Demon Tongue

Just so everyone knows where I am coming from, I love horror movies, be they big budget efforts, low budget schlock, or anything in between. As long as the story has, well, a story that can be followed. It doesn't have to have a beginning, middle, and end, as long as it is coherent.

Demon Tongue has this. But this is about all it has. Nothing original, and a bit thin, but OK for an indie film. 3/10 feels about right. It's below average, but not a complete stinker. Certainly better than anything I could attempt.

I have witnessed worse acting and directing.

Sets and costumes are OK.

Visual effects are also OK.

Cuts between shots are a bit choppy in places, but, again, I have seen worse.

But the sound. The sound is terrible. It is extremely inconsistent. I expect some poor audio in outdoor settings, with smaller budgets, but it alternates from voices so quiet, I cannot hear what is said (needing to up the volume more than a reasonable amount, often to no effect), then suddenly switching back to a reasonable level, which is, of course, now blaring. And it is no better in the few indoor settings, suffering from the same issues. This took me right out of the movie, and basically ruined my whole experience.

For me this is a "watch once, in the background, while doing some task by rote, to pass the time" offering.

Cheers,

+1 Star for the Boardgame, Sorry , being on the table in the opening scene.

+1 Star for the explosive opening!

-1 Star for the horrible acting

+1 Star for Gratuitous sex scene including actual partial nudity!

-1 Star for 1 act of Story stupidity!

-1 Star for a Pretty much Who Cares? ending

Okay so add up the scores and you end up with a pretty average final score. 5/10

But really most of that score is for bonus points. So really what you have here is not going to score very high on the average reviewers list. But average is about as generous of a review / description this one is going to get!

You guys it's so bad that it's enjoyable. With no good acting in sight and a script so terrible, this is The Room-esque level of an experience. Also, it admits it takes place in a room below a haunted volleyball court. Truly delightfully terrible

It's hard to recommend this movie. While you can argue that simply releasing a movie is enough to get credit this is bottom of the barrel low quality horror. The story is generic, the acting is terrible and the lighting/sound/editing all don't really come up to scratch.

I'm really not sure why this film was made since it doesn't have much to say or a sense of fun, if it was the entry for a film competition or school project I wouldn't be surprised. Bottom line is there just isn't much of value for a viewer to take away, so it's probably best to avoid.

I was lured in by the impressive movie cover for "Demon Tongue", so I was expecting to be in for at least a fairly entertaining horror movie.

However, just as with books, movie covers can be deceiving.

"Demon Tongue" was, and pardon me for being so direct, downright boring. It became clear right from the very beginning of the movie that this was going to be a stinker. And it was! I managed to just get through the flashback scene, or whatever it was supposed to be. The first part of the movie which was edited with a laughable layer to make it look like an old recording. It was just such an eyesore to bear witness to.

And when that scene was over and it went on to a college room or something, the scene with two young women, then I just turned it off and found something else to watch. I had seen enough, and there was no way that this movie would find its way back on course and actually lift itself up from the abysmal grave it had dug itself into.

The effects in the movie, at least from the about 15-20 minutes that I managed to suffer through were not particularly good. They were functional, sure, and they served their purpose well enough. But they just weren't memorable or particularly impressive.

As for the acting, well from what I saw it was as to be expected from a movie such as this turned out to be. Whether that was a result of the limitations of the script and director Gavin Rapp, or because they just had cast amateur actors, I do not know.

There is no chance of me returning to "Demon Tongue" to finish it, because it was just not interesting at all. And from what I saw and witnessed, and given the lack of entertainment here, then "Demon Tongue" scores a one out of ten stars rating from me.

Stay well clear of this one...