16/07/2017

Demonwarp

                    
Bigfoot. Zombies. An alien. What more could be asked of a film? The plot (as best as I can figure it): an alien crash lands and starts being worshipped by a priest, who feeds him the hearts of topless women. The alien also turns some guy into a bigfoot who runs around and kills people who turn into zombies that come back to the alien's cave/space ship to work for him as technicians. The main characters are a small group of interchangeable teens in their mid-20s who are topless about 35% of the time. That's over a third. It's as fantastic as it sounds. 
The acting is wooden and difficult to interpret (at the start I couldn't tell if those other guys were drunk too, or if they were just that bad at acting), the writing stinks, and the plot is all over the place (several characters never even meet the main group before being killed, making their presence in the film completely pointless). The copy I saw was really warped (I guess the tape had gotten wet at some point or something) which resulted in the camera wobbling and zooming about oddly. I'm not sure how much of that was intentional to create a sense of unease (doubt it), how much was bad camerawork, and how much was damage to the copy, but whatever the case it proved to be one of the more interesting elements of viewing.
         
        
I was bored a lot of the time. Occasionally 'Demonwarp' is unintentionally hilarious (much of the final act was brilliant) but there are long stretches of filler throughout the main act. Many of the characters were totally unnecessary, and there were lots of weird twists and turns in their relationships with one another (it sort of felt like the director occasionally forgot how each character felt about the others). Overall I'd definitely watch it if you're into bad movies, but don't worry about talking throughout.
                
Demonwarp: 12.2