Demon Wind

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Demon Wind
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Directed byCharles Philip Moore
Written byCharles Philip Moore
Produced by
  • Michael Bennett
  • Peter Collins
  • Sandy Horowitz
  • Paul Hunt
Starring
  • Eric Larson
  • Francine Lapensée
  • Rufus Norris
  • Jack Forcinito
  • Stephen Quadros
  • Mark David Fritsche
  • Sherry Leigh
Cinematography Thomas L. Callaway
Edited byChristopher Roth
Music byBruce Wallenstein
Distributed by
  • Demon Wind Productions Ltd.
  • United Filmmakers
Release date
  • July 20, 1990 (1990-07-20)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Demon Wind is a 1990 American horror film directed by Charles Philip Moore. The film concerns a group of friends who travel to an old farm, and soon find they cannot leave as a mysterious fog sets in. [1]

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Synopsis

In 1931, a body is burned on a cross. On a farm, a woman named Regina attempts to barricade a door, from where beyond, demons try to enter. Her husband George transforms into a demon instead and kills her.

Sixty years later, after the suicide of his father, a young man named Cory, the grandson of Regina and George, and his girlfriend Elaine, along with a group of their friends, travel up to the farm, so that Cory can figure out what happened to his grandparents. They are attacked by a band of vicious demons. When the kids try to escape, a mysterious fog brings them back to the farm, protected by a shield that prevents the demons from entering the house. One by one, the kids become possessed by the demons, but manage to fight them off with a pair of daggers they find, which is the only thing that will kill them. [2] [3] Eventually only Cory and his girlfriend Elaine remain alive. The two discover that Cory is able to defeat the evil by transforming into a higher being. The battle nearly ends them both, but they are able to win. As they flee and return to civilization a possessed townsperson watches them from the hills, implying that they did not completely defeat the evil.

Cast

Production

Demon Wind was filmed in 1989 in Thousand Oaks, California. [4] [5]

Release

Demon Wind premiered in Germany on July 20, 1990, followed by a VHS release in the United States by Prism Entertainment in conjunction with Paramount Home Video on September 13, 1990. [5] The release featured a 3D lenticular video cover. [4]

In October 2017, Vinegar Syndrome released a 2K restoration of the film on DVD and Blu-ray. [sources 1]

Demon Wind can be watched in its entirety in the video game High on Life , [12] featuring a full-length commentary by Red Letter Media. [13] [ non-primary source needed ]

Reception

A writer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram gave the film a score of one star. [14] Matt Donato reviewed the film for SlashFilm, calling it "an impossibly rewarding, continuous grab bag of genre absurdity that is as flummoxing as it is utterly transcendent". [11] Joe Bob Briggs screened the movie as part of The Last Drive-In on Shudder, calling it "the only haunted house, time-travel, vomit-spewing demon zombie apocalypse, multi-generational satan worship martial arts film." [15]

Notes

  1. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

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