Rijndri
Load of rubbish!!
Gurlyndrobb
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Roy Hart
If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
Abegail Noëlle
While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
Michael_Elliott
Demonia (1990)** (out of 4) Five nuns are brutally murdered and five hundred years later their spirits get a chance for vengeance. Archaeologist team Professor Paul Evans (Brett Halsey) and his partner (Meg Register) begin to realize early on that something isn't right.DEMONIA is a later day Lucio Fulci film, which is actually slightly better than its reputation. By this time the Italian horror market was taking its last gasps of air so if you're expecting something that looks or feels like ZOMBIE or THE BEYOND then you're certainly going to be disappointed. With that said, if you've seen Fulci's later day films like THE GHOSTS OF SODOM then you'll be happy to see that this here is better than that.The biggest issue with DEMONIA is the same thing that haunted a lot of these films and that's the fact that there just wasn't enough money to pull everything off. The story here is an interesting one but it's never fully developed, which is really too bad. As I said, the budget was certainly very low here but Fulci still managed to build up a nice atmosphere and there's some minor gore, which his fans will enjoy. I also thought both Halsey and Register were good in their roles and they at least keep you interested in what's going on. Al Cliver (ZOMBIE) also appears briefly.DEMONIA certainly isn't a classic movie and if you're new to Fulci it's certainly not the place to start watching. With that said, there are a few interesting ideas and moments scattered throughout.
lastliberal
You know how they say that even bad sex is wonderful. Even a bad Fulci is worth the time to watch. The creator of such films as Zombie, The Senator Likes Women, and The Beyond can give us bad sex and we will never complain.Besides, this was set in Sicily, and that also makes it worth watching, even if it is 299 km from my grandfather's home.And, did I mention it is also a nunsploitation film? Liza Harris (Meg Register) had vision of nuns being killed in a séance, and now she is in the basement of a monastery in Sicily searching for ...what? She finds five crucified nuns in a sub-basement.There was a naked spirit using a spear-gun on Porter (Al Cliver). How does a ghost shoot a spear-gun. I rewound just to be sure. Yes, it was a ghost with a nice right tit.No ghost needed to take care of a couple of drunks looking for a party.Liza gets the story in flashback from a medium. Suffice it to say the nuns were naughty, and one (Paola Cozzo) had a baby, which they burned. The naughtiness was under covers, so we only get to see one right tit again. I wonder if it was the same one as the ghost.The medium gets the trademark Fulci treatment in a gruesome manner.But, the local butcher gets it bad, too, but neither gets it as bad as one of the archaeologists on the dig. Yech! The ending wasn't very clear, and probably the weakest part of the film.But, like I said, bad Fulci is still Fulci worth having.
Lotica
Demonia seems to be a movie by Lucio Fulci that I don't know about... the death scenes in this movie are corny and are not the same to other death scenes in Fulci's earlier films, mainly the ones from the late 70's to middle 80's. I think it was because of the special effects director was changed or something, I'm not sure. But the one I remember was the one scene where the guy is caught upon a trap while trying to get his son from one of the nuns or whatever, and the guy is split apart from his son tripping upon a rope or something. The effects looked terrible, I'm sorry.Otherwise, the movie was weird to me. Not saying that the movie is a piece of crap, though it could be better. The music was... well, I think it could be better. I liked the intro music, plus the music following the intro scene.So, final verdict? Well, Demonia is a mixed bag of good and bad. If you're a true Fulci fan (like me), then this is your movie. If not, then... I guess you should give it a try. Demonia, the 'What the Babuguganosh!?' moment of Fulci's career.Also, Al Cliver (Zombi 2) actually is in this movie, though he is credited as Al Clever... clever, I must say, eh? Ha ha ha... ha???
HumanoidOfFlesh
A team of archaeologists are exploring the ruins of an ancient crypt in Sicily where five heretic nuns had been stoned and crucified by superstitious villagers.One of them Liza starts to suffer terrible nightmares about the nuns and other members of the team start to die in particularly horrible ways."Demonia" is a mediocre Lucio Fulci's nunsploitation flick that offers surprisingly little amount of gore including a tongue nailed to a barrel an,eye-gouging and an "Inferno in Diretta"-style decapitation between two springy trees.Still the film is well-shot,picturesque and enjoyable enough to give it a 6 out of 10.However if you are new into Fulci I suggest watching first "The Beyond" or "City of the Living Dead".