Joe Cornet is Cole, a gunman who rides into the town of Sudden with a back full of bullets.
They’ve been put there courtesy of The Preacher (Curt Lambert), who talks fire and brimstone, but isn’t above robbing and killing to get what he wants.
And what both men want is a stash of gold hidden immediately after Appamatox by a secret society hoping to launch a second Civil War.
Cole figures that gold will set he and his feisty lover Mattie (Dianne Renee) up for life.
As for Mattie, she’s more concerned about Cole’s safety than the gold.
The key to finding the gold is a map torn in two. And the pieces of that map are in the hands of the two widows of the late and bigamous Col. Jacoby.
Joe Cornet as Cole, facing a vengeance seeking one-armed gunman in A Prayer for the Damned (2018)
Curt Lambert as The Preacher who delivers his own fire and brimstone in A Prayer for the Damned (2018)
Review:
The film opens with Dr. July Harrigan talking Cole’s ear off as he plucks bullets from his back. Okay, you figure, that’s just part of the doctor’s character.
Nope. These characters talk and talk and talk some more while very little ever happens. They might be talking to cover the fact that the film was made on a shoestring budget.
Lambert overacts in the villain’s role, and not in a good or memorable way. Cornet’s laid-back approach to his part is even less memorable.
The film does come complete with a neat final kill and a nice twist at the end, but that can’t salvage 90 minutes of boredom.
Dianne Renee as Mattie, dealing with a drunken card player in A Prayer for the Damned (2018)
James Henderson as Dr. July Harrigan updating the sheriff on a wounded gunman in A Prayer for the Damned (2018)
Directed by:
Joe Cornet
Cast:
Dianne Renee … Mattie
Joe Cornet … Cole
Curt Lambert … The Preacher
Buddy Clements … Sheriff Duncan
James Henderson … Dr. July Harrigan
Vitta Quinn … Sadie Jacoby
Lisa Race … Bonnie Jacoby
Robert Coffie … The Loner
Petra Van De Hey … Hostage
Aryn Rozelle … Prostitute
Peter Menyhart … Charlie
Lloyd Noel … Town drunk
Runtime: 94 min.
Buddy Clements as Sheriff Duncan watching for strangers in Sudden in A Prayer for the Damned (2018)
Robert Coffie as The Loner, wary of strangers and weary of life in A Prayer for the Damned (2018)
Memorable lines:
Mattie: “I can’t abide a man that underestimates me.”
Mattie. of laudanum: “They say that’s habit forming.”
Cole: “Don’t worry, I’ve got enough bad habits already. I can’t afford one more.”
Sheriff Duncan of Cole: “That is one determined crazy ass cowboy.”
Cole: “I guess how we conduct ourselves in the present holds the secret to our future.”
The Loner: “You said a mouth full there, Slim.”
Lisa Race as Bonnie Jacoby, owner of half a map to hidden gold in A Prayer for the Damned (2018)
Vitta Quinn as Sadie Jacoby, owner of the other half of the map to hidden gold in A Prayer for the Damned (2018)
Curt Lambert as The Preacher and Joe Cornet as Cole meet for an unhappy reunion in A Prayer for the Damned (2018)
Curt Lambert as an unrepentant Preacher with Dianne Renee as Mattie in A Prayer for the Damned (2018)
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