Demon

USA 2013
produced by
Luis F. Montalvo, Rob Walker, Ruben Beauchamps (executive) for Ocean Productions
directed by Rob Walker
starring Jasmine Waltz, Michael Placencia, Bill Housekeeper, Joel D. Wynkoop, Michele L'Amourt, John A. Schakel jr, Bob Glazier, Leo Demski, Gianpero Fuentes, John Gabriel, Jil Meyers, Owen Robertson, Robin Ruhmke, Jeremiah Vaughn, Thomas Williamson
written by Bernie Felix jr, music by Alexander Tovar, special effects by Percy J. Best, Peter Graham, special makeup effects by Joan Atkins

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Nicole (Jasmine Waltz) is a top FBI agent, so when she's sent to some backwoods marshlands to investigate a bunch of deadly animal attacks, she knows there must be more to this. But first she has to cut through a lot of red tape, most of it involving a chauvinist but incompetent backwoods sheriff (Joel D. Wynkoop) - but when she finally starts to make sense of it all, enter two gouvernment assigned scientists, Dr Madrid (Michele L'Amourt) and Newhouse (Michael Placencia), who take over the investigations ... not so much because they are more competent investigators let alone animal trackers, but because the "animal" who committed all these killings is actually a creature created by (among others) the two of them for the gouvernment to be used as an unstoppable killing machine. Now there's trouble for you, and it gets worse that these gouvernment scientists refuse to let out all info they have, and they want to capture the creature alive, because otherwise it would push back their research by a good ten years.

Now trying to catch a killing machine alive doesn't sound too good an idea from the get-go, but still, the scientists, Nicole, the sheriff and his men, and ranger Nathan (Bill Housekeeper) set out into the marshlands to try and track the creature down anyhow. But the creature's not only deadly but also cunning and thus knows how to cover its tracks - and before long, the hunters become the hunted because the creature needs to feed ... and it only lives on human blood. And yet, the biggest threat might not even be the creature but the scientists, who not only deliberately expose the others to threat after threat and drive them insane with their secrecy, they also seem to have a pretty deadly agenda of their own ...

Demon is most certainly not the most original film you've ever seen - matter of fact, if you at all watch low budget science fiction/horror movies, you've probably seen the same plot in a hundred different variations. But that doesn't make Demon a bad film, as it gets the best out of its story, relies on storytelling and suspense rather than relying on gore and sudden shocks, does feature some plottwists that might not take the story into an entirely new direction but are unusual still, does get the most out of its locations, and Jasmine Waltz makes a good action heroine, leading a strong and colourful cast.

Again, it's not exactly the reinvention of genre cinema - but good genre entertainment still!

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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