The Eighteenth Angel
"Satan will no longer be beast... but beauty!" That declaration comes  early inThe Eighteenth Angel, signaling the kind of horror movie we're  in for: thick and cheesy. When that line (and others like it) is uttered by mad  monk Maximilian Schell, it's even creamier. Schell is ushering in the return of  the Antichrist by genetically engineering Satan's minions, but he needs the  transplanted faces of beautiful humans to complete the task. Enter Rachael Leigh  Cook (pre-She's All That), who travels with dad Christopher McDonald to  Italy, perilously close to Schell's monastery-laboratory. The movie has lots ofOmen- style devilry, and it's somehow reassuring to seeOmenscreenwriter David Seltzer still flogging the old 666 gimmick. The genre has its  kicks, but the execution here is pretty clumsy, and Cook is a clueless heroine.  For pure camp value, however, Maximilian Schell approaches  Rod-Steiger-Amityville-Horrorstatus.--Robert Horton