Fresh and Exciting

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

This horror flick will leave as many reasons to like it as dislike it. But DEMONIC is worth checking out for yourself. A group of college age ghost hunters decide to explore an old "haunted" house to connect the flashbacks and dreams of a friend with history to the location. Their foray turns into a bloodbath left to be investigated by Detective Mark Lewis (Frank Grillo) and a psychologist Elizabeth Klein (Maria Bello), that happens to be his on-and-off again girl friend. For slasher fans there won't be enough blood. But the movie has a steady pace to sustain interest. Some characters seem a bit uninspired. Will Canon is credited as director and shares writing duty. Rounding out the cast: Cody Horn, Dustin Milligan, Megan Park, Alex Goode and Terence Rosemore.

Skeptical detective Mark Lewis (Frank Grillo) and his girlfriend police psychologist (Maria Bello) investigate the gruesome murders at the Martha Livingston house in Louisiana. They appear to be copy cat murders from an event from 1988. John (Dustin Milligan) who was found still alive in the house is undergoing questioning while two people are still missing.The story as to what happened is told as a subplot as John slowly recalls. A group of paranormal investigators was in the house. It included his girlfriend and her ex-boyfriend, so there is some tension. Some of the flashback segment is hand held, but not the bad kind where all we see are feet and hear people say, "What was that?" The script drops all kinds of clues as to what might be going on and they finally come together at the end. I liked the film. It seemed every time things started to slow up a bit, they smartly switched scenes. Yes, it was partially hand held camera and there was a seance, but yet it seemed fresh.Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity. Megan Park announces that she is the film's eye candy, but we don't get to see much of her

I always get a little weary when I pick up a horror DVD and see it only lasts for 80 minutes. There are tons out there now. Short pointless horror flicks with minimal story/few scary moments/bad acting. This was a little above average. Good stuff: The mystery kept me intrigued enough to stay till the end. There were quite a few moments where my mind was batting back and forth between being sure or uncertain. Is he lying? Is he not lying? You get the gist. Also if you like supernatural horror, as I do, then you will also enjoy the loud bumps, jumps, people being dragged around by some invisible being. Always gives me the jeebies...in a good way. I liked the fact that they didn't make this a "found footage film" but incorporated a little of that through the film. The film jumped back and forth between this, the past and the current and I thought that worked well. Maria Bello also played a believable character. I liked her. Can't say the same for the rest of the cast. Which leads me to the bad stuff.Bad stuff: Acting wasn't great. The main character played by Dusty Milligan was not likable. I can't remember what else I've seen in him but I'm pretty sure he gave me the irrits then too. He was trying pull off scared and frantic and instead he just seemed....like maybe he was coming down off something or just really really cold. The rest of the characters were like fuzzy blurs with lines. None of their characters were formed enough for me to care if they lived or died. Also the whole - group of people go to a house/cabin/camping and two or more characters dislike each other - has been done to death. It has to stop! In closing, entertaining enough but nothing too special.

Come on now. Personally I've struggled to find ANY found footage movie interesting but I do understand some like them & I admit i have reluctantly admitted to liking a couple of special additions to the genre (not the popular ones tho). But the whole thing is getting out of hand now. Just having a bunch of out of focus, badly lit, jerky video snippets of doors slamming, staircases, torch lights & screaming faces does not make for a great movie. It's time directors of horror flicks stopped cheating viewers with this cheap gimmick. I really wanted to like this movie but I gave up half way through. I already knew from the start that most of them got killed coz in addition to tedious found footage camera work we get even more tedious "earlier that day" footage after all the bodies are discovered at the beginning of the movie - so there goes the suspense/intrigue/anticipation. THe only mystery left is who did it and is the final person still alive but since you get no real sense of who they are or why you should care anyway you end up well.... not caring. So the movie has nothing about it that drew me in or made me want to spend any more time getting through to the end. It was a chore so I stopped watching. If this sounds like how you like to spend your time tho, by all means have at it.