Howard North (Ben O'Toole) empties sewage tanks for a living, but finds a higher calling when he learns that he comes from a long line of necromancers dedicated to destroying demons. Together with fellow demon hunters Molly (Caroline Ford) and Torquel (Tess Haubrich), and with a little help from the ghost of his dead friend Rangi (Epine Bob Savea), Howard battles evil in the form of sexy soul-sucker Finnegan (Monica Belluci), who just so happens to be his mum.
I really enjoyed director Kiah Roache-Turner's debut feature, zombie flick Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead: it was fun, gory and inventive. His second movie, Nekrotronic, is wilder, packed with visual effects, and even boasts a major star in Bellucci, but it isn't anywhere near as good.
The script introduces so many different ideas that not nearly enough time can be given to adequately flesh them out, and the consistently breakneck pace makes it difficult for Roache-Turner to tell a coherent story. The result is a muddled mess of comic-book sci-fi and horror, one that isn't anywhere near as cool as it it is obviously intended to be: the action scenes are lacklustre and the gore is nowhere near as plentiful as I had hoped (with way too much CGI and not enough practical work).
4/10. I really wanted to like it more than this, but by the end of the film I'd had more than my fill of glowing lights and CGI blood, and had even grown tired of Bellucci (there's a first time for everything).
I really enjoyed director Kiah Roache-Turner's debut feature, zombie flick Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead: it was fun, gory and inventive. His second movie, Nekrotronic, is wilder, packed with visual effects, and even boasts a major star in Bellucci, but it isn't anywhere near as good.
The script introduces so many different ideas that not nearly enough time can be given to adequately flesh them out, and the consistently breakneck pace makes it difficult for Roache-Turner to tell a coherent story. The result is a muddled mess of comic-book sci-fi and horror, one that isn't anywhere near as cool as it it is obviously intended to be: the action scenes are lacklustre and the gore is nowhere near as plentiful as I had hoped (with way too much CGI and not enough practical work).
4/10. I really wanted to like it more than this, but by the end of the film I'd had more than my fill of glowing lights and CGI blood, and had even grown tired of Bellucci (there's a first time for everything).