Breaking the Internet With Neill Blomkamp's Demonic

Terror and terabytes create a new vision of possession

"...exactly what Neill Blomkamp envisioned for his new horror, Demonic. He said, "I love the idea of modernizing the..."

Aug. 18, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Demonic

Neill Blomkamp takes us head first, straight to Hell

"...Instead, for Demonic he melds together family drama with technothriller, then casts..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Stay Alive

Contrary to the hopes of geeks everywhere, Stay Alive is not an all-zombie musical remake of Sly Stallone's 1983 Saturday Night Fever sequel, but instead a fatuous and dull horror film about gamers.

"...the ball. “Stay Alive” is the name of a demonic video game that kills off its players in the..."

March 31, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Ava's Possession

SXSW 2015 horror hits VOD

"...Most demonic possession movies stop just when things gets interesting. The..."

March 5, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Rite

In this supernatural thriller, Anthony Hopkins plays a Vatican-based exorcist who trains a doubting seminary student to drive out the Devil.

"...are made. But until Father Lucas is gripped by demonic possession, there is nothing that convinces Michael to fully..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Annabelle: Creation

The scary doll from The Conjuring is back (again)

"...brand, first with the 2014 prequel Annabelle, about the demonic doll who had a brief cameo in the first..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Wailing

South Korean movie adeptly blends a variety of genre tropes

"...goes down the rabbit hole of ancient magic, shamans, demonic possession, and a very nasty ghost (not to mention..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

London Has Fallen

This jingoistic blow-’em-up takes no prisoners

"...of course being people of color, killers driven to demonic deeds, in the end, by the collateral damage caused..."

March 4, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sinister 2

Round 2 for this supernatural horror franchise

"...d’être now appears to be attempting to preclude more demonic misfortune. Accordingly, he sets out to torch a rural..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Devil Inside

A woman tries to determine whether her incarcerated mother is criminally insane or demonically possessed.

"...went on a murderous, decidedly anti-Catholic rampage (possibly via demonic possession) when Isabella was a child. Twenty years later,..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Silent Hill

Eerie but ultimately unengaging film adaptation of Konami's smash series of video games has a pitch-perfect score and unnervingly nightmarish imagery.

"...far) and fleshed out with hell's own jumble of demonic, pseudo-religious imagery, including some of the most bizarrely unappetizing..."

April 28, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Fog

This hazy remake pales in comparison to John Carpenter's original fogbanks from 1980.

"...eve of its centennial, is suddenly overrun by a demonic fogbank, the victim of a generation-spanning vendetta that can..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fallen

"...an excellent cast. But Fallen's pretentious vision of a demonic force out to shatter the life of one lowly..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Mangler

"...the Michael Cimino of horror films. A tale of demonic possession in an industrial laundromat, The Mangler comes across..."

March 10, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Vampire Hunter D

"...expressionless, his broadsword slicing through the vampires and their demonic cohorts like a Red Devil razor blade through an..."

June 26, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hand to God at Hyde Park Theatre

Capital T Theatre delivers a fast-paced, funny take on this tale of a demonic hand puppet in a church basement

"...as it can be, given that it's about a demonic hand-puppet who traps a kid in a church basement...."

Sept. 2, 2016 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

The Conjuring

This supernatural thriller from the director of Saw could be mistaken for The Amityville Exorcist.

"...to scare up a scream: deafening door-slams, ghostly apparitions, demonic cackling, levitating chairs. The seen-it-all-before elements of this supernatural..."

July 19, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Devil and William Friedkin

The director's journey from The Exorcist to a real exorcism

"...and methodical retelling of William Peter Blatty's novel of demonic infestation in Georgetown...."

Jan. 5, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Postscripts

"...books chief Margaret is expounding this week in her demonic fashion [Ed. note: Demonic? Demonic?!?] on the books she..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Books Column by Clay Smith

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

The Warrens are back at it again ...

"...comic books, and the core films of James Wan’s demonic Catholic cinematic universe are some of the most expensive..."

June 11, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

The Seventh Day

Training Day meets The Exorcist

"...When evil abounds, and demonic possessions are rife all over Baltimore, who do you..."

March 26, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Earwig and the Witch

Studio Ghibli's first fully CG feature casts no enchantment

"...even when the sorceress Bella Yaga (Marshall) and her demonic lodger, the Mandrake (Grant), come to take her home...."

Feb. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Saint Maud

Agony and ecstasy intertwined in this horror as Catholic angst turns self-destruction

"...writer-director Rose Glass suggests a more insidious form of demonic influence. Maud believes with all her heart that she..."

Jan. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The New Mutants

The last of the X-Men finally get to the screen

"...original trauma – spending seven years trapped in the demonic hellscape known as Limbo – for an uncomfortable and..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Amulet

Supernatural thriller is more mood than meaning

"...them all, as Tomaz becomes increasingly convinced there are demonic forces at play...."

July 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sátántangó

Bela Tarr's marathon exploration of evil and inertia in a small town, gorgeously restored

"...whether he's truly the devil, a devil, or just demonic, but check this out: Exhibit A is the seven-and-a-half-minute..."

April 24, 2020 Movie Review by Spencer Parsons

In Fabric

Marianne Jean-Baptiste says yes yes yessss to the dress

"...chief witch of a coven trying to inflict a demonic dress on poor Sheila. Or maybe she's both...."

Dec. 6, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

It Chapter Two

Back to Derry as the Losers Club takes on Pennywise again

"...relatable. All are game, and fair game for the demonic Pennywise’s increasingly bat-shit crazy flimflammery. Sure, It Chapter Two..."

Sept. 6, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

To Dust

Two men and a pig become more than porcine comedy in this tender and cunning discussion of death

"...Shmuel is unnerved by vivid nightmares in which a demonic dybbuk of Hebrew mythology emerges from his spouse’s decaying..."

March 1, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Possession of Hannah Grace

Diabolical horror in the morgue is DOA

"...removed the gothic religious elements from a film about demonic possession, but alas...."

Dec. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

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