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The film was not super horrible as it had a rather good premise, nice ideas and rather good effects; however, it is all undercut by shoddy motivations, pointless character tropes and just flat out bad acting. It is a film, that I had never heard of which is surprising seeing as how I love watching horror films, but this one obviously flew under the radar. At its core is a bit of an Evil Dead rip off with a dash of Demons and Night of the Demons, but does do a few things different that keep it interesting, that is, until the crappy characters ruin any momentum the film tries to pick up.

The story has a farmhouse under assail back in like 1929 by horrifying forces. It claims the lives of most of the family with the exception of one, whose son wishes to return to the farmhouse to figure out what happened. He assembles a group of friends and they arrive to find the place in shambles, though, when the main character looks through the door he sees the inside of a house, even though it is only the frame when looked upon on the outside. Soon evil forces assail the group and they have to survive the night as the demons come for their souls!

Sounds like an interesting idea and I think the story has some good in it, with the exception of the characters. Why the main character feels compelled to even bother going to this place is a mystery as he gives the vague, "I need to find out who I am" answer. Okay, but why do you apparently need every friend you have and their girlfriends too as well as an ex of one of the girls who is just going to create tension with one of your other friends? None of these friends are detectives or anything, so why does he feel the need to drag so many of them to this farm? Then the acting at times is so bad and the reactions idiotic! A girl vanishes and is seemingly turned into a doll, the boyfriend promptly throws down and it explodes! The reaction, very nonchalant. We have a frame of a house, but you can see the inside as it was years ago! The reaction, I couldn't even tell if they even realized anything!

So, a movie with a good premise shot down by horrible characters, a stupid twist and a few lingering questions. Happens all too often in horror films, as I fear many suffer from the fact an ending is not thought up when creating the story until the end and it kind of gets thrown in at the last second. I find, you should create an ending first and work your story towards it rather than craft a good idea and figure out the ending later. Also, I am all for having plenty of victims to kill, but the reasoning behind the main character bringing so many friends to this excursion seems forced. He could have easily came alone with his girlfriend or maybe one other couple, but he apparently invites eight people not including himself or his girlfriend. You just need better reasoning for so many to get together, like in Night of the Demons where it is a party or the film Demons where it is a premier of a film. The story just does not work, though some of the ideas are sound; however, all that being said, it was an interesting watch.

The best description I can find in my head for this film is a mix of Fulci and the Evil Dead, but a movie that makes way less sense. Yes, a film with less sense of plot than The Beyond and none of the aspiration toward art. And yet there's so much to like!

In 1931, we see a body burned on a cross in the front yard. There's another in the hallway and plenty of paintings of Jesus, as we hear singing about being washed in the blood of the lamp. We discover that a woman and her husband are trying to hide from demons. Instead, the husband transforms into a demon and kills her.

Fast forward to 1991 and Cory is dealing with the suicide of his father. He's the grandson of the people we saw in the opening and has decided to go back to the farmhouse where they died. Often in these posts, I try and give advice. Here's a new piece: if your family has a weird supernatural death or disappearance in its history, just leave it alone. Don't go back to the cabin. Don't go into the woods. Don't go to the farmhouse. Just don't.

He puts together a gang of his friends to hang out at the farmhouse, but of course a fog rolls in. And some demons. And lots of death. The farmhouse has a shield that keeps the demons out, but one by one, the teens are turned into demons. Luckily, they find some daggers that can kill the demons. Unluckily, the demon's master arrives and they need to do much more to defeat him.

That said, where you'd expect things to make sense, Demon Wind goes in a much stranger direction. Like when Cory mentions he has been in a gas station before in a dream, we get to see that dream - in which he's holding a big book while talking to his grandmother. Naked. Buck ass naked.

Also, the kids in these films have weird interconnected relationships. Like Cory's girlfriend, Elaine used to date his best friend Dell. He greets her by kissing her directly on the lips and then high fives Cory. As you do. Dell's new girlfriend, Terry, has an ex-boyfriend named Chuck, who brings his girlfriend Stacy, his magic tricks and an arsenal of roundhouse kicks. I can only imagine that if these kids all worked in a mall together, they'd all have sex in the same room like Chopping Mall. Only Jack and Bonnie seem like they aren't Eskimo brothers or sisters with someone else.

Despite warnings from old creepy men at gas stations - hello, Friday the 13th - and dead bodies and evil statements in blood on the walls, everyone acts like things are as normal as possible. It's not just wooden acting. It's literally like nothing phases these kids.

Bonnie reads the words off the wall a- "Now Satan shall walk" in Latin - and an explosive chicken shoots out of the oven and almost kills everyone. You read that one right. An explosive chicken. Somehow, Bonnie instinctively knows how this all works and has one request: when she dies, please don't bury her here.

Also - The Fog (or the fog) covers the town, making sure that every escape attempt brings them right back to the farmhouse. And then three little girls take Bonnie, who disappears, leaving behind a burning baby doll.

Everyone decides that they will stay in the farmhouse for protection. Whereas in a film like Night of the Living Dead you'd batten down the hatches and board up the windows, these kids clean the house. Yes, in the face of certain death, the first thing they decide to do is some spring cleaning.

Then another couple just randomly shows up! Demon Wind doesn't just go off the rails. It throws the rails off a cliff and follows them into the abyss.

The final act of this film just gets more and more bizarre. There's gunplay. Demons feel up women and trying to get them off just by touching their breasts. Cow skulls eat faces. A female demon strips in the front yard, begging for the guys to come out and have sex, at which point they look at one another and say, "Demon," like this is some demented Bud Lite commercial. And oh yeah - Cory transforms into a demon himself to battle the final boss.

There's some decent gore. Some horrible acting. And no relation to the normal world in which you live and breathe. I often joke that there are some films that I just won't recommend to normal people. Demon Wind is one of those films. But to my friends that I trust, to those that can effortlessly deal with trifling concerns like plot, motivation or dealing with multiple dream sequences, I'll give this a recommendation.

DEMON WIND is an American B-movie about a bunch of kids who head off to the archetypal old abandoned farmhouse in order to investigate a historical mystery: the death of one of the character's grandparents. While there, they accidentally summon up a whole host of demons, who proceed to take over the members of the party one at a time. I can report that Vinegar Syndrome have done an excellent job in transferring this film to high definition, making it look the best that it's ever going to look, and that high quality helps to make it more enjoyable. Seen uncut, this is gruesome little enterprise more than a little inspired by NIGHT OF THE DEMONS. It's essentially a typical horror flick as dumb characters get gorily dispatched, one at a time, by a gang of rubber-faced demons. The special effects are quite remarkable and very ghastly looking. Expect cheesy one-liners, a moment of gratuitous nudity, and more twist endings than you can shake a stick at. It's cheap and cheesy for sure, but cheerful with it, and that enjoyment rubs off on the viewer.

In 1931, two grandparents fight to survive a demon-infested farmhouse. One grandparent gets possessed who frequently vomits and the other drops a snow globe which blows up the entire farmhouse. Cut to the "Present day," where Cory is plagued by awkward dreams and demands answers about the death of his grandparents. Cory and his obnoxious friends set out to the farmhouse to find answers.

The landscape cinematography is nice. The gross special makeup effects are effective.

One of the most confusing and idiotic "Evil Dead" wannabes ever seen, in addition "Demon Wind" is filled with nonstop cheesiness and one-liners. For instance, one of Cory's friends stabs a demon in the eye. The demon reverts back to human form, then becomes a teenage, then a baby, and finally a dove. What!? Moments like this are throughout the movie. This "so-bad-it's-good" movie is quite indescribable.