paulclaassen Legendary suspense director James Wan brings us yet another great scare fest. Great atmosphere. Great cast. Great premise. Bloody great scares! The found footage scenes here and there were highly effective and added significantly to the eeriness. It literally gave me goosebumps. The film captured my attention from the opening scene until that great twist ending. Loved it!

Michael O'Keefe This horror flick will leave as many reasons to like it as dislike it. But DEMONIC is worth checking out for yourself. A group of college age ghost hunters decide to explore an old "haunted" house to connect the flashbacks and dreams of a friend with history to the location. Their foray turns into a bloodbath left to be investigated by Detective Mark Lewis (Frank Grillo) and a psychologist Elizabeth Klein (Maria Bello), that happens to be his on-and-off again girl friend. For slasher fans there won't be enough blood. But the movie has a steady pace to sustain interest. Some characters seem a bit uninspired. Will Canon is credited as director and shares writing duty. Rounding out the cast: Cody Horn, Dustin Milligan, Megan Park, Alex Goode and Terence Rosemore.

morrison-dylan-fan With October coming up I started gathering up some Horror flicks that a friend would enjoy.Learning that she is a fan of The Purge movies,I took a look at Frank Grillo's IMDb page. Initially seeing a page of Action and Drama offerings,I spotted a "new" Horror film right near the top,which led to me unleashing the demon.The plot:Arriving at a murder scene in an abandoned house, Detective Mark Lewis finds a survivor called John in among the three murdered victims. Whilst calling Dr. Elizabeth Klein to interview John,and asking for backup,Lewis finds Videotapes of recordings that the gang made.Checking the footage of their seance,as Lewis continues to search for other survivors in the house, Klein learns that John's mum was a lone survivor of a massacre that took place 20 years ago,in the same house.View on the film:Whilst the kids give good,but not that distinctive performances, Frank Grillo keeps the chill in the air of the post-murder scene bubbling away with a great tough performance as Detective Mark Lewis,who Grillo sends out to chomp anyone who stands in the way of solving the case,with Lewis's first encounter with demonic evil leading to Grillo kicking some demon arse! Looking at things from a more compassionate side,the gorgeous Maria Bello gives a terrific performance as Dr. Elizabeth Klein,whose belief in there being something "behind the walls" leads to Bello giving Klein an understanding edge,which crumbles as the horns appear.Taking inspiration from producer James Wan's adventures in peculiar homes,co-writer/(along with Max La Bella & Doug Simon) director Will Canon and cinematographer Michael "Oculas" Fimognari tape the Haunted House with the gritty Found Footage genres.Sending the gang round the house with black and white cameras,Canon drapes the house in a creepy atmosphere,as the grainy quality of their recordings raise doubts over what exactly is moving in the background.Looking up from the recordings, Canon gives the house a decayed shine,where gliding camera moves dip in and out of the low hanging shadows where the demons lurk. Looking at events from the aftermath perspective,the screenplay by Canon/Simon and Bella calls out a chilling Found Footage Haunted House mystery,where burnt slivers of film give a glimpse to the chaos that unfolded in the house. Inter-cutting the events in the house with Lewis's investigation,the writers bring the supernatural horrors into focus,as each discovery Lewis makes edges another memory out of John's scrambled mind. Balancing the supernatural demonic screams with a gritty mystery,the writers disappointingly push everything over the edge with a left-field twist from afar,which tries a last gasp effort to change sub- genres,but ends up burning down all the intriguing horror mystery that had been bubbling away for a flat final shock which takes the horns from the demonic.

daggersineyes Come on now. Personally I've struggled to find ANY found footage movie interesting but I do understand some like them & I admit i have reluctantly admitted to liking a couple of special additions to the genre (not the popular ones tho). But the whole thing is getting out of hand now. Just having a bunch of out of focus, badly lit, jerky video snippets of doors slamming, staircases, torch lights & screaming faces does not make for a great movie. It's time directors of horror flicks stopped cheating viewers with this cheap gimmick. I really wanted to like this movie but I gave up half way through. I already knew from the start that most of them got killed coz in addition to tedious found footage camera work we get even more tedious "earlier that day" footage after all the bodies are discovered at the beginning of the movie - so there goes the suspense/intrigue/anticipation. THe only mystery left is who did it and is the final person still alive but since you get no real sense of who they are or why you should care anyway you end up well.... not caring. So the movie has nothing about it that drew me in or made me want to spend any more time getting through to the end. It was a chore so I stopped watching. If this sounds like how you like to spend your time tho, by all means have at it.