A unique combination of detective story, demonic horror, and action movie (in that order), Through the Fire (1988) is a Texas-set near-masterpiece of tension and thrills.
Some of your universe's critics fail to appreciate one-time director Gary Marcum's magnum opus. For example, reviewer poolandrews writes bluntly, "Through the Fire is a throughly wretched piece of film-making, it has no redeeming features whatsoever & is total crap from start to finish." Reviewer kannibalcorpsegrinder writes eloquently, "This here was just utterly pitiful and plain bad." And reviewer BA_Harrison writes loquaciously, "Through the Fire is disappointing on almost every level, with a sloppy script, poor direction, choppy editing and awful acting resulting in a meandering and totally baffling experience."
Read on for an accurate appreciation of Through the Fire...