After a 20 year wait, DEMON RESURRECTION finally arrives on Blu-ray, in a newly restored, remastered edition. Get it at Amazon:
Blu-ray: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9WF5Y5Z DVD: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9WJ243H
Very happy to announce that my film, DEMON RESURRECTION, is now streaming free on the official ROKU channel! Roku makes an excellent presentation of the film, with a sharp, vivid, detailed picture, a good, strong audio track and minimal advertising. In watching the film again for the first time in quite awhile, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. We did a damn good job on DEMON RESURRECTION, if I say so myself, and I’ll be forever grateful to our brilliant cast and our terrific crew, especially our producers, Frank Cilla and Ed Wheeler. Everyone made an indespensible contribution to the finished film and I’m very proud of what we were able to accomplish. Now all we have to do is get the word out so more people see it and it finally becomes the cult hit it deserves to be, so spread the word and share the link(s) below!
DEMON RESURRECTION free with ads on THE ROKU CHANNEL:
https://therokuchannel.roku.com/details/bc2c32c95f65993230b5d51a825e4ff5/demon-resurrection
Or buy/rent it on AMAZON PRIME VIDEO:
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Or watch it free with ads on TUBI TV:
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DEMON RESURRECTION is on TubiTV. Watch it free now:
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DEMON RESURRECTION has finally arrived on TubiTV. Watch it free now:
https://tubitv.com/movies/597288/demon-resurrection
DEMON RESURRECTION ★★★½ Review by Andrew Liverod, August 10, 2015
A young ex-cult member gives birth to a demon, whilst all around her zombies threaten the lives of her friends.
Demon Resurrection was shot on digital but has a real SOV feel to it. Maybe it's down to the 4:3 aspect ratio, but you could really imagine this being shot in the 80's. Where a lot of low-budget underground horror films take the easy route of cheesiness to counter any claims that the film is silly, Demon Resurrection has the balls to take itself seriously. There are no crappy jokes, no over-the-top performances, no gross-out scenes for the sake of it. Instead writer/director William Hopkins takes several elements from other films to create a decent and believable plot, builds atmosphere, and gives us a nice pay-off at the end. This is a film that wears it's influences on it's sleeve, from the one building location of Night of the Living Dead, the impregnation and subsequent birth of Rosemary's Baby, to the feel of Hammer's "Witchcraft" films The Devil Rides Out and To the Devil a Daughter. The influences don't stop there, there's also the cosmic horror of Lovecraft and even a Cthulhu-like beast makes an appearance, admittedly in book form, but it all adds depth.
Sure the film looks amateur but the director has a real feel for film making and there are some really nice shot choices. Occasionally you can tell that he was limited by lenses when he has trouble framing several subjects in an interior shot, but really, who gives a shit. The editing is nice as well, I have no idea if more than one camera was used but it really feels like there were several just like in a more expensively shot movie. The performances are well above the standard of usual low-budget films and no-one stands out as being particularly crappy. The sound can get a little muffled and fuzzy in places but otherwise it's nice and clean. The soundtrack is subtle, unobtrusive and adds to the creepy enclosed atmosphere. The video effects were minimal and well used; pretty much all the special effects were practical with CGI being limited to a green fuzz that surrounds the zombies and a couple of other scenes.
On to the blood and guts. The zombie creatures were really quite good. Sure you can tell they were wearing rubber masks and but they had a sort of endearing Rawhead Rex feel to them. I loved them! The blood was standard corn syrup and the guts were either good latex or pig innards. We've got some typical disembowelling (a windowpane evisceration was a stand-out), a broken zombie arm piercing a neck, the demon baby birthing scene (reminiscent of Alien), some boob chewing, and something you don't see in many films... someone pissing their pants. There are a couple of naked scenes but these are handled well and don't come over as softcore porn shoehorned in to sell DVDs.
Demon Resurrection has a good plot, decent effects, tension, jeopardy, and a nice twist at the end. Overall, really good fun for SOV junkies but glossy Platinum Dunes multiplex horror fans should stay clear.
You can read this and other reviews on Andrew's blog: https://tormentedimp.blogspot.com/2015/08/demon-resurrection-2009.html
DEMON RESURRECTION ★★★★ Review by Reed Waller, April 12, 2017
They Don't Make Them Like This Anymore?
I didn't know anything about this movie, but took a chance. It has a zero-budget look and feel, but I didn't realize at first that was on purpose. Bunch of very assorted "friends" drive to isolated cabin to perform an intervention on girl with weird boyfriend. They're a pretty self-righteous lot. But they quickly discover that drugs are not the problem here. He has been pursuing a dangerous satanic cult and she was taken as a member. And they want her back! What follows is a classic cult-of-the-dead movie that rises above its budget, with taut direction, plenty of plot twists, taut cinematography that keeps all the nasty action close-up and personal and genuinely upsetting, surprisingly good acting, and some very effective practical effects helping the cast and crew build the familiar material to a fever-pitch, all-out scream-a-thon with some truly nasty gory kill scenes and -- most of all -- peak moments of true hair-raising in-your-face horror, the likes of which I haven't seen since the original Night of the Living Dead or Evil Dead. I was impressed.
"Demon Resurrection is a good example of a film that wants to honor its 1970s and early 1980s horror roots without mindlessly aping the surface look of those films. Too often modern ‘grindhouse’ movies think they can throw some digital film damage over their shoddily made work and call it retro. Demon Resurrection takes its plot and a few visual cues from films like Burial Ground (1981) and The Blind Dead movies but it is not interested in just copying them under the guise of homage..."
"Toth is a fun villain, he is the kind of robe-wearing Satan worshiping baddie that is just as much of a delight to watch as it is to see him get his comeuppance. He meets his end in a fashion that wouldn’t be out of place in an E.C. horror comic."
"Demon Resurrection isn’t afraid to put its characters through the wringer, and throughout the runtime, I was not exactly sure who was going to make it to the end. I did really like Laurie Miller as Kate.... I thought she made a believably frightened and desperate character and I found myself rooting for her to survive her ordeals with the undead."
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