A refugee from Hell

I’ve never been much of a Clive Barker fan, so I never saw “Lord of Illusions” when it came out. It’s been playing on our cable though, so we gave it a try. Despite Leonard Maltin’s half-hearted endorsement (“Intelligent thriller […] better than the usual genre fare, but it’s thinly plotted, and condescends slightly to its audience”) it was entertaining enough and I never saw any condescension. It stars “Quantum Jump”-er and “Star Trek Enterprise” captain Scott Bakula as a out-of-his league