Too much of everything

Don't Believe the Hype

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

"You kids have done and excellent job...except for the maggots." Up until the priest says this, you might actually think that this film is trying to take itself seriously.This is a fairly enjoyable film. The SciFi channel shows it on a regular basis and it is a whole order of magnitude better and more competently made than, say, "Intermedio" or "Shapeshifter".One irritating thing about this film is that, being a B-film, there's no sanitized overdubbed version. Since there's a lot of profanity, you get these ridiculous gaps in the conversations that make you think you're on a cell phone. SciFi will gladly show you knives penetrating flesh, spurting blood, rolling heads, and entrails, but you sure don't want to be exposed to the F-word.Also, like most teen movies, there are a lot of naked boobs. The "Blur Squad" probably had to work weekends to get this one ready for TV.But at least the color balance is consistent and the editing isn't making you scratch your head. (In "Intermedio", for example, the director wanted to show characters going back the way they came in a crawlspace under a house. To do this, the film was simply reversed from the previous scene, resulting in all the writing on the characters' t-shirts being reversed as well. Lesson from film school...don't put any writing in scenes you're going to flip into a mirror image.) Worth watching on a Sunday morning.

"Demon Slayer" is a rather entertaining film.**SPOILERS**Trying a new method of reform on teens, troubled youths Alicia, (Michelle Acuna) Claudia, (Hanna Lee) Tyson, (Howard Williams Jr.) Phillip, (Adam Huss) and Tamara, (Monique Deville) along with Mr. Cobb, (Layon Gray) are sent off to clean an old asylum for community service. While cleaning up, Alicia finds a book that shows the asylum was built on a brothel whose members worshiped an evil Aztec God and performed sacrifices on it's customers. As the asylum starts to take its toll on the group and they begin killing each other, they must work together to deal with the threat.The Good News: This was a pretty good surprise. The film's greatest strength is it's high watch-ability. It's cheesy enough to and features a sequence that will keep your attention just when it looks like it will get a tad boring, and it keeps the film watchable. The various visions are pretty creepy, and the best is the snake gag in the bathroom. Rather than being a traditional gag, there's a small twist to it that makes the scene work. It has a couple of nice shock moments here and there as well, and the constant nudity helps a lot as well. The gore isn't over-the-top but is kept in check and the few gore scenes, which are mainly the deaths, are more effective for that. The kills aren't new, but the spinal column ripped out was very effective due to the fact that it was a pretty gory scene and the rest of the film wasn't. The film never really drags except in the beginning for a while, and it really isn't all that bad.The Bad News: There really wasn't a whole lot of things wrong with it. The most obvious one is the very slow beginning. It's at times really a struggle to get through the first half, as there's a lot of bickering amongst the group that really doesn't do much other than drag out the film with useless scenes that are merely reinforcements of what was known earlier. It doesn't really do anything other than get old fast as there's another scene of the group arguing with each other. That puts all the action at the back end of the film, meaning that it really gets going towards the end and is a little slow as it starts itself off. It's a little clichéd as well, as there's several other films with pretty much the same general plot. It hardly finishes itself in a predictable manner but then it doesn't really show much change while doing so either. These are the two main problems with the film.The Final Verdict: It's a little clichéd, but that doesn't really stop the film from being all that bad. It's slow parts are made up for with it's sleazier side, and when it gets going, it's mightily enjoyable. Highly recommended fare.Rated R: Graphic Language, Nudity, several Sex Scenes, Graphic Violence and drug use

There's one thing I've learned after this: don't trust the categories shown on IMDb. Someone most obviously omitted "comedy". I'll change that.SPOILERSI think I'll keep this quite short. The movie is about a haunted house and about some "kids" who are sent there to clean everything up. And eventually die, of course. How would a horror movie be without deaths? Strangely enough you have to quite wait for them. But once one comes, they all come. The movie has a few scary moments, just one bit too little, but it does gain the little it loses because of the bit horror missing through it's, let's say, humorous part. It all starts once the Mexican priest, "demon slayer" appears. He brings it all. The mucho-guys start being scared, the women become responsible, and dead, it depends. The film doesn't really promote any philosophies or teachings, not seriously at least. The actors, well, they're as you would expect them to be. It's too bad it takes quite much for the movie to actually begin and once it does it also ends soon after. Directional wise it's OK. Not too brilliant, though. Not that I would have expected differently. Silly horror.

I thought the film was entertaining. I also saw it at a screening at the Los Angeles Film School.Much better than Corman's other stuff. The acting was okay, but Layon Gray and Adam Huss really carried the film. Overall well done-- will there be a demonslayer 2 ???? yeah right.