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  Review by Tony the Terror 666 ★★★ 2

  Once again, we have a movie that almost everyone seems to hate and I just don’t get it? I mean, it’s no masterpiece and it’s nothing original, but damn y’all it’s not that bad! It does say “produced by James Wan” and not “directed by” so I’m not sure that anyone should have gone in with high expectations.

  What we do get is a decent and entertaining little supernatural horror story that’s part found footage and honestly I’m just glad it wasn’t ALL found footage because I’m kinda over the whole subgenre. I mean I’ll still watch a new found footage movie but I’d rather not...but I mean I will.

  Also, this has Frank Grillo and Maria Bello plus potential candidate…

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  Review by jasmin 🌙 ★★

  Well, hi there.
  James Wan presents a mid horror movie.

  A generic title and a generic poster fight against a slightly more promising premise: a police officer and a psychologist investigate the deaths of a group of people that died - were killed? - while trying to summon ghosts.
  This was quite intriguing and even with the low rating I wanted to give it a fair chance.
  Frank Grillo (The Purge: Anarchy) and Maria Bello (Coyote Ugly) star in this along with (well not really *along* but!) Aaron Yoo, who was Chewie in the Friday the 13th Reboot! Great cast thus far.

  I quite digged the parts of what happened that were essentially found footage. Whenever I watch a found…

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  Review by Helen_S ★ 5

  I really wish I could get rid of this started so I'll finish attitude.

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  Review by {Todd} ★½ 1

  "Can you take me higher?" -Creed (NIF), idk this movie feels like it needs a creed song.

  Frank Grillo is cool...I dig that guy. Maria Bello...love her... the movie Demonic...nope. #neverdemonic2020.

  Part found footage, part flashbacks, part paranormal detective story...100% shit. Kids visit a house with a murderous past and stuff happens. It feels like this film was edited and fixed and changed around a lot. Maria Bello and Frank Grillo are in this a sufficient amount but most of their stuff is separate from the teens and they are each in a bunch of one-shots when they are talking to the teens so I think they weren't actually with them. Tons of ADR exposition added in.

  Yet another film that should have been turned into part of the Hellraiser or Cloverfield franchises.

  Recommended to: People high on cocaine, trying to burn off tension, a movie to play in the background when you are trying to break up a bromance.

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  Review by Keith Goulette ★ 7

  Dear Directors/Producers/Whoeverthefuck,

  When you advertise your movie as being "Presented by" a respected horror director, the only thing it tells me is that your movie is going to be a pile of shit.

  Remember when Guillermo Del Toro "presented" "Mama"?

  I rest my case.

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  Review by Alan 🐳 ★ 3

  Apparently they're still making movies with the "gadget-obsessed Asian guy" stereotype in 2015. Fucking abysmal

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  Review by London ★

  An attempt at thrills is made by making this movie told through a nonlinear way, jumping back and forth between the timeline. While this can be used incredibly well in some cases, here it makes the film much much worse.

  The detective work scenes were not good. But they weren't abysmal. They may have been bad but at the very least they were watchable. However the ghost hunters scenes were awful in every way. Poorly acted, shot, and directed. They were also unbelievably boring. This movie is less than 90 minutes, but it drags around every single corner.

  The ending and the detective work scenes are the only reason this isn't a half star rating. They weren't good, and in fact they were very stupid, but they were fun engaging stupid at the very least.

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  Review by FoofDeckman ★

  This was one of those random Netflix watches. I didn’t know what it was and someone turned it on randomly, not me. I sat there and watched it and was mostly bored and upset by the lazy filmmaking. 

  This movie feels like it had no artistic intention and was just there to make money. Some of the performances were okay but the dialogue was terrible. The story was really hard to follow with how many flashbacks and flash forwards there was. 

  I don’t really have anything else to say, this movie was uninteresting and uninspired. Go watch something else it’s Halloween damn it.

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  Review by bree1981 ★★

  A possession/murder mystery movie with a paper thin plot and ludicrous ending. Our paper thin, cliche ridden plot see's a group of college kids go to a scary old house which was once the sight of a notorious mass murder to film themselves summoning spirits. Things obviously go very wrong and by the time local cop Mark Lewis (Frank Grillo) arrives at the scene there are 3 dead, 2 missing and John Mathews (Dustin Milligan) is the only one who knows what happened but he is in a state of shock so psychologist Dr Klein (Maria Bello) is called in to try and get to the bottom of the mess.
  First up, the movie features a pretty decent cast but…

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  Review by DM05 ★★

  Cheap, lazy filmmaking. Dumb plot and an even dumber ending.

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  Review by Robert Berlin ★★ 4

  HORRORx52 (2022)

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  A bunch of unlikable and/or uninteresting characters head out to an old house in Louisiana to contact the dead. Whether they succeed or not is up for debate, but they definitely got themselves killed one way or the other in that spooky old house. We follow a bunch of crime scene investigators as they interview the sole survivor of the ghost hunt and by doing so we slowly learn what happened out there in Louisiana. Yep.

  This is competently made, which is honestly just a code word for me watching and neither hating it nor liking it. It does all the supernatural stuff that you'd expect. People being pulled away by something invisible. Scary animals…

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  Review by Travis Lytle ★★½ 2

  Combining a hodge-podge of story points and stylistic elements, the biggest crime of Will Canon's "Demonic" is that it is completely forgettable. Part police procedural, part found-footage paranormal documentary, the story revolving around the deaths of said documentarians is compelling. The production is suitable, and there are fits of violence and atmosphere to be enjoyed by horror fans. Again, however, there is nothing worth remembering here; and even the worthy things the film does are all too fleeting.