YMMV / Cast a Deadly Spell

• Best Known for the Fanservice: Plenty of it, given all the very sexy ladies we see, with the standout being Connie played by Julianne Moore. Her classy, shiny green dress and ultimate reveal as the film's resident Femme Fatale make this the closest Moore's come to playing another deliciously sultry redhead in green. Hell, the film noir setting evokes said redhead's appearance in a certain cartoon. Very appropriate.
• Complete Monster: The Big Bad and his Dragon:
  • The wealthy Amos Hackshaw who plans to summon the Outer Gods so he can sell out his world for them to turn into "a world of the unburied dead" in exchange for godhood. To do this, Hackshaw focuses decades of his life, including marriage and having a child, to making sure he has the perfect circumstances for the ceremony. Using the masquerade of being an overprotective dad to keep his daughter a suitable Virgin Sacrifice, Hackshaw then goes about acquiring the Necronomicon. After the book is stolen to prevent the apocalypse, Hackshaw simultaneously hires private eye Phil Lovecraft and mob boss Harry Bordon, the latter of whom he promised lordship over the post-apocalyptic world, to retrieve it. Creating a gargoyle servant to tail Lovecraft, Hackshaw ends up using the creature to eliminate the book's thief and a few other loose ends. After Borden captures Lovecraft, Hackshaw decides that he should be Forced to Watch as Hackshaw offers his own daughter in sacrifice to Yog-Sothoth.
  • Harry Bordon, the ex-partner of detective Lovecraft and a mobster and co-conspirator of the Big Bad, introduces himself having his own right-hand-man, Tugwell, cut apart a man named Locksteader who brings him a phony copy of the Necronomicon apart by means of a whirlwind of paper. Bordon has Tugwell pursue and murder Lovecraft once he becomes an obstacle, regardless of the collateral damage, and simply has his zombie bodyguard drown Tugwell once it's revealed Tugwell murdered Locksteader before he could impart vital information. Bordon gloatingly reveals in the climax he's sold out the entire world to Hackshaw, willingly dooming the entire human race to a horrible extinction at the hands of the Old Ones to rule over the remainder as an immortal.