Wes Craven directs Robert Urich, Joanna Cassidy and Susan Lucci in this supernatural conspiracy movie where everyone who works at a tech company signs their families up as dedicated members to an evil health spa.

Pre-internet I always used to be fascinated by letters to film magazines where people would try to find the name of half remembered movies. They watched it late night and fell asleep or the VHS kept taping the next movie or they missed the title card. The details they could recall made these puzzlers sound like the most exciting release ever. They got me wet and hard to see the eventual community gathered answer. Invitation To Hell is exactly that movie. Can anyone remember the TV movie where a glamorous soap star played the devil? All I remember is the gates of hell were below the gym? What film sees a man don a spacesuit to rescue his family from the trippy pits of purgatory? The actual movie is very shoddy. Nothing much happens. But the finale is so out there that someone could easily remake it or rename it and achieve something twice as good as what got churned out here. Jennifer Lawrence as the devil wears shoulder pads, anyone?

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