There's nothing like a good cheesefest like Demon Wind to reignite the senses. I haven't seen a good piece of crap like this in a while. For some reason, it reminded me of one of my favorites, Death by Dialogue. Might have been the type of camera they used, as it was around the same time. Might've been the terrible special effects or the utterly uninterested actors or the randomly inserted Casio music. Or the copious amounts of fog.

Probably the fog.

In any case, Demon Wind is so freakishly inept that it's a real joy to watch. Simply magical.

One of my favorite parts occurs about halfway into the movie. The somewhat interested lead guy has led his blank, dumb friends into certain death. His dad's old house has trapped them in some weird dimension that includes deep-voiced children, a cow skull with a Gene Simmons tongue, and herpes covered demon things. The first of their friends to die is...um, one of the random girls. Some little Pilgrim child walks up and grabs her and turns her into a doll.

Previously, her boyfriend (I think?) told her she wouldn't die. The doll tells him (as he works it with his finger) "You lied!" Then she EXPLODES.

Does anyone care? No. Does anyone say anything? No. Did anyone even notice? The boyfriend did, briefly. Then nobody cares again. To keep up the status quo, the filmmakers grabbed a few more of their friends and threw them in front of the camera. They drive in for literally no reason and almost immediately die. I don't think they even had time to say their names.

The missing music was cracking me up. It would be totally silent while everyone yakked on about something or other, demons or something who knows, then maybe halfway into the scene the "ominous" score would strike up. Shortly, it would just stop. Awesome.

The "random nudity" really is just that...with the fifteen thousand cast members I figured one of the girls would lose their top, perhaps the one young lady that moons Mr. Hero for no reason at all in the beginning. But no, it's some middle aged lady that pops out of nowhere, again, for no reason. Plus, a little bit of Cory man-ass for the ladi...who I am kidding, that wasn't for anybody.

Another bright spot is the plot...as in, there is none. There's something about a demon wind (you know, the title?) but it only happens once. If you were expecting The Happening Part 0 then you'd be sorely mistaken.

I would recommend grabbing this, but unfortunately no DVD has been released in the States. If you're in the UK you lucked out, though, so consider yourself lucky. Maybe one sweet day someone will wise up and put this puppy out for the rest of the world to suffer through.

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