Demon

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Demon

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Released Sep 9, 2016

1h 34m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Peter (Itay Tiran) receives a piece of land as a gift for his upcoming wedding. While preparing the property to build a home for his new family, he finds human remains in the ground. He decides to keep the discovery to himself so that all of the wedding arrangements can go on as planned. However, the deeper he tries to keep his secret, the more he seems to be under control of something -- or rather someone -- and from then on very strange things begin to happen.

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Critics Consensus

Ambitious and beautifully shot, Demon delivers a gripping -- and sadly final -- testament to the singular talent possessed by director/co-writer Marcin Wrona.

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Anton Bitel

Little White Lies

This is a portrait of Poland as a not-so-sweet little village, unable to move on from small-town xenophobia against Jews like Hana or modern outsiders like Piotr, even as its unresolved past returns, like a dybbuk, to reinhabit the present...

May 29, 2018

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Sara Michelle Fetters

MovieFreak.com

A paranormal descent into madness and mayhem that's hauntingly good.

Rated: 3.5/4

Oct 21, 2016

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Scott Marks

San Diego Reader

Though it's based on Piotr Rowicki's play Clinging, director Marcin Wrona's spirited staging keeps it from ever dissolving into canned theater.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 29, 2016

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Giuseppe Sedia

Kino Mania

Despite not being a particularly gory effort, but rather a Polanski-esque film, Demon shows how much Polish cinema is incomplete due to its chronic lack of solid horror non-war-based productions

Rated: 4/5

Aug 29, 2024

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

Anchored by Itay Tiran's tortured performance, Demon manages to reinvent everything you know about possession movies while also honoring everything you come to expect from the subgenre.

Rated: 4/5

Sep 20, 2023

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Jason Adams

My New Plaid Pants

an off-kilter and surreal expression of commitment's dark underbelly

Jul 14, 2021

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Dallas H

Of course, it is a great idea to start digging up a new swimming pool in the backyard during the same week as hosting your own wedding, only to uncover cursed human remains that were buried on the property in the years before. Absolutely nothing can go wrong. Oh, no! It all went wrong!

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

10/20/24

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Georgan G

3 & 1/4 stars. The creepy factor got more intense as the plot developed. The music is part ethnic, part scary. The acting is very emotional. Part history, part antisemitic, part mysticism. Had this film had English voice-over I would have given it a higher rating. The subtitles were white on a light background which was unhelpful.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

08/07/23

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jjjjjj j

A really good horror film all around. An engaging plot, good acting, well shot. In most horror films I think you almost always know where the film is going but not here. In some ways though it had many archetypal elements of horror it also did not follow any of the real basic plot structures. Example; where as a ghost story normally tries to tell you the story of the former ghosts life this instead does not to have a bigger more profound impact. I really like this film and would highly recommend.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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KARL O

Too scrappy and sloppy and hysterical to be particularly good. Heavy handed metaphor abounds. There are plenty of less self important movies desk with the themes. And thanks to The Shining for a ridiculous rip off ending. Note to critics - good intentions don't always make for good movies / stop the appeasing. Did viewers honestly consider this a horror movie? Horrible perhaps.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/22/22

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Audience Member

Gave it a star for some decent acting, but this movie just is not that good. One or two scenes with good atmosphere, and that's it. It just builds up and then meanders around in a very boring way, finishing with an extremely unsatisfying, anticlimactic ending. Really don't get what others see in this film. Waste of time

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/05/23

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Audience Member

One of the best ghost stories I have ever seen.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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Andrzej Grabowski

Father of Zaneta

Adam Woronowicz

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Synopsis

Peter (Itay Tiran) receives a piece of land as a gift for his upcoming wedding. While preparing the property to build a home for his new family, he finds human remains in the ground. He decides to keep the discovery to himself so that all of the wedding arrangements can go on as planned. However, the deeper he tries to keep his secret, the more he seems to be under control of something -- or rather someone -- and from then on very strange things begin to happen.

Director: Marcin Wrona
Producer: Marcin Wrona
Screenwriter: Marcin Wrona, Pawel Maslona
Distributor: The Orchard
Production Co: Magnet Man Film
Rating: R (Some Sexuality/Nudity|Language)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Polish
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 9, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 6, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $103.0K
Runtime: 1h 34m

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