The Fallen Ones (2005) - The Latest Scifi Channel Flick

[nobody]

The Plot: An archaeologist finds a 42 foot tall mummy and has to stop a fallen angel from reviving it. It sounds like a winner to me.

I just saw the commercial for TFO on the Scifi Channel while watching Rollerball.

I can't imagine what I'd do with my free time if the Scifi Channel aired GOOD movies.

[DaveMunger]

Cool, I think that the title is a literal translation of "Nephilim", the giants from the beggining of Genesis chapter six.

[Foywonder]

From my Dread Central story about a month ago:

Either Casper Van Dien has one of the worst agents in Hollywood or his agent just hates him with a passion. Your agent getting you cast in both Dracula 3000 and Skeleton Man within the course of a year is either a sign of incompetence or malevolence. I don’t know which, but I do know Van Dien is certainly on a roll of late and not the kind of roll an actor wants to be on.

We’ll find out if Van Dien’s streak of starring in some of the absolute worst genre movies of our age continues come May 7th when the Sci-Fi Channel unwraps his latest offering entitled The Fallen Ones. If ever a movie title was a metaphor for someone’s career… But I will say this; The Fallen Ones does have a premise that at least sounds like it has potential.

"An ancient evil from a forgotten time is awakened when archaeologist Matt Fletcher unexpectedly uncovers the mummified remains of a long dead warrior.
More shockingly bizarre, the mummy is over 40 feet tall...

He is one of the giants of legendary evil described in the Bible--the vile children of Fallen Angels and human beings, feared by mankind and despised by God, who with one great flood, wiped them from the face of the earth. He alone was hidden deep in an underground chamber awaiting the signal that would herald his return.

That time has come.

Violence and tragedy shroud a mysterious dig site as one by one the workers are attacked by a secret sect that has worshipped and sheltered the mummy for thousands of years.

Raphael Ammon, a dark and powerful man, is brought in to protect the dig site and its workers, but all-too-soon, it's apparent that Ammon himself is the worst threat of all. He is an angel, once called Ammon, The Destroyer, who has walked the earth for thousands of years. Prophecy dictated that Ammon would fall from power until the hand of man revealed the mummified body of his son.

Now, the prophecy has come to pass.

Desecrating divine will, Ammon reanimates the giant mummified remains of his son, spreading unimaginable terror once more.

While battling the giant, and in a race against time, Matt and his friends must stop Ammon before he can again take a human bride, bringing about a new age of the giants...and a reign of tyranny."

Okay, I admit I am intrigued, not only with the premise but with the very prospect of seeing Casper Van Dien wage immortal combat with a 40-foot mummy. It doesn’t hurt that his co-stars and potential giant mummy fighting allies will include Robert "Hart to Hart" Wagner and Tom "Happy Days' Mr. Cunningham" Bosley.

However, I’m not holding out much hope for the film seeing as how it comes from the writer/director of Frost: Portrait of a Vampire, and if you’ve read my review of that film, then you know I rate it amongst the worst movies I’ve ever endured in my entire existence. On the other hand, it’s hard to imagine the movie could actually be worse, so I suppose there’s no place to go but up.

We’ll all get to find out together whether Casper Van Dien can save Heaven and Earth from a giant mummy and a horny fallen angel looking to bring about Armageddon when The Fallen Ones premieres on the Sci-Fi Channel on Saturday, May 7th at 9PM EST and repeats again four hours later.

Also coming in June on Sci-Fi:

HAMMERHEAD: SHARK FRENZY -  The original title for the project was SHARKMAN, but I guess they wanted to make sure to distinguish their man-shark from Peter Benchley's WHITE SHARK by making it a half-man/half-Hammerhead shark. I can only speculate because there's virtually no info on the actual look of the creature but logic dictates that the title HAMMERHEAD means it's a Hammerhead sharkman, otherwise the title make zero sense.The plot revolves around a mad scientist performing illegal stem cell research involving the transfer of shark cells into human test subject culminating in the spawning of the film's title character. And who's playing the mad scientist? Why it's none other than Dr. Herbert West himself, Jeffrey Combs. Joining him are Larva's William Forsythe and soap opera vixen Hunter Tylo, who in a recent online interview described HAMMERHEAD as having "a cross between TOMB RAIDER and PREDATOR feel to it." Ummm...yeah.

AND...

NATURE UNLEASHED: TORNADO - I'm sure you can figure out on your own what that one is about.

[Mr Hockstatter]

I'll give Sci-Fi another chance as soon as they send one of their programming execs. over to my house to personally apologize for that putrid Man-Thing the other night.  

Oh, okay, I'll suppose I'll give Casper and his 40 foot mummy a chance.  I mean, with a premise like that it's hard to even imagine how it could be bad.  

Oh wait... deja vu...

[trekgeezer]

The week after this movie, we get another ride to the Earth's core with Luke Perry and Michael Dorn  (sans his Klingon makeup) in Descent.  Yet another 'gripping underground adventure.

Check the tag line, "When the world goes up in flames, they have nowhere to go but down."

As my daughter said when we were watching the Chupacabra movie "Who writes this stuff?"

I think a taste for cheese is a prerequisite for posting on this board.

Oh and here the Official The Fallen Ones website.