Super Slutty Movies: "Lillith" (2019)

A sassy sex demon is on the loose at a college campus — and you KNOW what that means

By: Toxicka Shock
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There really aren't THAT many movies about succubi out there. Certainly, the number of films about soul-devouring sex demons are just a fraction of the number of genre flicks about vampires and werewolves and honestly, that's a shame. And even amongst the relatively paltry set of genre movies about succubi, there really isn't anything approaching a magnum opus, if you will — sorry, but you just can't covince me that "Jennifer's Body" is a subgenre-defining masterpiece on par with "The Howling" or "Fright Night."

To be blunt, most succubi-themed movies out there are pretty terrible. I mean, have you ever seen "Succubus: Hell-Bent" or "Girlfriend From Hell" before? Absolutely dreadful. Periodically you get a vignette movie like "V/H/S" that tells a great mini-story about succubi, but the full-length truly great succubi movie remains ever-elusive.

Wel, 2019's "Lillith" isn't a great succubus movie. But compared to MOST horndog no-budget horror movies released in the late 2010s, it isn't too bad. In fact, at times it's a pretty funny and engaging little creature feature — albeit, one that isn't without some very big flaws.

That's not to say it's a film without a few decent moments, though. And if you've got a 90-minute block freed up sometime, and you don't feel like doing anything productive, you could definitely watch far worse within the Tubi-verse.

Because this movie has never heard the word "subtle" before, the opening scene literally entails a professor giving college students a primer on demonology.

From there we watch our protagonist Jen walk in on her boyfriend boning some random blonde bimbo. She laments losing "five fuckin' years" of her life dating his sorry ass. She slaps him for his cheating ways, because nothing says "female empowerment" quite like impulsive displays of simple battery.

Naturally, our heartbroken heroine takes refuge in the not-all-that-comforting breakup advice from her nerdy/crypto-Wiccan classmates. So she flips through a couple of tarot cards while sucking down some brewskis and she wishes that something hurts her ex-boyfriend the way he hurt her, and hey, what do you know, it's time for the professor to give us a quick lesson on what succubi are. What are the odds?

The guy deserves to have his soul sucked out for his horrific kissing technique alone!

So Jen's best friend lets her know she found a summoning spell to make a demon chase after her ex and give him the paranormal equivalent of crabs. Of course, for the spell to work she needs an ample quantity of Jen's menstrual fluid and a full moon to complete the ceremony.

They go through the ritual, of course, and nothing seems to happen. Jen faints all of a sudden and then the ground where the summoning took place begins to quake. From the earthen sepulcher a REAL demon - who looks a LOT like Oola from "Star Wars" - emerges from the muck. Hey, it looks like the spell worked after all. You can tell because the first thing the demoness does is barf up one of Jen's used tampons.

Then Jen's friend talks to her girlfriend, who says she once summoned a demon before and it killed her best friend. Huh, you kinda' think you'd want to tell your romantic partner about that kinda' thing pretty early on in the relationship, but I guess not.

So Jen is walking around campus when out of nowhere, this redheaded vamp in black lipstick waltzes past her. Of course, the mysterious ginger is Lillith, an honest to goodness succubus who's hellbent on royally screwing up her ex's life.

So Lillith goes on a date with Jen's ex and he's all turned on by how much she's eating French fries and hamburgers (no, seriously.) Of course, he quickly takes her back to his place so they can bump uglies and all  can say is that it MUST be great sex because the dude doesn't even realize his date is turning into a spinach green, horned monster mid-coitus. 

Now we get to the prerequisite demonic blowjob scene, complete with Lillith reminding her prey that "spitters are quitters." We then cut to a news report letting us know that Jena's ex was found brutally murdered, then Lillith shows up to introduce herself to Jen's geeky/pseudo-pagan pals. "Fucking and killing is kind of what I do," Lillith says, before we get a second-long scene of her LITERALLY breaking the ex-boyfriend's heart with her demonic grip.

Then the professor starts talking about "the whore of Babylon" from the Old Testament. Lillith sneaks into the lecture hall and impresses the teacher with her knowledge of the Book of Revalations, so of course, you know it's only a matter of time until he gets disembowled, too.

It's around this point that Jen and her friends realize that they MIGHT have something of a problem on their hands. Then there's a scene where Lil starts cruising the college bars looking for some fresh meat, and at one point she manages to rip a guy's mandible off with her demonic vagina because, apparently, he wasn't very good at performing cunnilingus.

When Jen and her pals find out that Lil is crashing a frat party, they decide that there's only one thing they can do to stop the succubus from embarking on a horn-dog holocaust; why, they're going to try to DRUG her with an Atavan-laced cocktail. So yes, it's a movie where the good guys employ date rape tactics to advance the plot.

Our heroes manage to temporarily restrain Lillith, then Jen's two lesbian friends get back together and they make out for a bit and oops, it's actually Lillith in disguise. Our token LGBT cast members end up getting held hostage, and yep, at least one of tem ends up getting her neck snapped like a disposable mook in a Steven Seagall movie. Oh, and the fate of the other lesbian? Well, the movie keeps it kinda' vague, but I'm pretty sure she got chewed to death. Well, that, or Lil strawberry jellied her to death, I suppose.

Thankfully Jen manages to find a secret book that, wouldn't you know it, tells her EXACTLY how to get rid of Lil once and for all. That leaves Jen's platonic guy friend (who obviously has a crush on her) as the only surviving cast mate. Lil takes the form of Jen and seduces him, naturally. Jen manages to make the save at the last possible second ... only for Lil to grab a steak knife and stab the poor guy a couple of times, after all. Jen then grabs the knife and stabs herself in the crotch, which I suppose is the only way to break the metaphysical link between herself and Lil. And since Lilith procedes to explode into a fountain of blood afterward, hey, I guess it really did the trick.

The movie closes out with the surviving guy friend talking to Jen at the hospital. He asks her if she would go out with him afterward and she tells him "fuck no," then the end credits roll while a song about a "succu-bitch" plays in the background.

just because you're bedding an unholy demoness from hell doesn't mean you shouldn't practice saf sex, you know ...

I don't know if you got the same feeling, but "Lillith" felt a LOT like a parody of "It Follows" to me. It's a movie that had its tongue firmly implanted in its cheek, and I think anybody with a sense of humor (the real kind, not the smarmy ironic variety) can at least appreciate what it sought to do with the subgenre conventions. 

Per the IMDB, this remains the only feature film directed by Lee Esposito, who co-wrote "Lillith" alongside Luke Stannard (who doesn't have any other credits to his resume, it appears.) It would be great to talk about their respective backgrounds and how they came up with the idea for the film, but since the proverbial pickings of factoids on the web are slim to none, I suppose we'll just have to remain in the dark.

As for the cast, pretty much everybody involved with the picture is an unknown, starting with the actress portraying the titular character.

According to the IMDB, Savannah Whitten has primarily starred in TV productions, perhaps the most notable being a quickie for that one "reality" TV show "What Would You Do?"

Nor is there much listed on the resume of Nell Kessler, who played Jen. Her entire filmography consists of a mere six productions, of which two are short films, two are one-offs on ranom TV shows and he other is a flick in post-production (as of April 2022, anyway.)

Pretty much the only recognizable face/name in the whole flick is Langston Fishburne, who played the college professor. Of course, considering his biggest role to daye was playing "Young Bill" in "Ant-Man and the Wasp," it's not like he's Tom Cruise or anything. But compared to the anonymity the shrouds the rest of the cast, he's practically an A-lister by default.

"Lillith" is a film with a lot of obvious shortcomings, but for the most part, it's a pretty fun movie with a lot of gore, a lot of skankiness and a few lines that are *almost* on the verge of being genuinely funny. It might get a little too self-reflexive for some viewers, but I don't think anyone can walk into a movie like this expecting a "pure" genre thriller.

You know exactly what you're walking into with a movie like this. And while you won't add it to your list of favorites, you probably won't flatout hate it, either - consider "Lillith" the straight-to-streaming equivalent of a better-than-expected-but-still-hardly-all-that-memorable one night stand, I suppose.

XOXO, TOXICKA