Invisible Enemies begins in 2024 (hey, that’s just a few days away!) with Jackson (played in the future by Jan Van Sickle) relating a flashback to his son. You see, back in his college days, Jackson (played in his youth by Jason Guess) stumbled upon an old pair of glasses while walking around campus. When he put the glasses on, he found he could see into other people’s lives (he mostly just sees them arguing and generally acting shitty to other people). Eventually, he learned the glasses belonged to none other than the Devil himself (who talks in a Freddy Krueger voice). Naturally, the Devil goes after his hard-partying sister and it’s up to Jackson to save her.
This isn’t great by any stretch of the imagination, but I liked the ‘90s aesthetic. The sight of ladies wearing combat boots with sundresses and black choker necklaces just does something to me, I guess. Even though the set-up is promising, things get real Jesus-y, real quick. Not that it matters much. I mean, you’re talking to the guy who watched the whole Thief in the Night tetralogy a few months ago for this column.
The opening is solid, but Invisible Enemies ultimately winds up feeling like something you’d be forced to watch at a church youth group lock-in. Fortunately, it’s short (thirty-seven minutes), moves at an acceptable pace, and doesn’t wear out its welcome. (It almost feels like a pilot for a Christian horror TV series that didn’t get picked up.) At least the scenes of the translucent Devil tormenting the sister at a rave are good for a laugh.
Van Sickle gets the best line of the movie when he describes his life as a “Slow-motion swan dive into the toilet”. That doesn’t exactly describe the movie, thankfully. Just don’t expect anything close to being “good” though.
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