Born of Fire (1983)
I’ve gone back into the 1900s for a movie for tonight. It’s Born of Fire, a film that can just be described as rather weird and seriously un-fulfilling. Peter Firth and Suzan Crowley star in this tale of a musician who is approached by a woman at one of his concerts. She “knows” he’s hearing the same eerie music she is. He needs to go home to see his mother, she gives him a ride. His mother dies, she attends the funeral. She goes home and while driving hears about a volcano erupting in Turkey and “sees” someone attacking her car, so she crashes. She goes home drinks, a black cat is scared of her, she gets a call from Paul, the flutist who she met a couple of days before and he wants to know if she heard about the volcano eruption. She says she’s cold and is going to take a bath but he should come over, she’ll leave the house unlocked. He arrives, she’s standing in front of the tub just staring — she’s seen an image of a dead woman floating in her tub. He tells her she’s cold and puts her in the bath. She tells him he must go to Turkey and find THE MASTER MUSICIAN. She’s back at her observatory job trying to convince her superiors that the eclipse a few days earlier cause the volcano eruption in Turkey. She leaves to prove it. Meanwhile, Paul is looking through ruins and caves to find the master musician, and rounding the corner there she is, staring at the volcano (no instruments with her so that she can verify her claim). She seduces Paul later and a few days later dies giving birth? While a naked cave dweller who shoots fire out of his eyes lurks around them. In the end Paul must save the world by sitting in a circular pool and outplay the crazy master musician on his musical instrument (dueling banjos anyone?).
Anyway, there you have it. Weird! A waste of an evening. The only reason you may want to watch this is to catch some glimpses of Suzan Crowley naked, its the only redeeming thing in here. Oh yes, and this is a horror movie, just fyi on that.
Rated UR. 84 minutes (1 hour 24 minutes). No profanity – very little dialog actually. Nudity – total female nudity and a naked man in the cave who shows everything, except that his artificially wrinkled skin is probably a skin suit so you may just be seeing fake junk – I don’t know, I didn’t look to make sure. Have at it if you want.
