Prophet of Evil

Last week Pete and I watched a DVD called Prophet of Evil starring Brian Dennehy and William Devane. For some reason we own this DVD. I think Pete got it for free at work. (If you know where he works, you can understand why they wouldn't want that lying around his workplace. But you also might be confused, as I am, if you try to imagine the circumstances where they were passing this DVD out to employees.) Anyway it was a made-for-tv movie about a real-life polygamist killer named Ervil LeBaron (played by Dennehy). We were watching it and one of Ervil's followers/thugs looked really familiar. He looked like the guy on Seinfeld who talked in a woman's voice. So I looked him up on IMBD and indeed it was the same guy. So after we finished Prophet of Evil we watched the episode he was in. Those of you who watch Seinfeld, you will recall this is the episode where this man was known as the "high talker," Dan, and Elaine called him on the phone and she thought he was her woman friend (the high talker's girlfriend) and she was like, "were you flirting with Jerry?" and he was like "what!"

Then we watched an episode I'd never seen before, called The Doodle. It was one of the best evenings ever.

Speaking of people in Prophet of Evil who are in other films or television, Jackie Earle Haley also played a killer/disciple. About every third time he was onscreen, I would say, "That's the guy who played Kelly Leak in the Bad News Bears!" or "It's the pedophile from Little Children". No matter how many times I made these statements, I could not impress Pete enough to comment. He would just nod. The fact that he wouldn't comment made me want to say these things more, more! What I really wanted was an "oh yeah!" Finally towards the end of the movie, I said, "He was also in Breaking Away." This grand finale finally got an "oh" out of Pete! I wonder what Pete's thought processes were during this time?

One of the weirdest scenes in Prophet of Evil was when William Devane, who was playing the cop seeking to put Ervil behind bars for his crimes, was eating breakfast at home with his family. His two grade school kids were talking to each other really loudly and saying stuff like, WHAT DID YOU DO AT SCHOOL YESTERDAY? and WHAT DID YOU DO AT SCHOOL YESTERDAY? And then William Devane was like, Stop children! And then he was like, put one hand on the opposite shoulder. Now put the other hand on the opposite shoulder. Now put your hands over your mouth. Now keep them that way!

And then the mom of the family, played by Dee Wallace Stone, said, "I'm pregnant!"