High school hell when you’re a sheltered teen figuring out your telekinetic powers is one thing. It’s a different experience when your secret identity is Lucifer, lurking within the human form of a kid whose academic talents can’t mute the off-putting creeper vibes he emanates from every pore.

However, the main character in Stephen King’s Carrie, newly elevated in pop culture thanks to Mike Flanagan and Prime Video, may come to mind while you’re watching Fear No Evil, a 1981 cult horror tale from writer-director Frank LaLoggia (who later made the more mainstream ghost story Lady in White). Not only is there an awkward adolescent with a dangerous secret at the center of each, but there are gym class scenes that almost seem to mirror each other—until they don’t.

First, some context. While Fear No Evil spends a certain amount of time examining the social woes of high schoolers, several of whom appear to be patterning their performances after characters in Grease, it is primarily concerned with more Biblical matters. In a prologue, we see a determined priest, Father Damon (veteran actor John Holland), who is actually the archangel Rafael in human form, chasing after a man who he believes is a manifestation of Lucifer. Their confrontation ends with the man’s death, and—since “he had to die because he was the devil” is a weak legal defense—Damon is convicted of his murder and spends his final days in prison.

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