Written and directed by Charles Philip Moore
Starring Eric Larson, Francine Lapensee, Rufus Norris, Jack Forcinito, Stephen Quadros, Mark David Fritsche and Sherry Leigh
USA, 1990
The fourth and final installment of the all night horror movie marathon, DEMON WIND involves a young man (Eric Larson) who travels with a group of friends to the broken down site of his family’s isolated farmhouse to solve the mystery of what happened to his grandparents.
Pretty much right away it becomes clear something super natural is going on – even though the farmhouse looks basically empty and torn down from the outside, going through the door places you into a complete (if trashed) house with four walls and a roof. It’s kind of a neat idea in a movie that otherwise turns out to be a fairly by-the-book horror flick.
Speaking of books, of course they find one, and of course it has mysterious stuff in it about demonic incantations and daggers and stuff. Now we’re getting into EVIL DEAD territory. It isn’t long before demons are surrounding the house, and just when you begin to wonder why this movie has so many characters, you realize it’s so the demons have people to kill. At one point a couple characters decide to bail, and the movie dutifully introduces to two more. Fresh meat.
I can say this for the movie: they really tried. The demon makeup and costumes are pretty great, if not very well articulated, and the battles against them are well done. Also, the movie attempts to strive for something kind of transcendental and crazy at the climax, but doesn’t quite hit the mark. Still, points for trying.
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