Heartland of Darkness (aka Blood Church)

[Available Nov. 8 on Blue-ray.] When a widowed, Chicago journalist (Dino Tripodis) moves to Ohio with his teenage daughter (Sharon Klopfenstein), buys a small-town newspaper, and quickly hires a seasoned reporter (Shanna Thomas) in Eric Swelstad's uninspired, lackluster, unoriginal, violent, predictable, 90-minute, 1992 thriller dominated by horrific acting, they investigate along with a reverend (John Dunleavy) a series of ritualistic murders involving a high school student (Kelly Barrett) and a businessman (Kirk Adler) by an intimidating, controlling, demonic priest (Nick Baldasare) and his satanic cult members, including a sexy schoolteacher (Linnea Quigley), the mayor (Sid Sullivan), the district attorney (Ralph Scott), the attorney general (Wesley Coleman), a secretary (Mary Alice Demas), and cashier (Mary Alice Warton), and eventually seek help from the governor (Dallas Dan Hessler) and the town sheriff (Lee Page).
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