Don't Look at the Demon

Besides a story filled with major plotholes, a weak script, and under par acting, this could've been a decent movie. However, it seemed like the writers didn't know what horror-elements they wanted to use, nor how to apply them. The editing and cgi was also quite terrible - honestly looked like a videogame from 2005. To be fair, I would've been scared if I was still 11.

If I am to mention one positive aspect of the movie, it was the location of where the movie was taking place. If used properly it could have been adding a few mystic and interesting elements - it didnt however. Missed opportunity.

So my imediate conclusion after watching the movie: I will never get that hour and a half back.

There are horror movies, and there are horror movies, and this is just another horror movie. Been there, done that. Still, for a relatively unknown Malaysian filmmaker, it's an ambitious effort and features non-local actors in the lead roles. Writer-director Brando Lee throws in everything one might have seen in other horror movies, from ghost hunters to haunted houses, possessions and occult rituals to hidden rooms with conveniently working film projectors. The story, while entertaining, is lazily developed, indulging in too many cliches and coincidences, and allowing for too many gaps in the plot. On the plus side, however, the acting is above par with Harris Dickinson giving the best performance; the film is beautifully shot and the special effects are quite impressive. And i dig the surprise ending.

This film had great potential. It was good but had some blank spots. They could have used more suspense. Harris Dickinson carries the whole movie. The movie wouldn't be worth anything without him. I am now a big fan of Dickinson. They could have used more medium psychic content. They could have used other psychics to help the storyline some. They could have done a better job with the actors in Malaysia. The ones from there got on my last nerve. This needed more back story and more suspense buildup and more use of psychics and more use of righteous over evil. Harry Dickinson is very sexy in this. He is going to be a huge star in america.

It is actually total ok , but cant say more than ok Many times with horrormovies its like someone wrote a good story but they just couldnt make a simulare good movie with it - this time its the other way around - someone did a real bad story but they really worked so hard to make it good

Acting is good, production is good , effects are good ,, but the story is just simple and fast written , and its no charm or heart in it either, more like someone just do his work and dont care so much about it

Im not so tolerant with horrormovies, if its bad I shut it of , and mostly movies ends like that ,, but I enjoyed this actually , its not blow you of the chair, but its ok.

I just got back from seeing this movie and it really wasn't that bad at all. I've never seen any of the actors in any other movies so I wasn't expecting much, but all in all I wasn't angry walking out. The story was O. K. and the demon itself was a bit of a plus. If you've like movies like Insidious or other movies dealing with ghosts or demons then you won't be dissapointed. In my opinion the best performances were by the brother characters Ben and Wolf. If you've already seen Barbarian and Smile then this is a movie you may want to go see. All I can say that it has to be better than the movie Bros, which I didn't see.