Kevin Spacey may have been found not guilty in his sex offenses trial last year, but he still might as well be The Devil as far as a lot of people are concerned – so it’s fitting that he does indeed play a version of The Devil in his latest project, the psychological thriller The Contract, which just wrapped production in Italy. Spacey’s character in the film directed by Massimo Paolucci is called The Devil, and the filmmakers told Variety that his role is along the lines of “Al Pacino’s in The Devil’s Advocate as Satan who takes the guise of a human lawyer, and that of Robert De Niro in Angel Heart, a Satanic businessman who hires a seedy gumshoe detective to descend into Hell.”
Details on the plot of the English-language film have not been revealed. Spacey is joined in the cast by Eric Roberts and Vincent Spano.
The Contract is coming our way from TM Entertainment and is being produced by Massimiliano Caroletti and Sandro Lazzarini. Caroletti and Lazzarini were so enthusiastic about the idea of getting Spacey into the movie, they reportedly “courted him” for eight months to convince him to play the role. Space has previously said that “people who aren’t afraid to be cancelled” were ready to work with him. Caroletti and Lazzarini have certainly proven that to be correct.
The Contract still has to make its way through post-production, so it might be a little while before we hear anything more about this one. In the meantime, Spacey will be seen in the thriller Peter Five Eight, which is set to reach select theatres in the U.S. on March 22nd.
Massimo Paolucci primarily works as a producer and production manager, but has previously directed the horror films Photoshock and Medium, the thriller Soldato sotto la luna, and the action movies All in One Day and Una preghiera per Giuda. He was the line producer on genre legend Dario Argento’s 2012 film Dracula 3D.
What do you think of Kevin Spacey playing The Devil in The Contract? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
It was recently reported that Cameron Diaz will be coming out of her decade-long hiatus to star with Jamie Foxx in the film that’s ironically titled Back in Action. Deadline is now reporting that Diaz will be continuing her return to movies with a part in a dark comedy that has been co-written and set to be directed by Jonah Hill. The movie was a big acquisition for Apple Original Films and has taken to assembling an A-list cast. Diaz is reportedly in negotiations to star alongside Keanu Reeves, who is also negotiating his contract. The two had previously starred together in the 1996 comedy Feeling Minnesota.
The details of the film, per Deadline, say, “Co-written by Hill and Ezra Woods, Outcome will star Reeves as Reef, a damaged Hollywood star who must dive into the dark depths of his past to confront his demons and make amends after he is extorted with a mysterious video clip from his past. An Apple Studios production, the film will be produced by Matt Dines, Ali Goodwin and Hill under their Strong Baby banner.”
Hill and Apple Films are also collaborating for a planned Grateful Dead musical biopic with Martin Scorsese’s Sikelia Productions. That film is said to be directed by Martin Scorsese and will be written by Dolemite is My Name‘s Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. Hill will be starring and producing under Strong Baby with Dines and Goodwin.
While Reeves has been hanging up his bulletproof on the John Wick franchise, he’s been busy working on a comic book he created titled BRZRKR, which has also been planned for a live-action adaptation from Netflix. Meanwhile, while Diaz stepped away from the acting spotlight, she would pick up a new trade as an author with the 2014 publication of the New York Times bestseller The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body, followed by The Longevity Book: The Science of Aging, the Biology of Strength, and the Privilege of Time in 2017. Then, in 2020, Diaz and entrepreneur Katherine Power would launch Avaline, which is a brand of wines that have been farmed organically.
Close on the heels of the news that Yvonne Strahovski of Chuck, The Predator, The Handmaid’s Tale, Stateless,Dexter, The Tomorrow War, and He’s Out There has signed on to star in and produce the Peacock streaming service series Teacup comes the Variety announcement that Scott Speedman is joining Strahovski in the cast. Speedman’s previous credits include Crimes of the Future, The Strangers, Underworld, Grey’s Anatomy, Animal Kingdom, Felicity, and Dark Blue. Strahovski’s character is named Maggie Chenoweth, and Speedman’s character is James Chenoweth.
Teacup is an adaptation of the 1988 bestseller Stinger, written by Robert R. McCammon (pick up a copy HERE). McCammon’s novel has the following description: The story takes place during a single twenty-four hour period in Inferno, Texas. Inferno is a town in trouble, driven to the brink by racial tension, gang violence, and a collapsing economy. But things can always get worse, and they do so with astonishing speed when an unidentified spacecraft crash lands in the desert outside of town, followed by a second craft bearing the alien being who will soon be known as Stinger. Stinger is a kind of interstellar hunter on a mission he intends to complete, whatever the cost. He brings with him an endless array of technological marvels and an infinite capacity for destruction that threaten the existence of Inferno, its inhabitants, and the larger world beyond.
Teacup will follow a disparate group of people in rural Georgia who must come together in the face of a mysterious threat to survive.
James Wan is executive producing Teacup through his company Atomic Monster, alongside Michael Clear and Rob Hackett. Yellowstone consulting producer Ian McCulloch is on board to write and executive produce the show. Other executive producers include McCammon, Francisca X. Hu, Kevin Tancharoen, and E.L. Katz, who will be directing the first episode. Danielle Bozzone is overseeing the project for Atomic Monster. The show is coming our way from UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group.
What do you think of Scott Speedman signing on to share the screen with Yvonne Strahovski in Teacup? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
Director Sébastien Vanicek’s debut feature Infested, a spider-filled French thriller that was formerly known as Vermin, won’t be released through the Shudder streaming service until April 26th, but it has already proved to be impressive enough to those who have already seen it (like Sam Raimi) that it landed Vanicek the job of directing the next Evil Dead movie. In anticipation of the Shudder release, a trailer for Infested has made its way online, and you can check it out in the embed above.
Shudder will be streaming the film in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
Scripted by Vanicek and Florent Bernard, Infested has the following synopsis: Kaleb is about to turn 30 and has never been lonelier. He’s fighting with his sister over a matter of inheritance and has cut ties with his best friend. Fascinated by exotic animals, he finds a venomous spider in a bazaar and brings it back to his flat. It only takes a moment for it to escape and reproduce, turning the whole place into a dreadful web trap.
Théo Christine, Finnegan Oldfield, Jérôme Niel, Sofia Lesaffre, and Lisa Nyarko star.
Vanicek provided The Hollywood Reporter with the following statement: “The idea was always to make a movie that’s worth your ticket, a spectacle worth showing up for. To make a film to blow your mind, your ears, and to hit you in the gut. It’s also a very personal film which depicts French suburbs I know, far from the eeriness of the auteur films or the caricature of the comedies. It’s a genre film that shakes you to your core, moves you, makes you shiver, because it seems to me that through emotions you end up concerned and involved.“
Shudder’s Emily Gotto added, “Infested terrifies, on a multitude of levels. The film is full of horror, suspense and some serious bite. Sébastien is an incredibly talented director, and we are thrilled to bring his feature film debut to the Shudder audience.“
Infested is coming our way from Charades and WTFilms. It was produced by Harry Tordjman of My Box Films.
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The Road House remake is fighting multiple bouts as it fights to win over fans of the original, as well as fighting a new lawsuit from the original’s scribe. The film is also in a fight with its distributing studio, Amazon, as director Doug Liman boycotts screenings of the film for being denied any kind of theatrical releasing. The star of the remake, Jake Gyllenhaal, recently weighed in on his director’s stance, saying, “I adore Doug’s tenacity, and I think he is advocating for filmmakers, and film in the cinema, and theatrical releases. But, I mean, Amazon was always clear that it was streaming. I just want as many people to see it as possible. And I think we’re living in a world that’s changing in how we see and watch movies, and how they’re made.”
While controversy brews behind the scenes, Gyllenhaal is making it clear that he understands the big boots he had to fill for this movie. According to the HuffPost, Gyllenhaal shared a picture of himself on social media from when he worked with the original’s iconic star, Patrick Swayze, on the film Donnie Darko. Gyllenhaal honored Swayze in his post, which stated, “I’ve been thinking back about my time working with Patrick on Donnie Darko, and rewatching this great man in the original Road House plus so many other films. I’ve never stopped being a fan. He was such a talent and I continue to have so much respect and admiration for what he put out and into the world.”
Gyllenhaal continued in his tribute, “I’ll never forget his kindness to me when I was starting out— he didn’t have to take the time, but he always did. We’ve made a different RH this time around, but hoping it’s one he would’ve had fun watching!” Although the trailer showcased many of the original’s story beats, the new film varied up some details which aimed to help it stand apart from the original, such as giving Dalton an extensive background as a professional fighter in the UFC.
When Gyllenhaal showed support for his director’s boycott, he expressed, “What’s clear to me, and what I loved so much, was [Liman’s] deep love for this movie, and his pride at how much he cares for it, how good he feels it is, and how much people should see it.” But Gyllenhaal remained diplomatic about the controversy and expounded, “I’m a deep lover of cinema and the theatrical release – but I also do really embrace the streaming world.”
Mckenna Grace will be seen reprising the role of Phoebe Spengler when the Ghostbusters: Afterlife (watch it HERE) sequel Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (which, of course, also serves as a sequel to the original Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II) reaches theatres on March 22nd, and now Deadline reports that she has lined up the psychological thriller Straight Lies as her next project. Grace will be starring in and executive producing the film, which Alex Kalymnios (Netflix’s The Recruit) will be directing for Mandalay Pictures. Filming is scheduled to begin in North Carolina sometime this summer.
Scripted by Ren Trella, who drew inspiration from true events she experienced as a teenager, Straight Lies is set in 1990, surrounding the hysteria of the war on drugs. A teen girl falsely accused of drug use is held against her will and must escape a cult-like drug rehab that is backed by the US Government, while her covert CIA agent father becomes so lost in political influence that he is unaware of the danger his daughter is in. Trella’s script was a semi-finalist in the Academy Nicholl Fellowship in screenwriting.
Grace provided the following statement: “I am so honored to bring this compelling story to the screen. After speaking with our amazing writer Ren and hearing her true story of what she endured and based the script, I knew this was going to be a heartbreaking, but necessary project to make.“
Kalymnios added: “I am so honored to be directing this haunting and compelling story inspired by true events and I’m thrilled Mckenna Grace will be leading us through this shocking and emotional nightmare of one girl’s fight to survive STRAIGHT.“
Straight Lies is coming our way from Mandalay Pictures and Valor Media Group, with David Zelon producing. The financing is being provided by Unity Entertainment and Princess Gates Entertainment.
Deadline notes that, in addition toThe Recruit, Kalymnios has also directed Three Families for the BBC, the BAFTA-nominated Becoming Human, and episodes of Titans, Impulse, S.W.A.T., Timeless, The White Princess, and The 100.
Does Straight Lies sound interesting to you? Share your thoughts on this Mckenna Grace psychological thriller by leaving a comment below.
No one can deny that Ghost Rider, the 2007 big-screen adaptation with Nicolas Cage, was a terrible superhero movie. But, it’s nothing compared to the gonzo sequel, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, which was directed by the duo Neveldine/ Taylor, who you might remember best for the Crank films. This was their big stab at making a conventional, PG-13 big studio movie, but it misfired BADLY, with the film earning an even worse critical reception than its predecessor and performing even worse at the box office. So what went wrong?
In this episode of Marvel Revisited, our host Kier Gomes tries to unpack what has to be one of the most eccentric superhero movies ever made. It was produced for only half what the first movie cost and it did a few things right, such as ditching the weird wig Cage wore as Johnny Blaze in the original film. But, it ditched some of the things people enjoyed about the original, such as Eva Mendes as the love interest and Peter Fonda, who played a memorably unhinged Satan. The sequel brought in Idris Elba in one of his first big studio roles but gave him nothing to do while also squeezing in cult star Christopher Lambert in a tiny role. But it’s hampered by a PG-13 rating, which doesn’t allow Neveldine/ Taylor to do their thing. Ultimately, it would be their last film as a duo, although Cage has gone on record (with us) saying that he loved the movie. He actually retimed with Brian Taylor a few years later for a much better movie called Mom and Dad.
All due respect to Cage, upon revisiting the movie our man Kier didn’t find too much to love, as he explains in this fun video. Make sure to give it a watch and let us know in the comments what you think!
Madelaine Petsch (Riverdale) has the lead role in A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master director Renny Harlin‘s The Strangers:Chapter 1, which Lionsgate will be giving a theatrical release on May 17th. The full trailer for this film just made its way online a few days ago, and now a clip has been unveiled that shows Petsch’s character in a very dangerous situation. The clip, which has a running time of nearly 2 minutes, can be seen in the embed above.
Harlin has made an entire trilogy of Strangers films, and we’ve heard that Lionsgate will also be releasing The Strangers: Chapter 2 and The Strangers: Chapter 3 by the end of the year.
Petsch is joined in the cast of these films by Froy Gutierrez (Cruel Summer), Rachel Shenton (All Creatures Great and Small), Gabriel Basso (Hillbilly Elegy), and Ema Horvath (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power). The Strangers: Chapter 1 centers on Petsch’s character as she drives cross-country with her longtime boyfriend (Gutierrez) to begin a new life in the Pacific Northwest. When their car breaks down in Venus, Oregon, they’re forced to spend the night in a secluded Airbnb, where they are terrorized from dusk till dawn by three masked strangers. Lionsgate plans from there to expanding the story in new and unexpected ways with its sequels.
The new Strangers trilogy was filmed in Slovakia, and all three movies were shot simultaneously. Solomon produced them with Mark Canton, Christopher Milburn, Gary Raskin, Charlie Dombeck, and Alastair Birlingham. Andrei Boncea, Dorothy Canton, and Roy Lee serve as executive producers. Rafaella Biscayn, Frame Film SK, Johanna Harlin, Juan Garcia Peredo, and Alberto Burgueno are co-producing.
Harlin has said The Strangers:Chapter 1 “is close to the original movie in its set-up of a young couple in an isolated environment in a house and a home invasion happening for random reasons.” Then Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 “explore what happens to the victims of this kind of violence and who the perpetrators are of this kind of violence. Where are they coming from and why?“
What did you think of this clip from The Strangers:Chapter 1? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
Jamie Foxx is such a hard worker that even in a year when the star fell under mysterious health issues that kept bed-ridden in the hospital for some time, he still had multiple projects premiering. Last year saw Jamie Foxx have a packed slate of projects, which include starring in movies like They Cloned Tyrone, Strays and The Burial. He even has a few projects in post-production that were filming around that time, like Back in Action, a vehicle co-starring Cameron Diaz in a return to movies after a decade hiatus. Foxx would eventually recover from his private situation and release a social media video assuring fans that he’s back in good health and great spirits. However, this did not stop people from speculating on what was wrong with him.
According to Variety, the actor-singer-comedian appeared at the African American Film Critics Association’s (AAFCA) Special Achievement Awards luncheon this past Sunday, where he would finally start to address his hospitalization. Foxx stated that he will be revealing what happened during the whole situation, but it will be on a platform that’s near and dear to his career. He explained, “Everybody wants to know what happened, and I’m going to tell you what happened. But I’ve gotta do it in my way. I’m gonna do it in a funny way. We’re gonna be on the stage. We’re gonna get back to the standup sort of roots.” Foxx previewed the audience, saying, “It’ll be called, What Had Happened Was, and it’s got all the things that happened, especially on our side of our community.” To which Jamie poked fun at the conspiracy theories that his public appearances during that time was a double, “I dove out of a car to save this Black woman’s purse. That ain’t no damn Jamie, that’s a clone.”
Foxx recently announced that he will be returning to his Fox game show, Beat Shazam, which he hosts alongside his daughter, Corinne. The star had addressed the new lease on life he’s gained since he was discharged from the hospital, “I’m so thankful. And I just get emotional. Because it was really… it’s beyond the scope. Cherish life. I have some people in my life that really made sure I was here because it was dire straits.” However, Foxx would then joke how insufferable his joy became for his family, “I was drinking some water, like ‘Wow, you taste this water? It’s so wet. This is the wettest water’ [and his daughter responded,] ‘Dad, you’ve gotta chill out.’”
There is something to appreciate when horror deviates from the typical slice and dice. Sometimes it involves demonic possessions (Exorcist), blood-thirsty sharks (Jaws), killer dolls (Child’s Play) or even a shape-shifting organism (The Thing). The horror genre has constantly evolved over-time but today we’re going to go totally left field and have a matchup for the ages between the originator and the emulator. One that involves the book of the dead and deadites while the other brings blood-hungry demons, mystical daggers, and roundhouse loving magicians. Yes, it’s all there with plenty to chew on, and there are no qualms about it, well sort of. We have in our Horror Movie Rip-off ring, 1990’s Demon Wind directed by Charles Philip Moore (get it HERE) and 1987’s Evil Dead II directed by Sam Raimi (get that one HERE). Did Demon Wind rip a page right out of Evil Dead’s Necronomicon for their own, and tried to do it better? Let’s get our boom stick, our Kandarian Dagger, and dive right in.
ASH AND CORY AND THEIR ALTER-EGOS
Both films display their main stars Cory and Ash have a flipside to them that helps further propel the story forward. In Evil Dead II when Ash lets the Book of the Dead incantation play through the tape player, the evil flies through the forest and launches him, turning him into a deadite as he comes up head from a muddy puddle of water. Ash on multiple occasions prevents Annie, Bobby Joe, and Jake from defeating evil while in his deadite form. However, when Ash holds Linda’s necklace while possessed, his trapped human form takes hold again and he goes back to destroying some deadite baddies. In Demon Wind, when we find out that the café owner Harcourt is the son of Satan towards the end of the movie, Cory needs to think up a gameplan. He realizes he can become a higher-being from God, with the help of his grandmother’s diary, to go head-to-head with this massive foul-looking beast. Both Ash and Cory have a flipside to their human counterparts on screen. While one relishes in evil becoming the enemy he has sought out to destroy, the other becomes an alien-like figure that fights evil and protecting the woman he loves.
THE GANGS All HERE!
Both Evil Dead and Demon Wind, as well as any ther horror movie typically has a group of meat fodder thrown in for good measure. In Evil Dead II, Ash brings his love interest Linda to the desolate cabin, and when all things go haywire, the movie brings in some characters to the mix including Annie, who is the daughter of archeologist Raymond Knowby, you know the guy who recorded the Necromoicon passages so that the evil forces could live on and possess more innocent bystanders. Then there is Annie’s boyfriend, Ed, and lastly the locals, Bobby Joe and Jake, who know where the cabin is to guide Annie and Ed. Soon enough, majority of them fall victim to the horrors that await them. In Demon Wind, you get almost the opposite of Evil Dead’s gang. Most of them look like they came out of a Rick Roll Video with those slick hairstyles, but majority of them fall to such wooden typecasts – the jock, Dell, the nerdy ones – Jack, Terri, and Chuck, And then you have all the females who try to be wannabe scream queens, and become absolutely forgettable by the time Demon Wind is over. I would like to mention that while Evil Dead II you see the camaraderie and care with those in the group, Demon Wind plays out the opposite. One of them turns into a doll that gushes blood, and the group doesn’t even bother to shed a tear! It does make up for some great laughs in return for the absurdity of it all.
THOSE DAMN BOOKS!
You know it’s bad news when a certain book possesses macabre scriptures of the unknown and skin covered bindings to them with an evil looking face to it. A real page-turner that can bring about the worst nightmares. Well Evil Dead II is infamously known for its Book of the Dead aka The Necronomicon Ex-Mortis. Archeologist Raymond Knowby has recorded several passages from the book and when Ash plays these recorded incantations, the evils comes alive, causing mass chaos in its path to the likes of hell-spawn demons known as deadites, ravenous trees, blood spewing walls, cellar-dwelling creatures, and more nasty delights. In Demon Wind, there is a book, but it’s the flipside to the evil Necronomicon from Dead. This book was a diary with spells that was hidden by Cory’s grandmother, Regina within her farmhouse. The diary would help fight the demons that were unearthed 60 years back and are ready to return once Cory and his friends stay the night. The book is a useful resource as it provides a barrier around the house to keep Cory and his friends safe. It also transforms Cory into a higher-being to fight off the big bad Satan-monster at the end. You can’t help but laugh when his higher-being transformation belongs more in a Galaxy Quest film than a Demon Wind film.
DEADITES, DEMONS, AND BLOOD – OH MY!
Deadites are always the main villains of the Evil Dead films. Known for their abilities to change appearance to throw off an unsuspected victim, to contorting their bodies in very unnatural ways, deadites are viciously uncompromising and downright ghastly to watch. They are unearthed once the Necronomicon’s incantations are spoken by the one person who wants to spice up their life a little bit. These deadites are extremely hard to kill, chopping off limbs won’t do much unless you go for the head. They pack quite a punch, or in this film, quite a bite. They can also shapeshift into nasty mutant creatures that look like something out of Carpenter’s The Thing. In Demon Wind, the demons also can change their appearance into average human beings, some are even quite the lookers, before quickly turning into deadite wannabe ghouls. They bite, slash, and savagely attack their prey. They are quite nasty to look at as well, and some well-placed gun shots or magical daggers will do the trick. Yes, you’ll absolutely get Evil Dead vibes from these demons because they act almost entirely the same. Still fun to watch though even if its ripped right from Evil Dead lore. Even funnier is that when Evil Dead II has a scene involved possessed trees towards the end of the film, DemonWind has a scene involving laughing trees which may be a subtle nod to Evil Dead II? How about this one, in DemonWind, Reena goes up to an Animal skull hanging in the barn next to the farmhouse. It comes alive, wrapping a tongue around her head and starts chomping away. Again, you go back to Evil Dead II when the deer head on the wall turns its neck and starts laughing maniacally. All these Demon Wind scenes are homages or emulations to that of Evil Dead II but feel more like watered-down copies.
TRAPPED IN PARADISE
Coincidentally Demon Wind has a very similar setting to that of Evil Dead II. While Evil Dead II takes place in a desolate cabin in the woods far away from civilization, Demon Wind takes place at a desolate farmhouse far off the beaten path, involving long windy roads, and hills. The only thing working in Demon Wind’s favor is Harcourt’s Café not too far from where the farmhouse resides. The owner of Harcourt’s Café is a geriatric, odd man who warns Cory and his friends to turn around and go home. In Evil Dead II when Ash and Linda make it to the cabin, and things start going off the rails, Ash realizes that he must leave only to be stopped dead in his tracks when the bridge has been destroyed, preventing him from leaving. In Demon Wind, Cory and his friends become trapped when all their cars malfunction. Once they try walking away from the dangers that lurk at the farmhouse, a fog consumes them, unwilling to let them leave. The same fog that brings about those pesky demons at night.
SAME CAMERA TRICKS, TWO DIFFERENT CINEMATOGRAPHERS
In Demon Wind, you’d think that cinematographer Peter Deming, from Evil Dead II was the man behind the camera. However, it was cinematographer Thomas L. Callaway who took a page from Evil Dead cinematographer Peter Deming towards the overall look of the film. In Demon Wind the camera work is eerily like that of Evil Dead II. This can be a subjective opinion but when you have camera tricks such as the quick zooms, Dutch tilts, extreme closeups, zoom outs, everything that give Evil Dead II that visual flair over most horror films during its time brings more to my case that Demon Wind is a copycat to that of Evil Dead even on a technical front.
WEAPON OF CHOICE
There’s another notch to the belt of our copycat friend Demon Wind. When it comes to weaponry involved in the film, Cory and his friends use a shotgun throughout the film to dispose the demons. In Evil Dead II, Ash uses a double-barreled shotgun aka his boomstick, to take out some deadites. Here’s when it gets even easier to decipher this as concrete copycat. Both movies have mystical daggers to wipe out their demonic forces. Evil Dead II has the Kandarian Dagger which is used in several scenes, while Demon Wind uses two daggers that destroy the demons for good once penetrated into their bodies. In Demon Wind, it’s stated there is seven mystical daggers, but Grandma Regina only how possession of two. Sounds awfully familiar right? Too familiar for my own liking, but let’s move on!
TAKE MY STRONG HAND!
Evil Dead II had a great scene involving Ash getting his hand infected when it became bitten by his deadite girlfriend Linda. The hand starts to become possessed and hurts Ash by smashing his face with glass plates and other items which results Ash to cut it off and substituted for that legendary chainsaw that made Ash so iconic and engrained in horror movie lore. The possessed hand becomes a nuisance throughout the film, running away from Ash throughout the cabin when it almost gets blown to pieces by the boomstick. In Demon Wind, Corey’s friend Jack becomes infected when his hand gets bit by one of the demons outside, but at the same time, why the hell are you using a hammer through a window with very minimal space to move around? It’s upsetting cause due to the stupidity of Jack and him being one of the most well-liked characters in Demon Wind, he becomes one of the ghouls outside.
CLOSING
While watching Demon Wind, it’s apparent how much they took from Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead II and that isn’t necessarily a good thing. Evil Dead II to this day is a phenomenal film that is still discussed among horror fans with multiple films including sequels, requels,and soft reboots. If you went into a crowd of cinema fanatics and movie buffs, I almost feel like everyone would know of Evil Dead II while no one would remotely know of Demon Wind and the proof is in the pudding when you watch Demon Wind. All signs point to it being a very watered-down version of the movie it was trying to replicate. And while we have Evil Dead II to marvel at for many years to come, we can always give thanks to Demon Wind for trying to stand toe-to-toe with it. I can honestly say if you need to make a drinking game you can pop in Demon Wind for how many WTF moments the movie has, that’s for damn sure. I’ll see you for the next one folks, and if you like what you see, like and subscribe to our channel and stay tuned for more videos from JoBlo.
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