Paranormal Demons

The key to this no-budget no-thrills found footage movie is that you can never see any of the action. the crew behind this movie apparently discovered a glitch effect that can block out select parts of the screen, so theres no monster - just a vague shape and some quick cut shots. some blood spatter on the camera lens is another clever blur tool. also clever is the way the plot centers around debunking paranormal internet videos. if this was done well, with an actual script and actors, itd be slow-clap worthy. as it stands, its a predictably disappointing and painful watch. stay away, especially if youve ever used a functional video camera

Have never been a fan of found footage-like films, find the excessively shaky camera work that often comes with it often overused and cheaply and lazily used. Do appreciate horror however, do not have anything personal against low budget films or films dealing with the paranormal. The concept was a decent one, so there was definitely no prejudicial bias before watching 'Paranormal Demons'. Was apprehensive about it but wanted it to work at the same time.

'Paranormal Demons' unfortunately didn't work for me in any shape or form. The concept is not a new one, although decent, and 'Paranormal Demons' does nothing new or interesting with it. The tagline here compares it to the 'Paranormal Activity' and 'Friday the 13th' films, saying it's a mix of them. Don't see it and find the comparisons on the insulting side, am not a fan of the 'Paranormal Activity' franchise, which got worse with each film, but did notice a little value in all of them which can't be seen here, while enough of the 'Friday the 13th' films are much better made, more entertaining and have much more genuine dread than this ever did in the entire duration.

Like has been said before, also appreciated the effort of seeing the students fighting off the villain, but other than that there is nothing going for it.

In 'Paranormal Demons', there are no creepy visuals or no eerie or atmospheric lighting, just repetitive and gimmicky camera work, with an overused to excessiveness flickering effect that annoys and exhausts, and editing that is an insult to the word amateurish. They made the film look like a student film project that failed big time. The sound effects are some of the most annoying for any film in a long time.

'Paranormal Demons' biggest problems are the pacing and story. The pacing never comes to life and it doesn't even pick up momentum in the latter parts of the film. There is nothing scary here, no intensity, no ominous atmosphere, no broodiness or sense of dread. It's just a snail's pace slog rife with implausibility, stupid decision making, predictable and overly calculated "scares" and intelligence insulting ridiculousness, and does nothing new with an initially interesting but now gotten well stale premise.

A lot of the film feels like padded out filler with the non-horror moments containing cringe-worthy dialogue and characters that have no development and either have bland personalities or made to act dumb. Direction is flat, the villain has no real menace and the inexperience badly shows in all of the acting with no exceptions.

Summarising, very poorly done. 2/10

This project could have been tolerable if not for the needless and over-used "camera flicker" effect throughout the movie. That effect was so distracting that it ruined what could have been at least tolerable action scenes. While this was clearly a low-budget project, it did at least show the "students" trying to actually FIGHT the evil monster/killer. That was refreshing. Without the unnecessary camera flicker, this movie could have been at least a 5, which is respectable. All the cliches are there, but if you watch a movie like this you expect that.

Sure, when I sat down in 2021 to watch the 2018 movie titled "Paranormal Demons", I have to admit that my first thought was 'great, another paranormal movie'. But still, I opted to watch it, on the odd chance that writer and director David Brückner actually managed to come up with something worthwhile.

Needless to say that writer and director David Brückner didn't come up with something worthwhile here.

The storyline was so mundane and trivial that it was painful to sit through. Everything that took place throughout the course of this movie is something that has been done countless times in other movies of the same kind, more often than not also done better in other movies, mind you.

"Paranormal Demons" feels like a movie project that is something you could just as well and just as easily have made yourself. Just get a video camera, bring together a group of friends, and get a dubious costume for the entity, and you are well on your way.

This movie was filmed in a documentary manner. I don't really enjoy that, because when I sit down to watch a movie and throw my time and money after it, then I want a movie that is properly produced and have a proper movie quality to it, not something that I could have filmed myself with my digital video camera at home.

The acting in the movie was actually fair enough, but the actors and actresses had next to nothing to work with in terms of script, storyline and properly detailed characters.

As for "Paranormal Demons" being a horror movie, well I will say that the term horror is used very lightly here. There was nothing scary about "Paranormal Demons" at all, unless you consider a man wearing a bad latex mask as scary, or consider almost an hour and a half of dubious footage as scary.

"Paranormal Demons" is not a movie that I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on. Some of us suffered through it so you don't have to.

My rating of the 2021 movie "Paranormal Demons" lands on a two out of ten stars.

This was an absolute crapshow. The acting was so poor. This movie was 1 1/2 hours I can't get back. The lead actress says of a video they watch "This was very bad acting!" I almost choked at the irony. Lame, boring, not scary movie.