# Le premier pouvoir (1990)

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**Original title**: *The First Power*
**Runtime**: 98 min
**Genres**: Crime, Thriller, Horror
**Directed by**: Robert Resnikoff
**Written by**: Robert Resnikoff
**Starring**: Lou Diamond Phillips, Tracy Griffith, Jeff Kober, Mykelti Williamson, Dennis Lipscomb, Carmen Argenziano

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Fog curls around palm trees at dusk. An exorcised knife reappears at every fresh crime scene.  
Detective and psychic track a killer who rises from ashes, slips through shadows, wears other men’s faces.  
Sits sideways in the Venn diagram of Exorcist fever and Friday the 13th fatigue.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult, dread, paranoid

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