The Demonologist

Woeful acting , story , camerawork.

Only saving grace are the makeup effects and a fair amount of eye candy.

Being able to achieve a modicum of suspension of disbelief is crucial when watching horror and movies with supernatural elements. Here though, the characters are just unbelievable, they do not behave like any normal human exposed to the demonic/angelic would. And a blind medium/tarot card reader? Using a white "seeing cane" in her own living room? good grief that was just cringe. Even the cop on crime scenes is silly. The main character walks around with the actual evidence instead of photos of evidence? Yeah, that would happen. The characters are 1 dimensional, and it is next to impossible to feel for them, even the fiance of the hero, you just don't care when she is in danger, it's really that bad as far as characters go. The dialogue is bad and cheesy. It's a shame really, it could have been good with a better director and editor.

I came into this film thinking it was going to be a slash 'em up horror, gore porn film with a tough guy protagonist fighting demons, but ended up getting a lot more. The Demonologist is actually a smart and suspenseful murder mystery of sorts with supernatural demon elements. The characters were well written and the actors did their job perfectly with the material. The twists and turns were certainly enough to keep my interest throughout and found it an enjoyable film to watch. A small caveat; the movie was obviously made on a tight budget and some of the production value and VFX betray this, but it didn't ruin the experience for me.

Tried to watch this, it seemed like an OK low-budget horror. But, if you set your volume to suit the screams in the horror parts, the actors are completely unintelligible. The version I watched also had no subtitles. I love to watch low-budget titles but there are some details that have to be paid attention to.

This looked kind of good but whoa what a disappointment. I'll be surprised if you get through the fist half hour watching such bad acting before you have to quit. Just plain awful.