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

Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie

Full-throttle curse-fighting anime action

"...one alive, one an apparition – take on a demonic curse...."

March 18, 2022 Movie Review

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

Fear

Pandemic horror is overshadowed by better films about fear

"...they soon find themselves under the thrall of a demonic witch who forces them to live out their worst..."

Jan. 27, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

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

SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...best friend and, in the process, unwittingly releases a demonic entity that grows stronger by feeding on her loneliness...."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Indoor Queers Club: LGBT-Boo!

Queer horror picks from your trusty Chronicle crypt keepers

"...by demands she rewrite her work for mainstream consumption, demonic visions of her mother, selling out, and the follies..."

Oct. 28, 2022 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

How Art the Clown Became a Horror Icon

Slasher epic Terrifier 2 breaks all the rules, but director Damien Leone is just telling the story he wants to tell

"...that elevate Terrifier 2 beyond a mere gorefest. "He's demonic, she's wearing an angel costume, so you have a..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Black Phone

Ethan Hawke is a villain for the ages in this brilliant horror

"...a hybrid. While Sinister was a supernatural chiller of demonic assault, The Black Phone injects the uncanny into a..."

June 24, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

X

Ti West returns with a brilliant period horror-porno (horno?)

"...his cozy hotel ghost story The Innkeepers to the demonic slasher House of the Devil – has made a..."

March 18, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

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

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