Don't Look at the Demon

2022

Horror / Mystery / Thriller

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 51% · 9 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 51% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.1/10 10 1122 1.1K

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Plot summary

A spiritual medium leads a paranormal investigative TV crew to a haunted home only to discover that the evil spirit she’s facing holds the key to her troubled past.

Director

Brando Lee Photo
Brando Lee

Top cast

Fiona Dourif Photo
Fiona Dourif as Jules
Jordan Belfi Photo
Jordan Belfi as Matty
Harris Dickinson Photo
Harris Dickinson as Ben
Malin Crépin Photo
Malin Crépin as Martha Benchley
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878.52 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 1
1.76 GB
1920*802
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by subxerogravity 6 / 10

Nothing special but an ok movie.

Can't really jump for joy about how good it was. All I can say is that I did like what I saw. I did not waste my time watching it. It was slow but it was not dull.Not a fan of Fiona Dourif, I just know that her dad is a horror legend (Voice of Chucky), but on her own she was interesting to watch, which is good cause she takes up a lot of screen time.It had shocking moments that I liked but musty admit were not scary.The overall story arch was kind of cool too. It's not going to wow you and I'm shocked something this mundane got into theatres, but if you are looking for something new for the Halloween season, check it out.
Reviewed by jjack929 4 / 10

Actors and Effects people did well with a weak story.

It's not the worst horror movie I've seen by a long shot, but it just doesn't work. 4/10This is what happens when you try to make a movie about demon possession based around religious beliefs that don't account for the existence of demons. It just doesn't make sense. You can't have a demon possession without a demon, can you? Well they try to in this movie.First off, we have a Buddhist monk proclaim, "There is no evil, only ignorance." Wow. I could write a thesis on the stupidity of this statement, but it's unnecessary for this. The movie centers around the spirit of an evil person lingering on and committing more evil. But I guess he's not evil, just ignorant? Nah. The monk's ignorant.Second, because it's a bait and switch, you have logical disconnects between what's happened in the past and what's happening in the present. If it's a demon, the two can be related; if it's not, and it's just an evil man lingering on, the two being related makes zero sense. Oh, and again, he's not evil, just ignorant! That must be why he can kill and torture people from beyond the grave.Finally, if you're going to use a non-Judeo-Christian faith to be the basis of your movie, and your plan is to sell it to a Western audience, you need to explain a bit of the belief system the movie is built around. Declaring, "There is no evil, only ignorance" does not sum up Buddhism, and even if it did, it doesn't make any sense in the context of what happens in this movie.All that is to say nothing of the utter grossness of desiccated stillborn children being used as a focus for evil - oh, sorry, ignorant power.Honestly some real wasted potential here, because it did some things really well and had some cool concepts. But the story doesn't make sense in the context of the "Buddhist philosophy" it's built around, and it ultimately falls flat (while proving the monk's line utterly false).
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