strange demon (Costi Barbulescu) with glowing eyes. A young man, Elias (Billy Parish) meets up with Jacob (Walter Jones) who shows him around. Immediately, trouble starts in the form of Burke. (Jason Adelman) The headmistress, Miss Greynitz, (Oana Stefanescu) rules the school with an iron fist, keeping everyone there in a state of fear. Wanting to relieve some tension, Elias takes a walk, against Burke's better judgment, and wanders into the library. There, he finds Miss Greynitz's daughter, Lilia. (Ilinca Goia) She seems afraid of her mother, who makes her do weird things at night. Lilia is involved in weird satanic rituals with the same demon, and kills two of Burke's friends. The next morning, Elias does some investigating on the campus and begins to unravel the mystery of how he came to the same place where his supposedly insane uncle was working. Burke comes into control of the school and tries to rape Lilia, but the demon comes to protect her. Burke and another friend are killed. Elias sees this, and Miss Greynitz catches him. The next day, on the eve of the new millennium, Elias digs more into the back history of what brought him to the college. Convinced now that Lilia is in danger, he finds out that he is wrong. He finds five of the seven sacrifices needed to bring out the apocalypse. As midnight nears, Jacob becomes the sixth and Lilia reveals herself as the one from whom sacred books say will bring about the end of days. Lilia makes a proposition to Elias: take her hand as second in command or be burned like the rest of humanity. The Good News: `Talisman' is one of the few films that clocks in at less than an hour long, but an awful lot happens in that short amount of time. There is a lot of mystery wrung out of this that it captivates what little attention one could have given to this movie. The storyline is pretty clever, giving the viewer the feeling that anything can go wrong. Making the least likely person the head of the whole apocalyptic plan was a bit of a stretch to believe thinking about afterward, but it keeps the viewer hooked into thinking anything. The apocalyptic movie was done quite often in the late 90's, with `End of Days,' `The Minion,' and this one coming out within several months of each other. In those three, `End of Days' is the one to see, with this one edging out the dull Dolph Lundgren flick.The Bad News: This movie was way too short! I own full CD's that are longer than this movie. That's an embarrassment right there. There is also no suspense whatsoever. There were plenty of opportunities to provide some cheap thrills the way other Full Moon type films do. Instead, this film relies on having some supposedly scary demon with glowing eyes popping up sometime to kill people for a sacrificial ritual to give you scares. He never did, and his presence only made me yawn when he was on-screen. His power was entirely laughable, simply sticking his hand inside your body and pulling out your heart in one piece. Creative, but not effective. That statement could also describe this movie as a whole. I try to provide something positive about every film I review, and here I have by saying that it was creative. Unfortunately, that doesn't appeal only to the acting. Here, it is simply atrocious. It is so wooden and unemotional that High School drama plays have been livelier. No one seems capable of giving the film any energy, as it meanders on from one scene to the next. It misses several great opportunities to be a great film that another rewrite or ten on the script could have chiseled a great film out of this.The Final Verdict: While not one of the worst horror films ever made, `Talisman' is no classic either. There are so many things that could have gone wrong that could have easily been fixed by putting more heart into it. The movie is best viewed when in the complete and total fix of alcoholic beverages and several friends to simply ridicule it to make it more enjoyable.Rated R: Violence and some language.

nickjack This plays like a Bizarro-world version of a Women-in-Prison movie. You remember Bizarro world from Superman comic books and Seinfeld episodes: everything is like our earth, but in an imperfect (really whacked-out) way. In this case, the classic Reform School, which in our reality would be full of nubile young girls who get hosed down, is full of nubile young men. There is a food-fight in the dining hall, a lock-down and even a trustee character who apparently is coercing his roommates into providing him with um...companionship. But when the plot should head toward showers and/or a breakout, the inmates/students start getting sacrificed on the apocalyptic demonic altar in the basement and then... Well, it's never as seedy as one might hope, but you've got to give Charles Band credit for trying something different.