Well, a Full Moon does only come once a month! A couple months ago, this was supposed to be the last film in a week of Full Moon films. I kind of messed up on the timing- much like with Razorback- and didn't get to it in time. However, I had to wait 4 years to see Razorback, so I sure as hell wasn't delaying the review too! I do toss part of the blame on Full Moon Pictures, since nearly all of their new films- including Demonic Toys 2, The Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt and The Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver- are not widely-available on DVD (read: not on Netflix). It's hard to mock you so often if I have to make an extra effort to watch your shit! On to the movie itself! Demonicus is a tale of a man who makes a wrong turn, puts on a hat and becomes a possessed killer. Stop ripping of Citizen Kane! In all seriousness, this is a pretty one-note movie, but what do you expect from this company? To see how silly that one note is, read on...
We begin with a really silly and pretentious title card. It's not really funny or clever. Kudos for setting the bar low right away!
After a few minutes of watching two people hike (one of whom is good at it and one who is lazy), the former goes into a cave and finds a body in armor. Naturally, he puts on the helmet right away, leading to him being possessed. Pose time!
Now in his silly outfit and doing his best impression of Billy from Silent Night, Deadly Night, our villain goes off to kill his friends. Thankfully, they all split up into pairs like a bad slasher movie...which this pretty much is.
The plot is so paper-thin and the pacing so random (four or five kills in twenty minutes and then nothing), that I'd rather just show you silly shots of the villain, like this...
...ooh, this is a good one.
One more for the road, I think...
Anyhow, the cast gets whittled down to about three people that confront Demonicus (who's never really called that per se). They pull off the mask, killing him. Say good-bye to your friend and hello to a demon that will stab you...which is kind of like what your friend was doing.
With only one cast member left, our Final Girl goes outside and puts on the helmet...for some reason. Are we getting the cliche 'It's Not Over' Ending?
Nope. She takes off the helmet, causing the statue to explode in an unconvincing CG effect. After that, she just leaves. The End.
What a Full letdown! The plot of this movie had all the potential in the world to either be goofy or at least a little dramatic. It pretty much fails at both of those. Here's why: story pacing. They start off by introducing the lead hiking with the annoying woman, who is obviously written this way to make you not feel for her death. Within 5 minutes, the guy has found the helmet, gets possessed and kills her. What this means is that every ensuing scene where they talk about him 'being their friend' and saying stuff like 'why could you do this?!?' has no emotional impact. All we know is that they say he was their friend- that's it. It has all the impact of it being some random statue come to life or a ghost turned into flesh. To address the other part, the goofiness wears off when you see the suit so much and they really do nothing with the character. All he does is stab people with a sword, hit them with a mace or catch them in a net. They do get a little bit back when accidentally breaks the sword against a tree and they just work that into the story! Seriously, if that was actually scripted, I'd be very surprised. Unfortunately, this is another case of Full Moon dropping the ball on the execution, rendering the movie a little dull at times. Take us away, POV Stabbing Cam...
Next up, a film that I watched a while back and is now on Streaming. Is this import worth it's weight in troll dung? Stay tuned...
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