The Brotherhood III: Young Demons

I can put up with a lot from a movie, especially when my choices have to do with dirty dishes, Real-Trash TV and/or brushing the cat. But this one goes in the pile with "Lethal Target" and the first "Brotherhood" hoodwinker.

My comments concern the VHS version I bought "pre-viewed" for 5 bucks. I wish I could have about 3 of those back.

The first things I noted were through-the-tube voices and high school level acting. Well, I don't expect much acting in a horror movie.

The whole look and feel told me I'd picked up something from maybe as far back as twenty years ago, so imagine my surprise when I saw it was from 2002!

Some of the music didn't fit, though at some point near the end I realized it suddenly was pretty darn good. Throughout the movie I kept wondering when I'd hear some heart-jumping sounds, either music or effects, but they never came.

The rating said something about sensuality. What sensuality? Do they mean the kid showering in his hip-hugger briefs? Or maybe it was supposed to be the leather-clad couple looking as though they were auditioning for porn made by Disney.

I didn't see much in the way of violence, either. If I recall correctly the stabbings were shown in *almost* slow motion, but the camera was cut away to other scenes before any knives hit their marks.

The Plot Summary has nothing to do with what's in the movie, though at the very end we find out that, yes, this is another reincarnation-type thing. At least in the first of these "Brotherhood" movies we know what's going on from the beginning.

And I don't think there was one scream in the entire film. sigh

If you have already seen the first two films in this series, then you know what you are in for. The premise involving wizards and warlocks isn't a bad one at all, but the lousy direction is what causes this film to sink. The director seems more concerned with displaying perfectly toned male flesh instead of creating suspense and terror.

Much like the others who have left a comment, I fast forwarded through at least 50% of this film. The acting, the plot, and the special effects were all sub-par.

I purchased the DVD in the "bargain bin" at Blockbuster and paid $6.00 for it. I think that I paid $5.00 too much.

I only had two reactions as I watched the movie. The first was knowing exactly what was going to happen next (just a little too predictable), the second was saying, "Huh? That doesn't make any sense?"

The only bright spot in the whole ordeal was Kristopher Turner. I hope that he continues with his acting classes as I think he has the makings of a fine character actor.

One final thing. You see the American flag quite often in the school, yet all of the students seem to have a rather thick Canadian accent.

My rating - a 1/2 star out of 5 stars.

Probably a third of my DVD collection is composed of Horror/Fantasy/Science Fiction movies, with a growing number being direct to video. Some of those direct to video movies are pretty good. "Mimic" is one of my favorites. This one leaves a clear understanding why it never saw a big screen.

There is minimal plot (many good horror flicks have survived this); There is virtually no acting taking place (ok, so the genre isn't noted for Academy Award winning performances); the special effects, if that's what they are to be called, would embarrass an high school stage manager; and, well, there really is not a single thing to recommend this movie. The two most annoying aspects are the almost constant use of a fog machine, day and night, in what is supposed to be a public high school . . . and . . . the excessive use of slow motion which could have been eliminated and would have made this horrible (not horror) movie about a half hour shorter.

Be wiser than I, don't let this thing ever rotate across your optical laser.

All though I like how the director tries to make a lot of the movies seductive. He doesn't do a good job of it. This movie was trying to get their but It didn't work, just like when this girl with curly hair was dancing around this guy strapped to a pole and they were wearing these clothes showing some cleavage. Their's no nudity cause they possibly say the movie is PG-13 and the only nudity their is a guy who slips in a puddle of blood and takes a shower with his white underwear on. The zombies in movie were dumb/pathetic. They should make movies that aren't sci-fi. The whole movie mostly deals with this guy in a costume walking around trying to catch these guys playing a game. Well im getting ahead of myself. The story goes like this. A group of teenagers play a little game at school like really late at night. They protect themselves with fake weapons and ditzy costumes. They invite this jock to come play, but he thinks the game is cheesy as he starts to play along with it. The leader of the game just stands in the library giving the clues to find the prize. What the teenagers think is. Is that the game is all fun and games to see who can find the prize. What's really dumb as that the guy in the library keeps giving clues and everybody knows the prize is in the computer lab, but they just prance around doin' nothing. Just scaring themselves. What the game really is. Is that it's a real killing spree. The teenager makes it like it's all fun and games, but in the end he's some kind of stupid psycho. The movie is terrible. Don't waste ur money on this. The whole movie deals with running you ain't missing anything!