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Black Easter (1995)
Director: Ben Bolt
Cast: Trevor Eve, Shaun Dingwall, Bruce Myers, Murray Ewan
6.8Runtime95 min
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Black Easter is a 1995 sci-fi thriller TV movie directed by Ben Bolt. The film received a respectable IMDb rating of 6.8/10, indicating generally positive audience reception. Critical reviews and awards recognition are not widely available for this lesser-known television production.
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Fans of suspenseful science fiction thrillers directed by Ben Bolt will appreciate the compelling, future-set story of 1995's Black Easter. The film stars Trevor Eve as a detective investigating a mysterious murder, which leads him on a hazardous search for the truth amid growing political tensions and refugee crises.
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Black Easter is a fantasy novel by American writer James Blish, in which an arms dealer hires a black magician to unleash all the demons of Hell on Earth for a single day. The novel initially depicts the assassination of a Governor of California by a black magician working as a contract killer. The same magician is then hired to release every demon in Hell for a brief time period. However, the demons cannot actually be returned to Hell by the end of the novel. Their traditional opponent, God, has already retired and nobody else can compel them to return to Hell.
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