I really wish I could get rid of this started so I'll finish attitude.

"Can you take me higher?" -Creed (NIF), idk this movie feels like it needs a creed song.

Frank Grillo is cool...I dig that guy. Maria Bello...love her... the movie Demonic...nope. #neverdemonic2020.

Part found footage, part flashbacks, part paranormal detective story...100% shit. Kids visit a house with a murderous past and stuff happens. It feels like this film was edited and fixed and changed around a lot. Maria Bello and Frank Grillo are in this a sufficient amount but most of their stuff is separate from the teens and they are each in a bunch of one-shots when they are talking to the teens so I think they weren't actually with them. Tons of ADR exposition added in.

Yet another film that should have been turned into part of the Hellraiser or Cloverfield franchises.

Recommended to: People high on cocaine, trying to burn off tension, a movie to play in the background when you are trying to break up a bromance.

Apparently they're still making movies with the "gadget-obsessed Asian guy" stereotype in 2015. Fucking abysmal

Dear Directors/Producers/Whoeverthefuck,

When you advertise your movie as being "Presented by" a respected horror director, the only thing it tells me is that your movie is going to be a pile of shit.

Remember when Guillermo Del Toro "presented" "Mama"?

I rest my case.

An attempt at thrills is made by making this movie told through a nonlinear way, jumping back and forth between the timeline. While this can be used incredibly well in some cases, here it makes the film much much worse.

The detective work scenes were not good. But they weren't abysmal. They may have been bad but at the very least they were watchable. However the ghost hunters scenes were awful in every way. Poorly acted, shot, and directed. They were also unbelievably boring. This movie is less than 90 minutes, but it drags around every single corner.

The ending and the detective work scenes are the only reason this isn't a half star rating. They weren't good, and in fact they were very stupid, but they were fun engaging stupid at the very least.

Not demonic enough.

The Incredible Shrinking Watchlist 
Film #6
Prompt: 2 Horror Mysteries (2/2) 

Demonic is James Wan-core at its finest. A spooky setting, a mystery to be solved, a twisty plot, and that 2000s-2010s horror aesthetic. I still love these kinds of movies, even though they don’t seem to be very well-regarded anymore. 

While not necessarily successful at sharply hitting all the beats it was aiming at (plot points feel fairly messy and muddled), I still enjoyed this. If you like paranormal horror, I think you will find things to hold your interest here.

Moronic

This was one of those random Netflix watches. I didn’t know what it was and someone turned it on randomly, not me. I sat there and watched it and was mostly bored and upset by the lazy filmmaking. 

This movie feels like it had no artistic intention and was just there to make money. Some of the performances were okay but the dialogue was terrible. The story was really hard to follow with how many flashbacks and flash forwards there was. 

I don’t really have anything else to say, this movie was uninteresting and uninspired. Go watch something else it’s Halloween damn it.