Linbeymusol
Wonderful character development!
Jeanskynebu
the audience applauded
Rexanne
It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
lordzedd-3
I mean really, how could Charles Band the head of Full Moon let a total stink-ball like DEMONICUS out. I mean it should never got the green light to begin with. The story is repetitive, the characters are weak at best, there is no real story on Tyranus other then he's a bad dude. Then they writer or director goes out his way for a bad ending. That's right a bad ending, Demonicus rises. The last survivor escapes a deadly cave in, then a picture of Chimera comes to life, cheaply I might add and chases her out. Then as she is walking home ala FUNHOUSE. A statue that has been destroyed centuries ago reappears for no reason just to collapse on top of her. I mean, that makes no sense. What the hell was Charles thinking allowing this pile of puke to be made, with four different movie companies they were that desperate for movies. They could have asked me, I had better ideas then DEMONICUS. THANKSGIVING TURKEY.
Julie Hoverson
Really. This movie makes a great comic monologue.No matter what anyone says, not all movies are fun to mock. There are suprisingly few movies which really offer material throughout that is true food for humor, but this is one - unlike a movie such as, say, "Severed," or Full Moon's own "Killjoy" which are just plain unwatchably bad.Still, Demonicus is close to the bottom of the Full Moon barrel.In the Italian Alps, seven Americans (3 couples and a nerd - who explains that his girlfriend left him just before the trip, but I'm not sure if this was just written in to explain why they couldn't afford a fourth actress) are "competing" to see which couple (or nerd) can get to "base camp" first, taking different (but very wide and well-marked) trails.One couple stop near a cave (which looks like a railroad tunnel from the outside, but papier-mâché on the inside). The guy decides to go in and check it out, and finds a mummified gladiator and is possessed by it. He then puts on all its armor (under the opening credits, somewhat reminiscent of the Rambo(R) Cartoon) and goes off to kill his friends and bring back their bits to make a stew ("is it soup yet?") to raise the gladiator, Tyrannus (nicknamed Demonicus), from the dead.The actor playing the guy who gets possessed is also the film's fight coordinator, which I wouldn't admit. The fight scenes are very bad.
In fact, the nerd dies taking a sword UNDER his arm. When have we seen that special effect, outside of a high-school performance of Romeo & Juliet?One of my favorite scenes is where the nerd and the tough guy (whose girlfriend - coincidentally a virgin - has been kidnapped by Tyrannus or Demonicus or whatever) are at camp and DON'T EVEN NOTICE another woman (all the women in this movie look pretty much alike) running frantically to them until she arrives, bleeding and breathless, to collapse, still clutching her "Time-Life Guide to the Secret Spookiness of the Italian Alps". She has just enough energy (having been running for so long that she lost her coat and backpack, but is still clutching The Book) to slap through the pages of the book and point to the legend of Demonicus. Then she dies. At least, they think she dies, and they wrap her in one of their sleeping bags (since a corpse needs the warmth much more than these bozos). Apparently, their main criteria for judging her dead is that her eyes closed, because she comes to later, and is fine.WHAT???Still, it's funny.
ImTheMasterTheRulerOfTheWorld
Demonicus is a movie turned into a video game! I just love the story and the things that goes on in the film.It is a B-film ofcourse but that doesn`t bother one bit because its made just right and the music was rad! Horror and sword fight freaks,buy this movie now!
Jim Manson
Although I have to admit I laughed more watching this movie than the last few comedies I saw.The budget must have consisted of pocket change from the actors. The production values are so low that they actual made it kind of fun to watch. Reminds me of the Robot Monster made up of a guy in a gorilla suit with a cardboard diving helmet on.In one scene a hapless victim gets their arm and leg cut off. Geez, hard to believe but the Black Knight scene from Holy Grail was more realistic. I kept wondering why the victim didn't start shouting " None Shall Pass" and " It's only a flesh wound, I've had worse". It was one of the funniest scenes I've seen in the past year.The "gladiator/demon" was a stitch too. Between the horribly cheap costume and the geeky look of the guy in it the end result was hysterical.
Truly a movie that is bad enough to be watchable. Kind of like seeing a slow motion auto accident on film.
