The First Power is a 1990 American neo-noir horror film written and directed by Robert Resnikoff, and starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Tracy Griffith, Jeff Kober and Mykelti Williamson.

The Pentagram Killer is revealed to be a Satan worshipper named Patrick Channing who is apparently eager to be executed.

Understanding that Channing's Satanic rituals have allowed him to return as a demonic spirit and a dire threat, Tess goes to the police and tells Logan that she was the tipster.

At Tess's suggestion, they visit Sister Marguerite, a nun knowledgeable about "The First Power" (resurrection), to learn how to stop Channing, but she turns them away.

That night Channing possesses a bag lady and kidnaps Tess from Logan's apartment, planning to ritually sacrifice her.

[1] According to Time Out Magazine, Resnikoff took inspiration from convicted mass murderer Gary Gilmore, who believed in reincarnation and voiced his intentions to return after he was execution by firing squad by Utah Department of Corrections in 1977.

[3] The film received negative reviews, including Desson Howe's in the Washington Post, which called it "shopworn and imitative".

[5] In 2016, Padraig Cotter writing for Dread Central stated that the film was "sloppy with the logic" in regards to the supernatural abilities of the villain.

[7] In later years, it is considered a cult classic with its twist ending noted as similar to The Twilight Zone or Tales of the Unexpected.