Defending himself, he inadvertently kills Miller, but Butterfield escapes. Investigating backstage, D'Amour is attacked by Butterfield and Miller. A new illusion goes wrong and Swann is killed on stage, stabbed by multiple swords. D'Amour agrees to investigate if Quaid's killers are targeting Phillip, and Dorothea invites him to his next magic show. Before he can leave Los Angeles, D'Amour is hired by Dorothea, who read about him in the newspaper story about Quaid. Philip Swann believes Quaid was killed by Nix's loyalists. Swann, now a famous stage illusionist, lives in a Beverly Hills mansion with his wife, Dorothea. He warns that the Puritan is coming, then dies. As he dies from multiple stab wounds, Quaid reads D'Amour's palm, seeing it is his destiny is to "walk the line between Heaven and Hell". During his investigation, D'Amour happens upon Quaid, now working as a fortune teller, being attacked by Butterfield and Ray Miller, a man possessing great strength. He accepts a case of insurance fraud in Los Angeles, hoping the experience will be akin to a paid vacation. Thirteen years later, in New York City, occult-specializing private detective Harry D'Amour has been shaken by an exorcism case. Swann fastens an ironwork mask over Nix's head in order to "bind" him and his power. Swann is attacked magically by Nix but the kidnapped girl shoots Nix through the heart with Swann's gun. In the confrontation, Nix's assistant, Butterfield, escapes. A group of former cult members, including Philip Swann and Caspar Quaid, arrive to stop him. Nix wields real magic and plans to sacrifice a girl, telling his followers he will save the world and grant them wisdom. In the Mojave Desert in 1982, a man named William Nix, also calling himself "The Puritan", has gathered a cult of disciples in an old house. The film met with mixed reception and no further live-action movies featuring Harry D'Amour were made. The story features D'Amour, who has had several experiences with the supernatural, embarking on an investigation involving a stage illusionist named Swann and a cult led by a sorcerer named Nix.Īlthough Clive Barker decided to keep a few story elements and the same principal characters from "The Last Illusion," he otherwise presented a new story for the movie and created a new villain, surprising several readers familiar with the original work. O'Connor, Famke Janssen and Daniel von Bargen. Other actors appearing in the film include Kevin J. Lord of Illusions is D'Amour's first onscreen appearance, with the character portrayed by actor Scott Bakula. The same story introduced Barker's occult detective hero Harry D'Amour, who later appeared in several prose stories and comic books. Lord of Illusions is a 1995 neo-noir supernatural horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, based on his own short story "The Last Illusion" published in 1985 in the anthology Books of Blood Volume 6.
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