sometimes you are watching a film and hating every second but you stick it out so your hating will be well informed and at full power. this was it for meit’s unclear what this film was aiming for, but it ultimately came across as more bizarre than frightening. the plot felt convoluted, the pacing dragged on longer than necessary, and the acting was disappointingly poor. by the time it ended, it left you simply relieved that it was over.

sometimes you are watching a film and hating every second but you stick it out so your hating will be well informed and at full power. this was it for meit’s unclear what this film was aiming for, but it ultimately came across as more bizarre than frightening. the plot felt convoluted, the pacing dragged on longer than necessary, and the acting was disappointingly poor. by the time it ended, it left you simply relieved that it was over.

you literally need a second movie to make it make sense

you literally need a second movie to make it make sense

Pretty cool creature effects! It filled my need to see Alien-esque slime and gore.

Pretty cool creature effects! It filled my need to see Alien-esque slime and gore.

Essentially just a special effects tour The Demon Disease is a bit of a perplexing entry in Shudder’s line-up of horror hits, leaving me bewildered at how a movie featuring a giant practical demon fetus growing out from a man’s weird pimple-like wound can be boring. Not boring in a “oh god this is so endlessly pretentious I think I might scream” like Oddity but more like “oh god this is so unremarkable in just about every way my dog could write it.” It’s the kinda movie I can’t quite call bad, especially with how much genuine effort went into it; it could be the clearly no-budget presentation, sporting a cast that just feels like the cinematic equivalent of mowing the lawn for your neighbor to make like — $20 bucks, but something is telling me that this filmmaker didn’t have a great idea for a script, just a series of really cool special effect/horror sequence ideas he couldn’t rationalize spending the time, yet alone money on unless it was in the context of an actual movie, even if said movie has the lowest budget presentation they could manage without entirely making the audience stop taking it seriously. Usually, a low budget is something I can over-look, hell, some horror films even thrive with it (i.e. Eraserhead, Tetsuo The Iron Man, the whole analog horror, slasher & found footage sub-genre’s etc.). This economy, especially here in America fucking sucks, & usually these successful low budget endeavors are in the hand of an extremely talented rising set of stars aligning enough to make something at least somewhat affected for the majority of the audience. This doesn’t seem to, as everything from the cinematography to the performances comes across as “my first no-budget short film” instead of something backed by an actually popular publishing company with literally the special effects being the only meat on it’s bones. That’s why I haven’t even mentioned the narrative yet, because if they didn’t think about it, why should I?

That fucking demon baby though? That fucking rocks. More that with a bigger budget, & less of… whatever this narrative is.

Essentially just a special effects tour The Demon Disease is a bit of a perplexing entry in Shudder’s line-up of horror hits, leaving me bewildered at how a movie featuring a giant practical demon fetus growing out from a man’s weird pimple-like wound can be boring. Not boring in a “oh god this is so endlessly pretentious I think I might scream” like Oddity but more like “oh god this is so unremarkable in just about every way my dog could write it.” It’s the kinda movie I can’t quite call bad, especially with how much genuine effort went into it; it could be the clearly no-budget presentation, sporting a cast that just feels like the cinematic equivalent of mowing the lawn for your neighbor to make like — $20 bucks, but something is telling me that this filmmaker didn’t have a great idea for a script, just a series of really cool special effect/horror sequence ideas he couldn’t rationalize spending the time, yet alone money on unless it was in the context of an actual movie, even if said movie has the lowest budget presentation they could manage without entirely making the audience stop taking it seriously. Usually, a low budget is something I can over-look, hell, some horror films even thrive with it (i.e. Eraserhead, Tetsuo The Iron Man, the whole analog horror, slasher & found footage sub-genre’s etc.). This economy, especially here in America fucking sucks, & usually these successful low budget endeavors are in the hand of an extremely talented rising set of stars aligning enough to make something at least somewhat affected for the majority of the audience. This doesn’t seem to, as everything from the cinematography to the performances comes across as “my first no-budget short film” instead of something backed by an actually popular publishing company with literally the special effects being the only meat on it’s bones. That’s why I haven’t even mentioned the narrative yet, because if they didn’t think about it, why should I?

That fucking demon baby though? That fucking rocks. More that with a bigger budget, & less of… whatever this narrative is.