{"id":2262,"date":"2016-10-25T11:02:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T16:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intheaudience.net\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2016-10-25T13:54:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T18:54:38","slug":"demonic-2005-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/intheaudience.net\/?p=2262","title":{"rendered":"Demonic (2005) – Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Demonic”\u00a0<\/strong>aka “Forest of the Damned”<\/em><\/p>\n

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31 Days of Horror Challenge: Movie #25<\/p>\n

Emilio buys a crappy van to take his friends, Judd, Molly, Andrew, and sister, Ally, on a holiday to a remote lake. \u00a0 Along the way, the van, unsurprisingly, starts acting up. \u00a0After driving all night, Emilio dozes off at the wheel and hits a woman walking in the road. \u00a0Leaving Emilio and his sister to take care of the woman, Andrew, Judd and Molly walk (because the van is broken down now) off to find help. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

This low budget film from the U.K. \u00a0had a lot of potential, but failed to deliver. \u00a0With an interesting story concept about a man living in a haunted forest surrounded by fallen angels, it used tried and tired tropes used in hillbilly cannibal flicks.<\/p>\n

The good – a beautiful and haunting setting and cinematography. \u00a0The practical effects and make-up for the fallen angels was great. \u00a0I don’t care how cheesy Tom Savini can be, he always falls under good for a film, even if he only has a brief appearance.<\/p>\n

The bad – I was a little disappointed when the film rather blew its wad by showing the audience its demonic creatures in all their glory within the first few minutes. \u00a0Along with the lack of backstory, some plot points seem to\u00a0have been\u00a0left abandoned and unresolved. \u00a0I\u00a0didn’t enjoy\u00a0the direction in this film, though, it is an earlier film for director Johannas Roberts, who later directed Storage 24, which I did like quite a bit, so yay for improvement. \u00a0One of the most important aspects for a film for me is good characters. \u00a0In this\u00a0most of\u00a0characters are unlikable or annoying, I really didn’t even want to empathize with them. \u00a0And, for goodness sake, why an homage to The Breakfast Club?<\/p>\n

There is some really random stuff going on in this film and although I get that it is supposed to set an atmosphere of disorientation so that the viewer feels the characters being hunted, it just feels like a confused mess. \u00a0 I’m glad that I watched it, I may even choose to revisit it again, to give it a second chance, but I can’t really recommend it.
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