Sam Panico Let me see if I can sum this one up: fire-twirling women take part in rituals to keep a fish god happy. Illegal dynamite fishing ends the hibernation of this fish god, Akua, who wakes up and starts eating human flesh. A sheriff and female herpetologist must join forces and stop the beast, which they do by blowing it up real good.I'm trying to think of one good reason for you to watch this movie. Hmm. Kathryn Witt has on tight 80's jeans? The sheriff's name is Keefer? It feels more like a travelogue film than something gripping and filled with drama? This movie hurts to watch.

Michael_Elliott Demon of Paradise (1987) * 1/2 (out of 4)A bunch of mean guys using dynamite to fish end up disrupting a lizard-like creature who soon goes on a killing spree where no one in the Hawaiian locations are safe.DEMON OF PARADISE comes from the Philippines and is pretty much a wannabe CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON. How much entertainment you get out of it will depend on your feelings towards ultra low-budget movies with bad acting, bad dialogue and just an all around "bad" movie feel. If you're looking for a good movie then go check out the Universal title. If you're just wanting to kick back, turn your brain off and have some cheap fun then you might want to check this out.I will admit that I enjoy watching bad movies but this one here had a few too many boring spots to keep it at an entertaining level throughout. With that said, there are certainly some moments of hilarity that make it worth watching for fans of bad movies. For starters, the lizardman costume is so funny looking that you can't help but think the creature in THE GIANT CLAW had a baby with some sort of lizard. Another great moment happens when a helicopter is flying a tad bit too low. I won't spoil what happens but laughs will certainly follow.It's really too bad that DEMON OF PARADISE didn't have more scenes with the monster because he's certainly the funnest part of the film. As it is, there are too many slow and boring scenes with talky dialogue that isn't entertaining.

HumanoidOfFlesh When I was a teenager I used to watch a lot of Cirio Santiago's war/action flicks like "Equalizer 2000","Nam Angels" or "Last Stand at Lang Mei".His cheaply made but highly energetic movies were popular during VHS revolution in Poland."Demon of Paradise" tells the story of Hawaiian fishing community terrorized by a man sized amphibious monster.I consider myself very tolerant when it comes to rating and reviewing Z-grade trash,unfortunately "Demon of Paradise" is simply dull.There is no gore and the bloodless killings are mostly off-screen.Admittedly Hawaiian landscapes are beautiful and the music is fine,but "Demon of Paradise" is a misfire.4 out of 10 for this low-budget monster dud.

lost-in-limbo Mmm… the poster artwork looked alright; too bad the feature didn't draw out the same excitement. 'Demon of Paradise' isn't the complete pits, but for most part is quite an flatfooted cheapjack co-American/Philippines monster feature, which treads water for too long and then amusingly erupts in the unimaginative final quarter. Philippine exploitation director/producer Cirio H. Santiago ('Cover Girl Models', 'T.N.T. Jackson' and 'Naked Vengeance') manages to keep you fascinated, but I don't know how. Maybe it's those cheap looking explosions. Yeah it could be. Caused by no other than the creature? No really it's plain stupidity. I don't know why they want to destroy it. I could've sworn when it's bobbing out of the water it likes to wave (not clawing), asking to jump in so it can hug you to death. But wherever it is about, for some reason there's dynamite and then explosions seem to follow. Maybe the director was adding those bangs to wake-up the viewer from the miserable dialogue exchanges and mainly limp acting. One scene involving a helicopter and the creature efforts to get up close for a ride is embarrassingly shonky. No wonder why he went all out in the final twenty minutes, but this creature could've been mistaken for a machine since all of the punishment it encounters and still it doesn't bleed. Where's Arnold Schwarzenegger when you need him. But more than one grenade thrown at the same time will get you a result. BOOM! Really there wasn't enough buzz. Everything here is a cut and paste job with the story lazily mixing 'Jaws (1975)' and 'Creature from the Black lagoon (1954)' together. The prehistoric underwater monster (formed by some superstitious groundwork) is a lousy looking rubber suit, and the rest of the make-up FX is quite tatty. Performances come across rather drab, but Laura Banks, Frederick Bailey and especially Leslie Scarborough kick up plenty of spruce. The music score was painful.Pointless trite, but watchable.