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Demons III: The Ogre
The Ogre: Demons III
Italy 1988
produced by Massimo Manasse (executive), Marco Grillo Spina (executive) for Reteitalia, Dania Film, Devon Film
directed by Lamberto Bava
starring Paolo Malco, Virginia Bryant, Sabrina Ferilli, Stefania Montorsi, Patrizio Vinci, Alice Di Giuseppe, David Flosi, Alex Serra
story by Dardano Sacchetti, screenplay by Dardano Sacchetti, Lamberto Bava, music by Simon Boswell, special effects by Angelo Mattei, Ditta Ricci
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Writer Cheryl (Virginia Bryant) has just moved into an Italian castle
for the summer with her husband Tom (Paolo Malco) and her son Bobby
(Patrizio Vinci) - when weird things start to happen, like the basement in
the castle that totally resembles that one from Cheryl's traumatic
childhood experience back in Oregon, the repeated appearance of some green
slime she somehow connects to an orge, and then even the babysitter
(Stefania Montorsi) vanishes into thin air. Cheryl thinks her childhood
ogre ahs come back to haunt her, but her husband thinks she's just
hysterical and the whole story is pure nonsense ... that is, until the
ogre (David Flosi) really attacks - and only just does Cheryl manage to
run it over by car. Then it disappears. End. One can't denie
that Demons III: The Ogre (no connection to Bava's previous Demons-films)
is a very atmospheric film, maybe Bava's most atmospheric to date - even
if one of the best scenes, in which Cheryl dives into a pool of green
slime in the basement is directly lifted from Dario Argento's Inferno
-, but that's just the problem with the film, it's just one scene supposed
to haunt you after the other, with little else, until after a time this
concept starts to seem artificial ... and when the ogre shows up later on,
it just looks ridiculous and destroys the atmosphere. A rather
underwhelming finale doesn't help much either. Still, one of Lamberto
Bava's better films.
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