Inkubus

Inkubus (2011) is a movie I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline follows the last night a police station is open when a gruesome murder takes place and the man responsible turns himself into the station. Little do they know the killer is the demon Inkubus who can make humans do his bidding. He's about to use the police station for his own personal amusement.

This movie is directed by Glenn Ciano (Infected) in his directorial debut and stars Robert Englund (A Nightmare on Elm Street), William Forsythe (Raising Arizona), Joey Fatone (Bring it On), Jonathan Silverman (Weekend at Bernie's) and Michelle Ray Smith (Salt).

This is only worth watching because Robert Englund is awesome, and he's well used in this. His grand entry was awesome. The opening birth sequence is solid, but the kill scenes are average and the corpses are better than the actual murders. The sex scenes in this definitely could have been better. I will say the cast overall is better in name than execution due to poor writing. The ending does have a nice twist but also could have been better.

This is one of those almost good movies, as in it could have been good but isn't. I would score this a 3/10 but still recommend watching it once.

I had been looking forward to this movie sadly for over a year. I am a big fan of Robert Englund. The trailer to the movie looked interesting. Me and my buddy sat down to watch this film together. I was just wondering how the film makers ever thought during production that this was going to be a good end product? The acting (Englund aside) was dreadful. The CGI that was inserted in the film was very bad. The movie seemed to drag on with nothing interesting ever happening. My friend was begging me to turn the movie off, or fast forward to the end. We watched it beginning to end. What a mistake... it was never able to redeem any of its horrible bland qualities.

Opening with the sequence of an impending childbirth which seems to go well until it doesn't, the movie had a reasonably attention-grabbing start.

But right after, the movie completely plummets.

Shoddy production values, poor light and sound, and one implausibility after another, all variations of: "if an incubus has all these powers, then why is the entire affair not over in a couple minutes?" really mar the experience.

The actors could not save this mess. On top of that, the ending explains none of the key questions e.g. How and why did the Inkubus become suddenly vulnerable to bullets? What did the protagonist do (rather than say) to end up in an asylum? What happened in the intervening time between the police station event and the delivery?

The movie is too crappy to give much thought to these questions, though. I regret that I let its opening sequence got me to waste my time with it.

I felt as though I were watching a student's film project. I like Robert Englund (and William Forsyth). I'm wondering what they were doing in this movie and were they helping someone by being in this movie project. It was a real novice horror film. I can watch almost anything but this was just crazy bad. And very amateurish. And I wondered whether it not this was filmed on someone's iPhone... jes sayin... I will say it was entertaining. And we all know you can watch a bad, yet entertaining film. And Joey Falcons was in it - I forget which boy band he was in but, and God bless him, he should stick to singing/dancing.

If you want a movie that will scare you, this is not the movie, unless you're easily scared, or disgusted.

However, this is a nice and calm movie that twists the minds of the characters, something I do like in a horror. As a horror movie it's not high up on the scale, but as a mental game played by the devil, I think it's decent. The beginning was slightly confusing, wasn't sure if it was the past or future, but that was quickly sorted.

I do wish the director spent a little more time working on the personalities of the characters. I didn't feel like I connected with anyone, except maybe Inkubus, and that lack of connection reflected the movie. It's a nice movie to watch if you don't have anything else you want to watch, but it needs a lot of work before I would bother telling others about it.

While I think the director has done a nice job, I do think he has a long way to go.