As a lark before a party on Halloween, two teenagers dig up a gargoyle statue. However, they unleash a murderous demon.As a lark before a party on Halloween, two teenagers dig up a gargoyle statue. However, they unleash a murderous demon.As a lark before a party on Halloween, two teenagers dig up a gargoyle statue. However, they unleash a murderous demon.
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Traci Lera-Michelin
- Rhonda
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Peter Senerchia
- Rock
- (as Tazz)
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- ConnectionsReferenced in Best of the Worst: Suburban Sasquatch (2017)
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Bores then gores
Soul of the Demon is one of the few films I've already seen from the Tomb of Terrors box set and I remember it being pretty good. It starts out with police cleaning up a gory murder scene over the credits including bloody murder weapons, shreds of flesh with moving disembodied eyeballs and bodies laying under bloody sheets. Two kids dig up a demonic statue and are warned by a guy with really bad skin to put it back. They don't of course and later on some teens have a séance invoking the demon, Astaroth whose soul resides in the statue. 50 minutes in and the movie picks up as the demon precedes to slaughter the houseful of teens. This is were the movie delivers with some great low budget gore. A head explodes (unfortunately it's too dark to see much) splattering brain matter over a woman who is then elevated above a bed and she is brutally ripped in two in an awesome, gruesome gore scene. There's also a stick through the eye and out the back of the skull, a woman sawed through the hoo-hah (not very graphic), a twisted neck, a head cut in half with the top half still having the eyes moving, a nasty stomach ripping open to spill guts Fulci style with the body ending up in two pieces and a hand plunged into a man's back with his spine being torn out. While not a total gorefest these last 25 minutes are blood drenched and worth the doldrums of most of the rest of the movie. The effects are quite good for the budget level.
Soul of the Demon would make a good double feature with Fatal Exam, recently released in a box set by Vinegar Syndrome. Both have similar plots involving demonic activity in a house and are pretty slow for most of the runtime. Both pick up towards the end though Soul of the Demon delivers much better bloodshed while Fatal Exam is much longer but its "boring" parts are more interesting including lots and lots of Pepsi drinking. Both also have some hilariously bad but endearing demon "animation". This being SOV is probably why the snobs at Vinegar Syndrome haven't released it yet.
Soul of the Demon would make a good double feature with Fatal Exam, recently released in a box set by Vinegar Syndrome. Both have similar plots involving demonic activity in a house and are pretty slow for most of the runtime. Both pick up towards the end though Soul of the Demon delivers much better bloodshed while Fatal Exam is much longer but its "boring" parts are more interesting including lots and lots of Pepsi drinking. Both also have some hilariously bad but endearing demon "animation". This being SOV is probably why the snobs at Vinegar Syndrome haven't released it yet.
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- milkhole213
- Oct 10, 2021
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