The feature debut from director Lee Esposito (expanding on a 2016 short subject of the same title) makes an adequate demo-reel/enry-level picture in the occult horror'n'gore genre, though the low budget shows.
An occasional cheeky sense of humor compensates partially for what's lacking: studio high gloss, big-name actors, and extravagant f/x —not that those elements would have helped too much (they certainly didn't in Jennifer's Body, superficially similar).
College student Jenna (Nell Kessler) catches her boyfriend of five years in an act of brazen infidelity. A novice-Wiccan classmate (Robin Carolyn Parent) urges revenge via conjuring a succubus—a sexually insatiable female demon—using Jenna's menstrual blood. They thus summon, direct from ancient Babylon, the notorious Lilith, AKA 'Lily' (Savannah Whitten).
Looking like a Goth-girl sylph (and, in demonic form, a Comic-Con cosplay of the H.R. Giger-designed she-monsters from the Species sci-fi sex spectacles), Lily indeed seduces and murders the offending ex-boyfriend. But she refuses to depart afterward, and Jenna suffers from psychic links to the carnage as Lily, masquerading as a co-ed, continues to woo and kill campus males. What can Jenna and her friends do?
Actual intercourse and erotica are largely left to the imagination, while gruesome bloodletting should satisfy fans of this sort of thing (you know who are you are), and Esposito helms the material in a competent, matter-of-fact manner.
But the major assets of Lilith are the actors, especially toothy, leggy redhead Whitten, concocted more like a high-school Mean Girl from the San Fernando Valley than an ancient evil spirit. In a better world than this, Savannah Whitten would have had a lock on the role of Daphne Blake in the live-action Scooby-Doo movies.
In a better world than this, would there be live-action Scooby-Doo movies? Would there be Lillith, for that matter? Optional. (Aud: P)