Witchfinder General 666 "Demonia" of 1990 is one of the last films by Italian Horror/Gore deity Lucio Fulci, and while it certainly ranges among the man's lesser achievements it is still a stylish little film that should be enjoyed by his fans. The film's main problem is that it is a bit of a mess, and that it truly pales in comparison to most of Fulci's other achievements, even becoming a bit boring in some parts (which is a very rare fault in a Fulci film). Yet the film is interesting in its Fulci-typical style and atmosphere and features several truly creepy moments as well as some spectacular gore-scenes. What also makes the film worth checking out is the fact that the master himself has a role - Fulci plays a police Inspector. The storyline is actually very promising Horror-material: In 15th century Sicily, a Covent of nuns who are suspected of conspiring with the devil are lynched by angry villagers. Five centuries later, Canadian archaeologists come to the area and are met with hostility by the superstitious locals. The locals fear that the strangers and their archaeological work might raise the demons of the past; and their worries are not entirely unfounded... Overall, the film has a promising premise but the execution is too messy. Yet it is recommendable to Fulci fans, as it does include many moments of pure creepiness. The master does show his talent for haunting atmosphere, and once again proves that his moniker "The Godfather of Gore" is justified. While "Demonia" should entertain many of my fellow Italian Horror buffs, it might make others roll their eyes. My advice to fellow Fulci-fans: check it out! Others, never mind.

lastliberal You know how they say that even bad sex is wonderful. Even a bad Fulci is worth the time to watch. The creator of such films as Zombie, The Senator Likes Women, and The Beyond can give us bad sex and we will never complain.Besides, this was set in Sicily, and that also makes it worth watching, even if it is 299 km from my grandfather's home.And, did I mention it is also a nunsploitation film? Liza Harris (Meg Register) had vision of nuns being killed in a séance, and now she is in the basement of a monastery in Sicily searching for ...what? She finds five crucified nuns in a sub-basement.There was a naked spirit using a spear-gun on Porter (Al Cliver). How does a ghost shoot a spear-gun. I rewound just to be sure. Yes, it was a ghost with a nice right tit.No ghost needed to take care of a couple of drunks looking for a party.Liza gets the story in flashback from a medium. Suffice it to say the nuns were naughty, and one (Paola Cozzo) had a baby, which they burned. The naughtiness was under covers, so we only get to see one right tit again. I wonder if it was the same one as the ghost.The medium gets the trademark Fulci treatment in a gruesome manner.But, the local butcher gets it bad, too, but neither gets it as bad as one of the archaeologists on the dig. Yech! The ending wasn't very clear, and probably the weakest part of the film.But, like I said, bad Fulci is still Fulci worth having.

The_Void The great Lucio Fulci made some great films in his career - Don't Torture a Duckling and Zombie Flesh Eaters to name but two; but in his twilight years, his career took a bit of a downfall with the likes of The Door to Silence and Voices from Beyond; but he did at least manage one decent effort towards the end of his career - and that is this film. The cover may suggest Demonia to be an attempted revival of the nunsploitation sub-genre, but in fact this is much more like the Fulci who earned himself the 'Godfather of Gore' title and the film is more along the lines of The Beyond. The back-story focuses on a nunnery in which all the inhabitants were murdered. We pick up the story five hundred years later when an archaeological team decides to go digging, much to the dismay of the local townspeople that seem to have something to hide. The team decides to go through with their research anyway, but it's not long before strange things start to happen and Liza Harris - one of the team - starts to suffer from macabre visions.The film gets off to a rather slow start, but once things get going; the film really picks up. Even though the film was made very close to the director's death; he seems to have lost none of his enthusiasm for a gory death scene and indeed the film features some real nasty sequences which include a decapitation, a meat hook in the neck, some eyeball violence (naturally) and someone literally getting torn in half right down the middle! It has to be said that most of the effects do look rather fake; but it's also clear that a lot of effort went into bringing them to the screen, and Fulci delights his fans by ensuring that as much blood is shed as possible. The plot itself is rather decent and although the idea of a supernatural force coming back for vengeance has been used many times before; Fulci does well in doing it again. It has to be said that the gore scenes are the main attraction, but at least the plot serves some relevance to the proceedings, Demonia is not one of the Fulci's finest achievements; but it's a rather decent little gore flick and Fulci fans will surely find something to like.

Boba_Fett1138 Watch out for those nude killer nuns!Lets face it, Italian horror isn't anymore what it used to be and all of the best movies were made mostly in the '70's and '80's. In the '90's the genre was already pretty much dried up in Italy.The movie has a pretty good genre concept and story but it deserved a way better execution all. The movie its story also most definitely isn't helped with its dialog. You know, it's the kind of dialog that is so bad that it will make you laugh. The actors that have to deliver the lines also obviously aren't among the best in their profession.No matter how hard the movie tries, it just never gets real scary or mysterious. The movie is often more dull and a drag. Besides some of the moments are just too ridicules. For instance, an archaeologist that is being scared by a couple of bones? That really doesn't sound likely. It also doesn't help that the movie doesn't feature an awful lot of gore or monsters/killers in it. At least not some good gore. The gore that is in the movie looks quite amateur like. It makes this a rather disappointing- and below average genre movie.The movie spends more than halve of its time figuring out a mystery, while we as the viewers already knew what happened, because it was showed in the beginning of the movie. The how's and why's of it all is little interesting. The movie could had better focused on the present time within the movie, to make it more of a scary one.The character treatment also isn't among the greatest. The person who seems to be the main character suddenly disappears out of the story halve way through, to appear again much later. Yes, there is a reason for it but it doesn't make it any less bad. Same goes for lot of other characters, that just come and go within the story.There are some way better genre movies than this one and Lucio Fulci also has made way better movies.5/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/